I'm having a hard time understanding this. Why do people always speed pass me when they see my car? As in, they would start gunning the car and blow pass me on streets when I'm just driving at speed limit going home at night?

Just now I was on my way home and saw a GTR in front driving slowly. Then he stopped to pay for toll to go into the tunnel. I have an electronic toll tag, and just drove past the toll booths (and the GTR). So I drove @ 80km/h (the speed limit) towards the tunnel, and this GTR just gunned it all the way. His car was LOUD, sounds like he's got some loud aftermarket exhaust, and it actually sounded like a Ferrari towards redline!

Anyway, by the time he caught up, he was probably doing somewhere around 150km/h -- if I counted correctly, he was at the end of 3rd gear shifting into 4th gear. Then he went on and went to somewhere in 5th gear before braking so hard(so that he won't hit the cab in front) that his car was fishtailing a little and almost crashed into the cab.

I drove past the GTR again @ 80km/h (the cab driver probably figured out the GTR was fricken nuts, so the cabbie slowed down). The GTR looks like it was tailgating the cab, but didn't want to change lanes at first because the tunnel had double solid white lines ... after I got a bit ahead of him, the GTR downshifted to a low gear and gunned it again. This time his was changing lanes left and right in the middle of the tunnel ... he clearly didn't sound like he's a good driver, because it sounded like he was dabbing the throttle even through turns. Luckily his car is quite bulletproof and can take that kinda rough inputs, but even so, from behind, I really felt like he's gonna crash ...

Anyway ... he went really far again (probably hitting somewhere in 4th or 5th gear again) and I could hear that he upshifted and probably slowed down, because I could no longer hear his exhaust.

Things like this happen from time to time when I'm just driving normally at night. And it's clear that those drivers are gunning their cars after they saw me. I have seen M3s, 997s, etc ... doing that to me. As a matter of fact, a 997 GT2 did that to me as well. I mean, it's clear that:

a. his car is much faster
b. I most likely won't pick a street race given that I'm driving @ the speed limit

Anyhow ... I'm just wondering ...

 

sounds to me like he was having some not-so-safe fun in his car, and you just happened to be nearby. i dunno why you assume his antics had anything to do with you.

 

Sounds like a bad driver to me. File under the same category as the yahoos who are driving slow and then track your speed as you go to pass them, or do pass them, and they tailgate you for a mile or two until a curve comes around and they slow down.

 

[QUOTE=thebig33tuna,Apr 30 2009, 02:10 PM] sounds to me like he was having some not-so-safe fun in his car, and you just happened to be nearby.

 

people show off need to show off.... boring stuff

 

Being the fastest colour (GPW) doesn't help your case either.

 

Plenty of people are daydreaming when they drive but want to be 'first.' When you pass by they wake up and want their place back. It isn't necessarily showing off or hating you, just driving dicks with weak awareness.

 

Powerbullies

 

I sympathize. I have had a lot of people attempt to 'bait' me lately, and it has grown to be so frustrating that I am having a hard time not giving in and taking the bait....somehow I am holding strong.

 

i get that too, but its usually sedans and minivans for some strange reason