[QUOTE]Originally posted by Colin
[B]I'd like to chime in on this.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeff
[B
I disagree.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by smccurry
[B]

What competition?! You always take 1st place in A-stock

 

.I'd be happy to demonstrate since I do it for a living on the street everyday legally. HAHA I get to cheat. I'm use to doing it because I have to as a profession. If I'm unsuccessful someone usually get injured.

I didn't say anything about Auto Xing. I'm afraid that you did. What I have to do is generally travel quite fast in the line of duty and avoid civil traffic and pedristians. Kinda like Auto Xing in a real world senario. As far as the stook is concerned and since I'm use to this type of driving everyday, I'd have to say yes, not only would I beat you but probally humiliate you in the process. That is said in the spirit of competition. Professionally speaking, it's part of my profession as a law enforcement officer. Not to brag, but I've probally driven more miles and at speeds your incapable of traveling or driving. I've been trained by some of the best offensive driving schools in the country, not to mention defensive techniques for professional purposes. I don't fancy myself as a top competitor but I do quite alright for others and myself. I don't think I'd have much trouble with you though. In friendly competition with the guys I work with, you'd be labeled as all blow and no show. No offense, these guys like me, do it professionally daily. Unless you are a professional driver I highly doubt you could hang with the worst of us.

Personally speaking,such sarcasim doesn't suit you. I think that you could probably use more instruction and quite abit more understanding by your previous statement. But since you already seem to know more than I do about the fine art of offensive/defensive driving. Maybe you'd care to enlighten me with your ennumerable qualifications.

Maybe, just maybe, it's just possible that there are quite a few professionals out there that know....just alittle more about extreme driving than you! Care to comment further?

[QUOTE]hehe, I think you missunderstood me, because I agree with everything you say . What I meant was along the lines of what colin was saying... that you can get up to 8/10th pretty quick, but those 2/10ths are harder than in some other cars. But at 8/10th the s2000 is faster (around corners) than most cars driven to their full potential. I never said that it was unpredictable, just that it is light, and as a consequence the back does come around quick, just as it does in other great handling, light cars (like the lotus elise). As far as the powerband goes, let's just say that I would never want to be in the wrong gear by accident

 

Cdelena, what I was trying to emphasis here was th predictible handling of the car. Maybe a bad example. When you put it this way yes, I would probally agree, but I don't think that track racing was the emphasis of the original thread. Could always be wrong though. I've pushed the car to it's absolute limit and found no short commings for street use. Track use is another subject all togather. I personally don't think the designers of the car had all out track use in mind when they designed it.

 

Jeff, most of what I was getting at is how extreme your statement was. And light-spirited sarcasm is a decent means to make my point. I can see you're supremely confident in your street-driving ability.

Yes you have more miles and training than I do, unless you count Gran Turismo miles . But I think you can tell I KNOW I'm an intermediate driver and I do seek training.

I don't go 10/10th on streets. Yeah, I break posted speed limits from time to time but I'n no moving hazard. I ride motorcycles about as much as I drive 4-wheeled cages. I think that puts me ahead of most cagers in terms of street awareness. When I was younger I was an "assigned risk" (speeding tickets only) so you shouldn't assume I don't have more high-speed miles under the belt than you.

I've been around law enforcement types enough to know your job is 99% boredom 1% panic (as President of Shoot-to-Thrill Inc. I provided situation simulation training for Sacramento Sheriff's Dept, Davis SWAT team, and the Rancho nuclear power plant anti-terrorist team). You get all the good training but unless you work in a strong gang area you don't really log that many chase-miles.

Anyway, I like a challenge so if you ever find yourself out West and on a racetrack of ANY sort with your stook give me some notice and maybe we'll do more than bench-race.

 

I feel a hug coming

 

Reminder to self - Do not speed through Springfield, OH, Jeff will catch me.