dodgy drivers...

And Japan.

Except where it puts you in more danger by crossing into the oncoming lane.

I dragged the slider bar across to get the gist of it.

No. I do and sometimes some of the other side as well as all of my own.

Not that there's any Trafpol to see it...

-- Conor

The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.

Exactly. You can go significantly quicker if you use all of the available tarmac - partly for the better lines, but mainly for the improved visibility it gives you.

And not relevant because here we can't see the speedometer.

It's the "apparently" bit, though, isn't it?

But the difference is that posting a video of some driving isn't the same as people witnessing a given car using both lanes.

Adopting what the driver believes to be the racing line (for most idiots on the road that means cutting the corner and running wide under power on the exit no matter the road or conditions) is best left for Gran Turismo / Forza...

Yes and it'll still happen.

Unfortunately in the last ten years the safety nannies, or road planners, have put solid white lines to prevent people from using both lanes, planted hedges and trees, or in the example of many A1 roundabouts, put up great big fences to block visibility and make people slow down.

There are occasions where using both lanes helps visibility, but it's not so simple. If you're using the opposite lane to improve visbility, your speed is governed by not just your own car's ability to stop, but the potential HGV just outside of your vision, too. In most cases this slows you down.

Being able to use the full road to enhance progress is a dying art these days.

' As we know, the correct racing line is not always out-in-out, and the correct way on a public road is out-in-in for lefts and out-out-out for rights, within the confines of your side of the road.

In many cases you can't.

If you need to use the other side of the road to hoon around a corner at higher speed, you must make an allowance for another vehicle coming the opposite way just outside of your field of vision.

A-Class CDi at 28,000rpm...!

Tim..

Passing the mondeo (c. 2:00) is comedy

D'ya reckon you'll be able to use it from the middle of next week onwards?

Maybe at weekends?

I want to see how sooty the Saab is... :)

Got a hectic week next week, will try and catch up with you though