larryd Wrote:You're right Eric - when you think about it, it can't work.

They should do away with the "controlled" element altogether - just run the Newcomers-only lap totally untimed.

Dammit, they're not kids, so stop treating them like kids!!!

I can understand both points of view but, short of fitting stabilisers or sat-nav on the newcomers on the first few laps, I can't think of a better solution.

Several silly boys (acting like kids) last night seemed to be deliberately hanging back from their group, then opening up the throttle to catch up. One such nearly had a close encounter with the hard landscape at Gorse Lea, simply because he was performing a speed-burst and was too far behind the group to see where he should have been going. He may have stopped for a change of underwear at Ballacraine.