plumber wrote:Are you guys for real.
How many times have I read and heard that Police Pursuit drivers "invented" overlapping in order to take corners very quickly. My Group's PC1 states this as fact quite often. Imagine racing after a baddy and decelarating from say 100nph smoothy down to 10mph about an artic away from a corner and taking a leisurely second gear and blasting into the new road. - Not a chance
Why not?
What's important is that you are in a good safe position on approach, that your entry speed is appropriate & that the vehicle is in a suitable gear for that speed (& circumstance), so that you can maintain a desired line safely through the turn & make your desired progress on the exit relative to the next hazard.
How that is exactly achieved may differ. Some people may find they achieve all of that whilst overlapping, whilst others may find that they do separating. What really matters is being able to maintain those objectives consistently rather than the method. Doing it for a test where the organisation setting the test limits your choices to just one method, only complicates that for you if the method they require isn't one you find gets you the best results consistently. If it's the way that does suit you best then it's not a problem