Big Lap direction

Tannin

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In which direction is it best to do a Big Lap? Clockwise or anticlockwise?

Why?

Discuss.










(I already know the correct answer, but I thought I'd see if any of you blokes do.)

(Well, I reckon it's the correct answer, and seeing it's my thread, I get to decide.)
 
If you mean Mt Panorama, then anti clockwise. If you mean what I think you mean, most people I know of do it clockwise. I don't think it really matters. Why do you think it matters?
 
Oh dear. No no no. A Big Lap. You start in, for example, Adelaide and then go all they way around, including Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Darwin, Cairns, Melbourne, Port Hedland, and all the places in-between. You should properly include St Helens, Strahan, Smithton, Devonport and Hobart as well, though not everybody does.
But assuming you start in, oh let's say Sydney, do you start by turning left or right? And yes, there is a right answer. :)
 
I've heard the best way is anti-clockwise.
Has to do with the winds blowing across the nullabor plain.
 
I've gone both directions and not seen an advantage either way.
 
Ateday, you have nailed it. :) You may look forward to to your prize in next week's mail. You go anticlockwise, of course, 'coz it's shorter.

Now, for bonus points, and a free entry into next week's draw, how much shorter is it?

(For simplicity, assume that a clockwise Big Lap is exactly 15,000km. Assume also that the distance betwen lanes is precisely 5.0 metres. How much shorter is the anti-clockwise lap going all that way in the inside lane?)
 
2*pi*(15e6/(2*pi) - 5.0)

to a first approximation.
 
about 0.03 kilometres shorter ...

BUT, it's very late, and we have had a very long, tiring day! So I will have to check this in the morning ... :lol:
 
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