Originally Posted by
Racer Ex
Belgian Gutter Racing is an integral part of racing in Texas in the Spring. It produces Qatari-like echelons.
The pros are smart about this. They know the group is more likely to get across and integrate. Mostly the P1/2 folks get this. Trouble arises when guys stop counting the seconds, stop considering that the guy on point is pushing 350w, and just look at the distance.
Look how close they are! I'll just jump across (what is in reality a 30 second gap in a howling wind that's going to take 3 minutes at 450w).
Although it is amusing to watch them come through their prior safe haven and continue backward with that shocked look
That's an interesting thread in itself - "how do you judge whether you can make the junction with the lead group?" The temptation (my temptation, anyway) was to try to TT my way across. Wrong. Never made it, or if I did make it was so screwed I was spat out again by the next attack. Learned I had to sprint across and hope they didn't counterattack for a few seconds while I regrouped. They usually did...