Bizarre Pacenotes

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I'm sure that Mike Broad, when he co-drove for Brookes, used what seemed to me to be a 'normal' system whenever I've seen on-board footage of the pair of them on a pace note event, like the 1987 Ulster Rally. Sadly, I can't find any clips from that one anywhere on the net.

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The problem the Irish competitors had was the distances Brookes had in the notes. Many described the notes as dangerous and that the distances just didn't correspond with the corners, also competitors commented that the descriptions of the corners were wrong and were opposite to how others would have noted them. Brookes took 50 metres as a base distance in the notes, which he developed with Peter Bryant for 1980 and later modified with Broad, and would often base distances on telegraph poles as reckoned these were 30 or 50 metres apart.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I rather enjoyed Mike Nicholson's 'augmentation' of his pace notes for Derek Bell on the first day of the 1987 Lombard RAC. It was Bell's first time on pace notes and Nicholson obviously felt that he needed a bit of extra help — for example, "it's very muddy, and there are trees as well — mind your braking."

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Hilarious :)

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I'm sure that Mike Broad, when he co-drove for Brookes, used what seemed to me to be a 'normal' system whenever I've seen on-board footage of the pair of them on a pace note event, like the 1987 Ulster Rally. Sadly, I can't find any clips from that one anywhere on the net.

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There is a very brief clip here of Brookes in-car 87 Ulster, from the Manta Magic docu.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QDOtsjW7Xv0