Two encounters today.

First I had an EVO behind me in traffic for a while. One time he got behind me, and I accelerated, but he didn't do much, so I figured he wasn't game.

Then we got stopped at a light where he was behind me. Once the light turned green, I just floored it, and he did the same. I kept going, slowly pulling away from him, and by the time I hit 80 I had pulled a couple cars at most. (2 maybe?)

I then slowed down, made a turn onto another side road, and he followed. This back road had some hard curves, and so I came into the first corner hot. I started braking, downshifted, and powered through. He tried keeping up, however, as we hit a few more curves, it was apparent he was struggling to stick with me. Once again, I found myself pulling away from him.

After that he turned off at the next stop sign.

Then later, on the freeway, I had a mustang GT with tinted windows that kept blocking me off from getting ahead of him in the left lane. Eventually, traffic cleared and I made an attempt to go by him doing about 75 in the middle lane.

As I got closer he started to speed up to match my speed, so I downshifted to 5th. He then downshifted as I got next to him, and I shifted to 4th. At that, we both floored it about the same time. By 115mph he gave up as I was still pulling on him. I had about 2 cars on him at that time. (not bad for having the top down. )

 

It's a lot more interesting racing Evo's and GT's than Tiburons and Probes, eh? Good runs.

 

hey, I don't pick them, they pick me. (haha usually) lol

 

mustang drivers need something to pick on.

 

Nice runs!

 

So you raced a EVO when he started behind you? Why not let him get next to you and hit them off then? As far as the struggling keeping up with you in the corners....maybe he wasn't pushing his car or wanting to risk life and limb to just ride your ass while accelerating around a corner.

At least give the EVO a better chance to run you like you did the Mustang.

 

Was it a 05 MY mustang?

 

The person that usually wins in the corners is the one that is willing to take the car to the edge. The EVO just couldn't so he LOST!


-Chris

 

The point that he was behind me, the road cut down to one lane after the light and there was a car next to me on the line. We had no chance to run side by side.

I'll give you that about the corners, however, toward the end of the run, he was almost far back enough that i was rounding the next turn as he was still in the last. Then again, i'm not the greatest S2000 driver, so I can't claim that I could auto-x like the best A-stock S2000 drivers, which would be faster than the EVO.

 

no. 99-04