I’ll never sleep again
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At the summit of the picturesque fens
Definitely can be worrying when they first start driving :|
My oldest girl is such a crazy driver we paid for her to have a supercar day at Thruxton a few years back, they have a instructor who marks them for driving abilities, after a few laps in the Porsche the instructor got out and told us ...." she's pretty fearless isn't she".......fair play she a marked 8/10 average for all the different driving skills......unfortunately the instructor should have never told her "she's a natural ", especially as next up was the Formula Renault...........bad bad move.......I can remember lap one ( we were watching from the control tower viewing area) going like a bullet out of a gun, lap 2 she managed 3 overtakes........lap 3 ......she overtook 2 more cars on back straight and as she disappeared out of my sight was trying to make a final overtake before the chicane...........lap4 .....she doesn't appear? " look dear, their waving the black flags for someone ".........it was at that point I noticed a bent ( missing front nose cone and spoiler) single seater being flagged into the pits!!! You guessed it, my daughters lunging overtake into the chicane hadn't worked out!!!!! The Other single seater she hit never made it back to the pits!!! ( but i believe the driver wasnt injured just shacken up when a slick tyre appeared on his car)Apparently when handing back her race suit they advised her that all future bookings from her WILL BE DECLINED.........but happy to say 5 years on and she's never had another shunt and has a clean driving licence
My oldest girl is such a crazy driver we paid for her to have a supercar day at Thruxton a few years back, they have a instructor who marks them for driving abilities, after a few laps in the Porsche the instructor got out and told us ...." she's pretty fearless isn't she".......fair play she a marked 8/10 average for all the different driving skills......unfortunately the instructor should have never told her "she's a natural ", especially as next up was the Formula Renault...........bad bad move.......I can remember lap one ( we were watching from the control tower viewing area) going like a bullet out of a gun, lap 2 she managed 3 overtakes........lap 3 ......she overtook 2 more cars on back straight and as she disappeared out of my sight was trying to make a final overtake before the chicane...........lap4 .....she doesn't appear? " look dear, their waving the black flags for someone ".........it was at that point I noticed a bent ( missing front nose cone and spoiler) single seater being flagged into the pits!!! You guessed it, my daughters lunging overtake into the chicane hadn't worked out!!!!! The Other single seater she hit never made it back to the pits!!! ( but i believe the driver wasnt injured just shacken up when a slick tyre appeared on his car)Apparently when handing back her race suit they advised her that all future bookings from her WILL BE DECLINED.........but happy to say 5 years on and she's never had another shunt and has a clean driving licence
Agree.....my oldest speed crazy daughter had a moped when she was at University........by the hand of God she somehow went through that episode without incident, just the cyclist she had the head on crash with when using her moped in the cycle lane on Brighton Sea front, in her defence she wasn't aware that only NON motorised bikes were allowed on them 
Congrats to her - now get that wallet out n pony up the extra for her insurance and the tramadol to keep SWMBO calm
North West Surrey
[ref]Pondrew[/ref], We’ll done to her, and she looks so pleased with her lovely reliable Mini :wink:
Ah yes but having spoken to her about 'the test' it would seem......Mr Tidy said:
NO emergency stop was required
NO reversing around a corner
NO three point turn (or equivalent)
NO hill start (admittedly difficult to find somewhere to do it in the Lincolnshire fens)
NO opening the bonnet and pointing out oil, coolant, etc
She drove into a pub car park by mistake and only got a 'minor' mark!
I am wondering whether the massive backlog in driving tests because of Covid, means they just want shot of 'em so will pass anyone!
Obviously I won't show her this post!
Ole gits rule said:
Been doing the "ah now she has passed her premium goes up by £5,000,000 a year" conversations with the insurance already.
Ironically, she now can't drive as her original insurance is invalid until I re-mortgage the house. I can't drive the car either until I stump up the increased premium! :roll:
Pondrew said:
Surely you can drive it if you take her off the insurance and then add her back on when you get a sensible quote.?
I would look around and cancel if you can get the insurance cheaper elsewhere
Driving instructors have always been akin to football referee's, each sees each incident differently and applies their own interpretation of the rules.
Some absolutely shocking decisions too.
After watching the Inbetweeners Simon do his test, it does seem plausible such situations happen as it can be hard to see how some people passed a test.
On a test drive last week I had a customer go the wrong way round a roundabout. Interesting moment for myself and her husband.
Embarrassingly there was a cry of, "FFS woman, what are you bloody doing?"
Obviously the husband had enough sense to keep quiet though......
Some absolutely shocking decisions too.
After watching the Inbetweeners Simon do his test, it does seem plausible such situations happen as it can be hard to see how some people passed a test.
On a test drive last week I had a customer go the wrong way round a roundabout. Interesting moment for myself and her husband.
Embarrassingly there was a cry of, "FFS woman, what are you bloody doing?"
Obviously the husband had enough sense to keep quiet though......
Pondrew said:
When the wee fella passed his test we went from Collingwood learners insurance to Smart Wheels (black box type thing) and it wasn’t too spiteful.
[ref]Pondrew[/ref], Ori phoned me last week and we were talking about this. He told me of a product that I’d never heard of. It’s an additional product to a basic insurance. You/the Mrs have your £250 policy and your daughter takes out an additional policy only for when she’s driving the car. Still wasn’t cheap but Ori said manageable and not as dear as insuring the conventional way. He’d be able to give you much more detail
I bought a car for them to learn in before they could drive, so it was in my name, then I added them as learners and when they passed, added them as drivers. Was about £650 for my daughter to be added as a driver with me being the policy holder.
We did all use that car as it was great to have a car that you could actually park without having a heart attack when walking back to a car park and seeing what is next to you.
We did all use that car as it was great to have a car that you could actually park without having a heart attack when walking back to a car park and seeing what is next to you.
Her car has been insured in her name since she got it/ her provisional licence. Me and her mum are named drivers on her policy. The idea was that after a year (hopefully) she would get a year's NCB.
So I have paid the extra £800 on her existing policy until renewal to hopefully get a years NCB.
I did find cheaper quotes, cheapest was £1,600 a year but it would have meant cancelling her current policy and losing eight months towards a NCB.
I spent 2 hours yesterday and this morning on the phone to "specialist young drivers" brokers to compare. Both came in at over £4,000! Waste of time they were!
So I have paid the extra £800 on her existing policy until renewal to hopefully get a years NCB.
I did find cheaper quotes, cheapest was £1,600 a year but it would have meant cancelling her current policy and losing eight months towards a NCB.
I spent 2 hours yesterday and this morning on the phone to "specialist young drivers" brokers to compare. Both came in at over £4,000!
Waste of time they were!
Sticking with the same company at least earns the no claim, after a year (including provisional) it is on the statement, so then you can move around with that 1 year on there. Good plan.
Strangely though, on my Z4 I had 0 no claim, and on renewal of the premium (6 months later on a multi car), it had 1 years no claim on it, even though it was 6 months.
Strangely though, on my Z4 I had 0 no claim, and on renewal of the premium (6 months later on a multi car), it had 1 years no claim on it, even though it was 6 months.