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Keep calm and think when racing.....
Many years ago, handicap racing with the VSCC as I approached the old Woodcote on my last lap I was running second. Looking in my mirrors I saw that I was about to be overwhelmed by the pack catching me fast. What to do?
THINK!
I lifted off, left my braking late, didn't touch the brake pedal (so no lights) but did a huge handbrake turn into the bend with lots of tyre smoke.
My pursuers thought that I had lost it and backed off to avoid contact .... I held my position to the chequered flag.
So, moral of the tale, races in slow cars can be saved by thinking (or kidology)?
I seem to remember that Stirling Moss allegedly used to have a manual isolating switch to his brakelights so he could seem to be braking much later than his following drivers, they would try to emulate him and spin off. That was probably banned even then! But what psychology!
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