What a p*****k 19

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:47:56 +0100, Harry Bloomfield

Hi again Harry. I'm curious as to why you snip and avoid so many questions. I'm intruiged by the car that he overtook but which you didn't have to. Hence the two questions:

* Doesn't that then mean that it turned off pretty much immediately after the other guy overtook it?

* Did this guy turn off left or right?

This was a right hander meaning that the left lane is on the outside of the bend and therefore the distance for the horses to get around the bend would be far longer than had it been a left hand bend (and the horses would have been on the inside). I really can't see that only a few seconds later, you're overtaking them clear of the bend.

It still beggars belief that "two rather large horses" would be "being riden(sic) side by side" around a "very tight 90 deg bend". These people are surely idiots to do so.

But still on the bend somewhat, surely? I think the overhead photo will help to clear this up when you tell us where the bend was. I'll get the photos, you just provide the location info. We can then see how many other bends there were (the ones where you would catch up, because you weren't belting down the straights), before the point where you were right behind him again as he pulled up. Presumably it had lots of bends for you to catch up on, so you'll be eager to provide the coords so as we can verify it.

OK.

You said that you "slowed to a crawl". It doesn't sound like you timed it that well if you ended up at a "crawl" behind them. Sounds like you made rather a pig's ear out of in in fact.

In any case, it's clear that he *did* lose you at the horses (despite you saying these are the places where you caught him up), quite considerably more than a couple of seconds delay - if your descriptions of the two overtakes is correct. As I said earlier, simply slowing to a crawl and speeding up again immediately would lose you more than a few seconds.