Corvette vs. S2000
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From: Fishers
Originally posted by Pappy
I can't tell if that was a compliment or a statment that I got really lucky?
I can't tell if that was a compliment or a statment that I got really lucky?
It's not a bad thing. C5's are tough competitions. Don't take this wrong, but I think you definetly out drove the guy. An S2000 with exhaust and a passenger vs. a stock M6 C5 is probably most of the time going to prove to be the corvette's race. I just think you ran a hell of race to beat him and he probably wasn't that great of a driver, but that's his fault. You gotta run what you bring you know. So, GOOD KILL!!!
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From: Boulder
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wesmaster
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So you think all of the professional import drag racers who make their yearly salary drag racing Civics, Integras, and Focuses are just dumb - because the original designer of the car didn't design the car to do that?
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So you think all of the professional import drag racers who make their yearly salary drag racing Civics, Integras, and Focuses are just dumb - because the original designer of the car didn't design the car to do that?
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From: Houston
Originally posted by pfb
...is a poor analogy.
...is a poor analogy.
There are obvoius risks to drag racing on the street, if you had said that the risks are too high for you to consider doing it then I wouldn't have posted anything; but that's not what you said.
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From: Htown-land of smog n' potholes
Originally posted by pfb
O.K. kinda like walking into the Bimmer forum an debating the value proposition of a Z8, but here it goes anyway:
is a poor analogy.
O.K. kinda like walking into the Bimmer forum an debating the value proposition of a Z8, but here it goes anyway:
is a poor analogy.
with a few exceptions everyone knows the risk of racing on the street.. and hopefully are smart enough to only act in situations where the only two at risk are the two racers.
like anything.. it has its risk.. if your smart about it.. you can minimize those risk.
you obviously have the same curiousty the rest of us do.. to be in 'Street' encounters.. seeing how our car stacks up against others.. not with magazine numbers but real life benchmarking.
or maybe you just came in here to say the reasons you don't drag race your car and no one is trying to convince you that you should.
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From: Tampa
Insomniak,
probably the best reply of all these....
I just posted the vette encounter because I was very excited and happy. It was not my intension to change people's mind's about drag racing the s2k. I just love that car and want to enjoy it, whether it being in a race on the street or a race on the track.
probably the best reply of all these....
I just posted the vette encounter because I was very excited and happy. It was not my intension to change people's mind's about drag racing the s2k. I just love that car and want to enjoy it, whether it being in a race on the street or a race on the track.
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From: Clearwater
I was with Pappy when he raced the Vette and the scary thing about it was that the second the race was over and we pulled a U-Turn, a cop appeared exactly where we were just going 95-100 MPH with the Vette. We threw it into idle (so the Spoon Exhaust would quite down a bit) but surely we thought we were done for. Shockingly he drove right by and did nothing. I still say he had to of saw it. Anyway, it was crazy..but fun...
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From: Bradenton
pfb,
dude, don't wanna race?
then don't.
Others of us will, you don't have to understand it.
We know the risks - breakage, the law, etc and if we're comfortable enough with the risks to punch it & smile then that's the way it's gonna be,
Heads up street drags are as old as cars, hell even older.
You don't think 300 years ago when two men met on thier best horses they didn't kick em in the ribs and go?
Hell, even back farther, to foot racing, is this all that different of an idea?
humans werent built for speed, we race on foot. horses weren't built to haul our asses around, we race them, why should an admitedly fast car be that much of a shock?
don't worry about it!
same thing goes for mods, wings, superchargers, whatever, don't like it? don't do it to YOUR car, but don't freak on me if I do it to mine. As long as I make the payments, I'll do as I see fit.
Just my 2 pennies.
-V
Oh yeah pappy, congrats on the kill!
I don't have any probs believing you.
I scored against a black late 80s- early 90s vette ragtop a couple weeks ago, and I know he was trying, we talked afterwards and yes his car was running right and yes it was an automatic.
dude, don't wanna race?
then don't.
Others of us will, you don't have to understand it.
We know the risks - breakage, the law, etc and if we're comfortable enough with the risks to punch it & smile then that's the way it's gonna be,
Heads up street drags are as old as cars, hell even older.
You don't think 300 years ago when two men met on thier best horses they didn't kick em in the ribs and go?
Hell, even back farther, to foot racing, is this all that different of an idea?
humans werent built for speed, we race on foot. horses weren't built to haul our asses around, we race them, why should an admitedly fast car be that much of a shock?
don't worry about it!
same thing goes for mods, wings, superchargers, whatever, don't like it? don't do it to YOUR car, but don't freak on me if I do it to mine. As long as I make the payments, I'll do as I see fit.
Just my 2 pennies.
-V
Oh yeah pappy, congrats on the kill!
I don't have any probs believing you.
I scored against a black late 80s- early 90s vette ragtop a couple weeks ago, and I know he was trying, we talked afterwards and yes his car was running right and yes it was an automatic.