>> ^EndAll:
Ireland ≠ England


You're correct that Ireland is neither in, nor part of, England. However it's still part of the British Isles.

It can get a little confusing, but breaking it down as follows helps:

Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales. (But neither Northern nor Southern Ireland.)

The United Kingdom includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Southern Ireland being an independent country called the Republic of Ireland, also known as Eire.)

The British Isles, however, are made up of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and the several surrounding smaller islands.

So although Ireland is not part of Great Britain it is still part of the British Isles and therefore "British".

I'm not privileged and can't re-add this back into the * British channel, (Not to be confused with the English Channel with the tunnel going under it), so hopefully someone else will.

>> ^EndAll:
Ireland ≠ England
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England ≠ Britain either, just to be picky.

>> ^Payback:
Was the little "NSFW" tab on the top right of the video not showing when you all NSFW'd?


Whoa... Did that move? Didn't it appear in among the other channels on the left side before? Entirely possible that it was already flagged and I just missed it. My bad!

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In many rallies (including WRC) drivers are allowed to pre-run the stages with their co-driver and create their own pacenotes. Other times the organizers provide official pacenotes that all teams must use.

Each team has their own style, but pacenotes are a sequence of shorthand created to describe the course. Particularly, the distance to, and severity of corners along with other track anomalies such as jumps or cautions. This particular team (crazy as they are) used speed guidance as well, by means of proper gear selection.

In example:
100 K right 2 into 400 flat

Would be read on the course to mean 100 meters to a level 2 severity kink to the right which then opens to a 400 meter flat. Bend severity is generally rated 1-5/6 where 1 is tight and 5/6 is loose (this can be flipped, depending). Flat means floor it!

Check the Wiki for additional info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacenotes

How does that work - they pre-drive the track and write down the optimal shifts and such on a map?... and the co-driver's job is to read it back as they go?

i'm pretty sure the co driver was thinking "wtf we're not supposed to take a vertical 90° turn here"

>> ^Jinx:
>> ^grubert:
Women and directions eh?
Sorry, had to do it.
I like women.
_{they are nice people}.

I hear you can have sex with them too.
Poor co-driver, I have trouble reading a map on the motorway without getting carsick, I imagine doing it at 70mph on a dirt track is somewhat more difficult.


The Co drivers often list the corners so its not like map reading where you have to work things out , the art is in paying atentoin to all the corners and details (depending on the rally co drivers get to do a couple of runs of the track ) , and then being able to pace them and paint a good and acuret image of the road ahead to the driver with only a cuple of commands.

>> ^grubert:
Women and directions eh?
Sorry, had to do it.
I like women.
_{they are nice people}.

I hear you can have sex with them too.

Poor co-driver, I have trouble reading a map on the motorway without getting carsick, I imagine doing it at 70mph on a dirt track is somewhat more difficult.

She is not calling out the corners soon enough , Often co drivers will stack corners 2 or more in advance this allows the driver to line up and prepare the car it also gives the co driver a chance to correct mistakes, the co driver here seems to be calling the corners only slightly before and sometimes when they are already visible.

It also appears that she called out 1 wrong corner and that he had trouble hearing her.

Co-driver's fault. He totally skipped the part about the deer in the pace notes.

I don't like this sort of thing being posted and having people laugh at it.

>> ^mram:
He wasn't ok...
Here is the news account of this wreck fron the Colfax,CA record.
Second victim pulled from Colfax big rig wreckage
By Jenna Nielsen, Journal Staff Writer
The body of a co-driver was extricated this morning by Cal Fire crews at the scene of Monday's big rig rollover crash near Colfax.
The body of a second man was found underneath debris Tuesday morning at the accident site of a big rig rollover near Colfax Monday, officials reported.
The man, whose name is not being released pending notification of his family, was reportedly a passenger in the big rig, which rolled into a guard rail spilling its load of recylced plastic down the embankment near the Magra Road exit on westbound Interstate 80, California Highway Patrol offi-cials reported.
The driver, who was trapped inside of the truck’s cab and was also killed in the accident, was re-portedly going 70 mph and passing another truck in the fast lane when he lost control and slid down an embankment, said CHP Officer Rich Ruiz.
“This morning, as the investigator was going over log books, (it was) determined there was possi-bly a co-driver involved,” Ruiz said.
Ruiz said investigators also have video footage of the accident, recorded by a device on a Wal-Mart truck, which the driver of the big rig was passing at the time of the accident.
“The driver of the WalMart truck was doing 55 mph, so we estimate the driver (of the big rig) was going 70 mph when he approached a curve and lost control. You see in the video the trailer starts to fishtail. When the driver tries to correct, he is sent over the guardrail.”
Battalion Chief Jeff Brand of Cal Fire said crews located the co-driver under the debris and extri-cated him this morning.
Brand said when the truck was overturned, the cab was torn off and wedged beneath the contents of the trailer and the trailer itself.
All westbound lanes were closed as a result of the accident, which occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. All lanes were opened by approximately 7:45 p.m., California Highway Patrol officials said.
Ruiz said the driver of big rig had only had his license for nine days.
http://trkrjim.blogspot.com/2008/09/big-rig-rollover.html

"Both cars had two sets of co-drivers"... How much does that make?