Ooh! I always fancied doing the rally driving thing, but I have to settle for 3 points and £100 fine for doing 34 in a 30 zone.
Do let us know how it goes.
Why Enut BTW? I'm guessing it's not because you go crackers when you take methylenedioxymethamphetamine tablets....
The rally driving was great fun, although totally alien to me. I was taught by my father who was a class 1 police driver for many years and it was instilled in me to keep the car under control at all times, the rally driving was the opposite. The car (a rally prepped GT86) was rarely under complete control, certainly when I was driving it, and there was less grip than on the worst of public B roads, in the wet, with mud on them, and leaves, and gravel, and pot holes etc etc. Two 20 minute sessions on mud/gravel/tarmac stages with an instructor trying to get the best out of each student, the right lines (tougher to hit an apex if the car is sliding all the way through the corner), handbrake turns and learning to control understeer, oversteer, drifting and the correct application of power etc etc. Great fun but I was physically drained after 40 minutes. As a quite experienced road driver I felt way out of my depth but I was getting the hang of it by the time we finished. I might well give it a longer go when I have time, they do 1/2 day and full day courses and I'd hope that I would get the hang of it much better with a bit more time.
Points wise I've only ever had 3 points, for 70 in a 60 at 11 pm with very little traffic about (nabbed by a police car following me). I did however get a 7 day ban for doing 61 in a 30 once. In my defence the road had always been a 30 and I was overtaking a slower car when I saw flouro jackets in the distance, I actually sped up to make sure I could complete the overtake before I got to any incident, turns out they were police officers with a speed gun! 'What speed were you doing young man?' 'About 60', 'What's the speed limit?' '60' , 'no, it's 30' ''no, the 30 starts here, where you're standing', 'No it doesn't, we moved it up to the roundabout a month ago' 'oh, s**t!' I went to court, was advised to plead not guilty by my father (a now retired traffic copper), as there was no reason to change the road from a 60 to a 30. Duty solicitor put me right and said I couldn't plead not guilty as I was guilty, I could only plead mitigating circumstances. Magistrate gave me a week ban 'treat it as a holiday' he said, I very nearly got myself in contempt for telling him what I thought of that comment but bit my lip. The usher told me afterwards that they couldn't let me off as they had done 70 people for speeding on that piece of road in the last month and if they let me off they would have to let all the others off! As you can tell, I'm still bitter
Oh and Enut? It's just my surname backwards, nothing more sinister.
Author