General Trackday Guide (Please add to this!)

[Ernie]

Safety?

Are you allowed to overtake going into corners? I think that it's a good idea when this isn't allowed, at least in the Novice/Intermediate groups.

I've done a couple of bike trackdays where this is strictly forbidden and there were hardly any accidents, which is great. Other times I've done trackdays where it's everyone for themselves into each corner and people have gotten hurt or had their bikes damaged. There appears to be far more track stoppages due to the increased number accidents, which cuts down on track time.

Overtaking well before the corner, or on the way out of a corner is fine, it's just that now and again people get carried away blasting into corners on the inside line and the person in front cuts across, rightly so, for the apex and then the rider behind crashes into them. It seems to happen a lot in the Inters group.

Any thoughts on this?