So i'm on my way home from a hard days work (Ha!), driving down the highway, left lane, 80-90 mph, as usual. It's dark and raining, kind of a depressing evening. Up ahead I see a 99-04 GT in the middle lane, think nothing of it, and continue on. As I get closer I see it's lowered, has an exhaust, looked like a Cobra to me, but it was too dark and rainy for me to go and say it was. Still I think nothing of it, as its raining, and what type of idiot races in the rain? :grinyes:

I keep going, about 10 seconds later I see Mustang lights weaving between traffic in my rearview. Fast forward a few more seconds and he's gunning it past me at 100 mph or so. So I drop it in 3rd and catch up, put it back in 4th and wait to see if he'll make a move. My windows were opened just a crack which was just enough to hear that deep gasp for air that a cold air intake makes when he downshifted and floored it. Side by side doing 90 already, I decide i'll just leave it low in 4th and gun it.

From about 3-4k rpm I start inching on him as the boost builds...then there was a car in his lane he had to go around. I played fair and let off until he was past it, then back to the floor with the gas pedal. Inching and inching I pull ahead, finally, after what seemed like an eternity, boost builds and I pull a carlength. By the time I shifted into 5th I had ~3 cars on him. I look back and see he pulled in behind me due to traffic up ahead in his lane, so I start to let off, which gains him 2 cars or so. Seeing that he still wanted more carlengths added to his loss, I oblige. I punch it again, since there's straight highway ahead of us for at least another 3/4 miles. I proceded to put a total of 6-7 carlengths on him. When I glanced down at the speedo it read "145". About 3 seconds later I let off and hit the brakes as there was a curve ahead and i'm not curving at 150+ mph (whatever the top of 5th gear on my 6-speed is) in the rain.

I slow back to 80 or so to try and give a thumbs up, but he slows waaay down and won't come even with me. :grinno: Oh well, all I can say is I love my tires :) (The 3800 lb. awd car doesn't hurt either :wink: ) So that was my one highway run for the year. :bigthumb:

Yeah, I wouldn't race in the rain unless i had AWD :D.

145 in the rain?

Not very smart.

145 in the rain?

Not very smart.


Thanks capt'n O. When is 145 on the highway ever really "smart"? :icon16: It's fun in the rain, not earning my masters degree in the rain...now that would be smart. Probably the last time I go that fast with wet pavement...probably...

I always tend to find it odd that we discuss safety in a street racing forum.

Looks like you had yourself some fun, and a good kill.

AWD rain racing FTW, the Gt was trying to race in the rain as RWD? Thats the intellectual 1. Good Kill.

haha. i would never go 145 in the rain...in any car awd or not.

was doing 130mph on the way home from virginia the other day. 130up rt81 and 130 east on rt78 in PA. funny part is a charger srt8 went flying by at like 140. some girl driving with the bf in the passenger seat...we ended up at the same hotel!! an hour later.

and what type of idiot races in the rain? :grinyes:

:1: ......nice kill tho lol

be carefull buddy, it is funny we speak about safety in this forum but safety is first and evn when street racing, we need to be carefull and not do things to add on to the danger were already doing
i wouldnt do it....and that says alot, cause there's a lot of things i would do. but water to rubber is a unpredictable accident. let alone at 145mph

ppl are gonna do what they're gonna do,, so plz just don't put other ppl in jeopardy (passangers or other vehicles on the road) when you do it. i think as long as you don't race in an ice storm you'll be str8.

yup safety first...that includes you're car being able to handle the speed. not some souped up honda with the limiter removed and a better engine. the car wasnt built for speed...tho this is an exception( the vr4 and gt)

ppl are gonna do what they're gonna do,, so plz just don't put other ppl in jeopardy (passangers or other vehicles on the road) when you do it. i think as long as you don't race in an ice storm you'll be str8.

Out of the most rampant curiosity...

Is it that much harder to type out "straight" as opposed to "str8"?

Same with "people" over "ppl"?

we, the human race are so lazy :)

hooray for 145 :iceslolan

I think I'll take her out for one last run at 150 on an empty road before she goes away for the winter :frown:

we, the human race are so lazy :)

ur damn rite...you see what i did there?

A car can hydroplane at speeds as low as 20mph if conditions are right, just imagine what would of happened if you'd hit a puddle of standing water at 145mph.

You probably wouldn't be here joking about it that's for sure.

i've hydroplaned in my old neon at just 30mph...its not funny either...was going around a turn damn near crashed into a tree head on.
how bout this for racing...dont do it in the rain unless ur on a track with safety officials

Out of the most rampant curiosity...

Is it that much harder to type out "straight" as opposed to "str8"?

Same with "people" over "ppl"?

:lol: if it truly does uncomfort you then I'll edit my post

For those of you concerned: Thanks for your concern, it's nice to know i'm cared about :D

For the others: Thanks for the kill congrats :D :D

To clarify a little, it wasn't pouring rain, there weren't puddles of water pooling on the highway, I don't go much above 65-70 in those conditions. It was drizzling and the pavement was wet from the previous rain. After I hit about 130 my wipers stopped working half stroke and I had to shut them off. The wind was my new wiper, windshield was bone dry :D Add that to just about new tires with AA traction in dry/wet and you have my confidence. Don't know what possesed the kid in the GT to do it with me, I wouldn't go that fast in anything RWD with anything but dry pavement...and he was switching lanes! I at least was just going straight.

Also for the record, i've hydroplaned doing 80 in this car on my old tires in moderate rain just switching lanes, scary, but a 3rd gear punch of the gas set me straight. New tires...no slippage so far ;)

o well if it was just slick ground...than just watch the turns. other than that have at it