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It happen's to almost everyone. I felt really bad when the Instructor Canidate I was role playing with started to look like the Grinche. Luckily we pitted before he lost it, but it happens to a lot of people.

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VIR didn't bother me so much - riding along at Rockingham had me :crazy: though. The compression/long turning through the banking did it for me.

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There have been a couple of times I have felt woozy at Rockingham and VIR (never at Roebling). I agree with the others in that it has something to do with the downward G forces and changes in elevation. I seem to be having the same issue with rollercoasters the older I get. But after years of drinking, I have the ability to muscle through it and retain my dinner. :lol:

There was a time two years ago when a particular instructor took me through the uphill esses at a speed I thought not possible. With my feet planted firmly on the floor and the five point harness snugly holding me in place, the resulting full body clinch and thought of "oh $h!t" led me to pass a helluva stinky one. Thank goodness for the rule of open windows at DEs. :shock: :oops: He didn't ask and I never volunteered that the bad smell in South Bend wasn't a dead skunk in the woods.

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KendtEklund wrote:
VIR didn't bother me so much - riding along at Rockingham had me :crazy: though. The compression/long turning through the banking did it for me.


See that's weird. VIR KILLS me and I have ran entire sessions at Rockingham with no issue in the passenger seat.

Weird.

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Take Two!!!

I'm heading to VIR on Friday for a members day to help a friend sort out his Dutch, Euro Powered E-36. Its a different friend than the first go round and its the full course but I'm going prepared no less.

-motion sickness bands
-sickness bags from the airlines, Thanks Mom :oops:

I HAVE to get over this as I would eventually like to work up to the instructor level.


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I HAVE to get over this as I would eventually like to work up to the instructor level.


Good luck. Unless one of the remedies (patch, wristbands, whatever) cures it, there is little hope that you will just "get over it".

Get this. I can ride all weekend at VIR with students, Rockingham, and CMP with no issues. Put me in a street car with the person who cannot keep a steady speed (not using C/C) and I get sick as a dog. Also at an amusement park I can do roller coasters all day long, up down, sideways, whatever. Put me in anything that spins for two minutes (even a kids type merry-go-round) and I'm calling Ralf. Weird huh?

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Also at an amusement park I can do roller coasters all day long, up down, sideways, whatever. Put me in anything that spins for two minutes (even a kids type merry-go-round) and I'm calling Ralf. Weird huh?


I'm the same way Vincent. I can't figure it out. :) - AB

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I'm pretty sure the motion sickness thing is why I HATE HATE HATE the communicator thingies.

When I was a student, back in '96 probably, Susan Bunch was my instructor at Road Atlanta. Well, she had a "moment", set off she said by the smell of cooking brakes coming from a car in front of us... but she controlled it (and here's the kicker) swallowed it back down. We were using those communicators. So I heard, vividly, the retching followed by a big GULP. I nearly vomited myself from it, and have made every effort to avoid the stupid things ever since then.

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Spent a great day yesterday at VIR, I decided at the last minute to leave the helmet at home, as there was much work to be done with my friends new car. The car ran so so in the cold morning sessions and ran like a sewing machine in the afternoon.

They had us at south paddock, probably due to the 13 hour race today, which was kind of tight, and made for some interesting traffic snarls.

On the way home we took a detour to Ruby Tuesday, for some supper. Something wasn't right with my burger, sauce or something, and YUP I ended up yacking yet again with the same crowd only this time it was on the way home and I made it outside the vehical. WTF is going on... talk about horrible horrible timing.

I can't make this stuff up


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