Sometimes you need to overtake others too. So courtesy all round is needed.

SJW Motorsport 46 yeah I got a chuckle from that ginetta too lol

Just before I was saying to myself, mhh That Ginetta dude will be...Yep there it is..

TheMadRatterUK he flagged the black flag

It's not assassin's creed

Don't know if this is a joke or not.

Blue you mean?

On some tracks at track days they don't have blue flags. They just have to let the faster car pass, its part of the rules. He should of been black flagged because he was pretty much just blocking the car from passing. As well as being a hazard on the track.

Xtina K || until you ride a litre bike you won't understand that you can't fly into corners like a car, hell even the best of the best won't fly into corners often. Good way to slide and risk huge injury. You're on two wheels man.

Aside from the racing line part.

I think he's referring to motorbike track days, I see it all the time in the twisties too, big bike, less than adequate rider, pins it down the long and narrow and hits the brakes to a dead halt around the twisties going a snails pace and most often crossing white lines. And yes I own a litre bike haha :D

Except they're usually in the kitty litter by about the 3rd bend.

@@burgerbandit3646 Ah yes motorcycles have no grip at all, right. They definitely cannot corner if they want to.... Lol have you ever even seen a motorcycle?

+sniktun1 not only that but his lines were just terrible, he was all over the track for a simple turn

im an American but... he drove like most Americans. lol

Are you sure it's not the cars that you have? I once had a '71 Charger and it handled TERRIBLY! Great in a straight line though!

well Mercedes kinda is a German muscle car.

and why is that? their fast in a straight line, but aren't known for their cornering abilities. so it makes perfect sense to me

Also see it on the one highqays..id10t's...

You’re absolutely right. The minute of track time you’ll loose isn’t worth risking your car. I know we all think anger won’t get the better of us but we are all human. Also I had a car in front of me go off while I was fallowing him closely and he blamed me for “pushing him” never gave me a point by.

Sensible. There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old bold pilots.

The fakt that it's a stock amg makes it worse, we can just assume its some rich hillbilly's son, or similar.

topkek

darth415 nej

Are you the guy in the Mercedes?

the people questioning this comment, are part of the problem

Logic.

***** We are usually picking those people out of a tire wall.

***** To each their own I guess. When I go to the track, I want to get into a rhythm and work on my lines. I try to mix it up with people I know, people I trust. That trust is very important when you have to drive the vehicle home after the track day. This guy exhibits the classic signs of someone that doesn't know what they are doing who has more car than they can handle. When I see that, I typically pull into the pits and give them some space, let them collect someone else.

Hehe you said asses

Well put sir!

+jamie mitchell x2 spot on mate !

Clew? It's not sailing son. ;)

jamie mitchell clew lol. clue

jamie mitchell no clew,i sincerely hope you can see the irony in that my friend.otherwise i really have no CLUE

jamie mitchell no clew,i sincerely hope you can see the irony in that my friend.otherwise i really have no CLUE

He/She is an I D 10 T! Didn't have enough sense to get the h**l out if the way...

@@pg1171 I get that, but there really was no need to “censor” the word idiot.

@@ooohhenrybmblm Just my way of writing it. Not censored on purpose.

I think the whole video showed he was pretty bad. A driver with common sense would not pass the cars on the straights instead he would recognise he was faster on the straights and slower in the corners and let faster cars by and then give himself a gap so he wouldn't catch the cars again on the straights. But I agree that the part when he went off also showed the stupidity.

by far the best reply to this video ,you summed it up perfectly

Being whipped by an OAP merc when your a race hero on a track day hurts lol !

@@Dan-wz9tr Except he didn't, he passed him easily.

Agree. Also when they 50 in the 60 zone and then going throw a town STILL do 50 in a 30 zone and they they pull away from you in a dangerous area and you miss the only over taking opportunity coming back into a 60 zone. Had happened to me a few times.

Omg that comment brought me nightmares

Right up until a skilled driver starts having fun and gets flagged for 'racing' lol. I never understood that about British track days.

Yup and that's fair. Assholes in their lighter cars like the camera car don't like it, maybe they should have more hp next track day.

Not really. If you want to go fast in a straight line, go to a drag strip, instead of floundering your way around ruining a trackday.

tinton3w Wrong. You don't belong on a track with that mentality. It can get people killed. The asshole in this video is in the AMG.

Lifeofriley18 Bullshit I own an AMG and your comment makes no sense, the driver sucks and that is all. The car is fast on straights and corners it is matter of having a driver there to do the job not some imbecile. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6p-g9Or0pbZcoE.html&spfreload=10

Pedro C I think you will find that it's your comment that makes no sense. First of all, you say that you own "an AMG", then post a link to a trackday showing a C63 AMG... which is a completely different car to the SL in the video. It's a completely different body, different engine, different suspension setup and geometry, and is some around 225kg lighter than the SL. Your comment implying that they're comparable cars reveals a lot about your background knowledge on the matter. Nevertheless, either way, trackday special cars are better than big heavy road cars that have been made more focussed. So even the C63 is over 1700kg, and I can't think of a single racing car that weighs that much. Even a NASCAR car weighs less than that, and they're not exactly the daintiest of racing cars. And there's a good reason for this... nobody wants a heavy racing car. Tyres have a certain coefficient of friction, which resists the lateral force generated through the corner. Less weight means less lateral force for a given speed, so you can carry more speed through the corner with the grip the tyres can generate. Lightweight track specials like Caterhams and Ginettas are designed specifically for use on the racing track with all of that in mind, whereas something like a C63 is a saloon car with a more powerful engine and suspension. For clarity, the argument isn't whether a C63 or SL55 is a good car or good on track days... the argument is if they're as good at cornering as a lighweight trackday special. The C63 is designed so that it can also take a bootful of shopping home and the kids to school, whereas Caterhams and Ginettas can't, and the SL55 is designed to waft along the autobahn at 155mph in near silence, and have a fancy folding metal roof for when you drive it to the French riviera, and Caterhams and Ginettas aren't. Of course the AMGs aren't as good on track - they're compromised for a different set of circumstances. And in the same way that you wouldn't want a Caterham driver blocking the outside lane of the autobahn when you're trying to waft past at warp speed in an SL55, you don't want an SL55 lumbering all over the track like a hippo in ballet shoes when you're in a lightweight trac special on a track day.

Uk track days run open pitlane so no groups etc

Jack Smith that's what I would have done. god only knows what would happen after you pass him.

Jack Smith one lap?not a big hassle if you ask me.Next lap and he's through.Grow up,no one needs to get out of your way

Grant Madden You are obviously someone who gets in other people's way and feel the track is yours. He's all over the corners and has pull away speed on the straight.  Know one will be able to get by him. You pit and tell the officials who will Black Flag him. You either use common curtesy, act like a grown up or go home. Track Days are a privilege not a right.

Not normally.The onus is on you to pass safely.He does not need to let you by unless shown the blue flag and although I raced bikes not cars,I never held anyone up.This is just a play day,not an actual race meeting so it's probably every man for himself rules.

Please do not go on a Track Day if you think that they are 'everyman for himself rules'!

Monty 4248 what are you saying ???? He wasn't fast so why didn't you overtake him then??

They had a rule that day. Point by passing, since all the skill levels where out at the time.

This is a Track Day. Track Days are not Race Days and have different rules to abide by. Track Day rules usually state that you are only allowed to overtake on the straights and that you can only overtake on whichever side you are told to overtake on in the Driver's Briefing before the circuit opens.

The rules also usually state that you are to point by faster cars behind you in a timely manner. Hence my comment. Better yet, move up to an experienced class that allows passing without point bys. Its more fun anyway.

Being "right" won't be much consolation when your car is going home on the back of a flatbed truck because you've had a collision whilst passing one of these clowns.

Faster down the straights does not mean faster around a whole lap.

+asdfawesomesauce Nah, he almost killed me in a car crash after he sped away from his old school friends and just kept accelerating up the road forgetting that there was a 90 degree bend at the end. He tried to take the bend at about 65mph in a 30 limit and lost it. After that I told him what I thought of him and his driving and he went in the huff and we stopped hanging out.

+Sinky ....im a class1 lorry driver and see this alot.....people hate lorrys overtaking them too... i see some terrible driving i do around 130,000miles a year!! with work pleasure and track all together

+lewis eyers Yeah I always wanted to drive trucks but never got round to it. I've got a pretty powerful car but I'm never above 60 with it. I plod along happily at truck speeds and if I end up behind one on the bypass I usually don't bother overtaking and just stick behind until my turnoff.

Hahahahahaha -- Best comment. :)

Now if you'd said your girlfriend was in the passenger seat with her head in your lap, I would understand.

By the way you were driving, I though she had her head in your lap. ;-)

He also didn't listen to any of the instructions given during the driver meeting about maintaining good track etiquette, checking your mirrors, and letting by slower cars with better drivers when they catch up to the inexperienced driver in the big horsepower car.

Haha 😂 My old tricks, but I’ve been told off a few times now for doing it. TDOs have had a hard time lately, so money seems to talk at the moment. Hopefully when we start having briefings again he penny will drop.

Don't be a pratt

+morbsGTI20vt .... very good point....if you dont have the talent or speed to pass safely, back of a few seconds let the merc go then get your foot down and enjoy your self.....respect to your comments....happy days..

+morbsGTI20vt But if u start out with no cars behind u, and then suddenly there is a car that are so close behind u, clearly that cars is faster than u on that track, even if u are faster on the straights. might just give way for the car and enjoy your session.

Doesn't matter if the merc is faster down the straights, he's lapping slower. If he were to let the camera car pass, it would get away from him through the corners.

In the UK we don't generally allow overtaking in corner, so going by Aus rules we'd never be able to overtake an 'only quicker in a straight line' car/driver.

Says the BMW driver!

I've found if you keep pushing idiots like this enough they tend to eventually fall off the track 😂

I. Think the speedo is broken,I saw the needle jump.