Roundabout chicken

Today's driving lesson was interesting, I've got all the actions down pretty comfortably and was happily holding a conversation and not particularly having think about what I was doing as I swung it around the roundabouts, but I seem to have got a tiny bit too comfortable with the route I'm driving. As I've driven around the business park so much I've got very used to gliding around with very little other traffic, so I've had a couple of times where I've come up to a roundabout a touch too fast and thought SHITOTHERCARSI'VEGOTTASTOP! I've never had to slam on the breaks or anything, but there have been a couple of times where I would've liked to have started breaking a second or two earlier for a smoother stop.
On one roundabout specifically I came up to it at exactly the same speed and distance as a Lotus Elise at the next entrance to my right, I spent so long thinking 'is he gonna stop...?' that I ended up driving straight out onto the roundabout, while he didn't stop he did luckily slow enough to fall in behind me. At first I thought 'Yeah bitch, roundabout chicken with an Elise and I won!' before realizing that you have to give right of way to cars on your right, so I actually just totally cut him up, my bad. But you know, live and learn, definitely learn as two roundabouts later I came up to a roundabout expecting to drive straight across before seeing a massive lorry pulling onto it from my right again, and if I'd done the same thing as with the Elise I probably would've got very intimate with that lorry's grill.
In all it was a good run, I had great practice and really entrenched my skillz, and the slight hiccups gave me good cause to stand back and maintain my focus.

The rally on Dave was interesting, the entire show was an introduction to the teams and drivers, so it didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know and kept it a mystery with how they're going to run the coverage with Monte Carlo next week. The second rate Dave presenter left a lot to be desired, especially after the top notch Sky Sports talent, and if I can expect the same level of quality from the rest of their coverage I think I will be definitely looking to torrents as my main rally provider.
One interesting development it did reveal is that all teams will be using a uniform tyre type provided by Pirelli, meaning no more driver choices making and breaking positions, keeping everyone on the same level. The removal of the anti-puncture system from all tyres is however especially shocking, meaning that what would've been a slight setback before can now knock drivers out of the runnings completely.
It has got me rather excited for the new rally season, less than a week now until the first stages of the 2008 World Rally Championship, and just over eleven months until I'm there watching it first hand at the side of a dirt road in the mountains of Wales, I can't wait for any of it.