Are you kidding me?

You've never "ripped through the gears" in your S2000?

Not once have you gone above 6,000 RPM at WOT on a road? You always keep it at 50% or less throttle and never above 4200 RPM?

Come on, I've "ripped" through the gears in my H1, granted it was more of a painfully slow tear but for the H1, it's was WOT. I've done it my Accord, on my bike, in almost every vehicle I've owned/own.

You can't honestly make a statement like that without being a hypocrite. I know you've done at least once, just to see what she's got.

Mistakes happen, that's why they are called accidents.

 

so true

 

word I rip through the gears all the damn time but I normally only get to 5th since people don't know how to merge correctly

 

Anybody can drive a car fast if they can push the throttle pedal down.

Reading Ryan's description, it's clear that he just "ran out of talent" as the saying goes around the track. (Just so you know, I bounced my own S off of two walls at Pacific Raceways a couple years ago, so I'm not trying to put him down.) But the crash, as described, was not anything like an unavoidable accident.

The key mistake was towards the end of the crash. When he got off into the loose stuff, he tried to pull the car all the way back over immediately instead of just gathering it up and easing back into the good pavement. Then when he did get onto the good pavement, the car regained grip and shot him across to the other side where he smashed into a wall. If he had not done that, he would have gotten away with minor contact on the side of the car.

Of course, this is all going by his sketchy written description, without me seeing the scene much less the accident.

 

good disclaimer easily translated into...

Of course, I wasn't there so basically I have no clue what I'm talking about, but I am involved in racing and competition, therefore I can go into semidetailed analysis of any driving situation that I didn't see and have poor descriptions of.

Thanks for your .01 Mike!

Get mad if you want....I'm just sick of getting flamed for an accident that I'd forgotten about until very recently.

 

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Sitting in the parking lot rowing through your gears while making "VROOOOM! VROOOOM!" sounds doesn't count, Kelvin.

 

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damn. glad ur ok, i know im MONTHS late.

and im here upset about the dent on my trunk

 

WOOT!! you are still alive that means you can get ANOTHER S!! sorry to hear about what happen.