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Driving to work at Elvington on Friday morning in a little Lotus Elise belonging to Dave’s Driving Sensations company for a day’s work on track. The usual traffic with people grumpy, still half asleep and generally wishing it was Saturday. 56mph behind a petrol tanker on a fast two way traffic road with few overtaking chances, even in a nimble little Lotus, so just sit back and keep an eye on the company car road warriors. The queue behind the tanker is about eight cars long but there’s a rep in a VW Passat decides the straight is long enough….. Read the rest of this story…
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Classic scenario and I guess one we’ve all seen. Here in Lanzarote, most major roads have what is effectively a narrow hard shoulder on both sides. In this situation, it’s enough, with a little co operation, to get three cars through.
Sadly it gives too many drivers “Cojones of steel” when going for a marginal overtake, but it usually just results in some horn blaring and gesticulating, rather than ambulances.