[CassiesMan]

I was heading to a party last night after doing a photo shoot with my local Mazda club, and being a bit late after picking up a friend, I was driving a wee bit quick. Getting off from one highway and on to another, I saw something up ahead moving equally quick, so I decided to catch up. From a bit of a ways back, I could already tell it was a BMW, I could tell from the exhaust it was definitely an M. As I rolled up on it, I got the confirmation via the badge, the exhaust, and that always interesting rear end that confirmed it to be an M Coupe of the Z3 vintage. I could tell he had an exhaust for sure, most likely that was it.

I roll up next to him going about 70, looked over, and gave him a friendly little nod. My lady friend gave him the thumbs up, and I hear him down shift. I drop from sixth to fourth, and no sooner do I let the clutch out he jumps on it. I nail it just as he puts about a nose on me, and stop his pull pretty fast.

Wind out fourth, slam into fifth at about 85, hold it there, and we are still running doors. 95 clicks by, I have a bit of a nose on him, and it stays that way up through 110. Shut down at a little bit over 115 with my nose just up on him a little bit, I would say his rear view mirror was at my rear door handle.

Followed him a bit more on the highway, and we both take the same exit, line up at the light. I give it a few revs, he does the same. Light goes green, I slip out the clutch from 2500ish...

and hop, spin, and bog out. Traction control+FWD=epic fail. The light up ahead is only about fifty yards though, and by the time I get rolling, I'm pulling him in before we have to stop. Thumbs up and waves all around, he turns of. That was pretty much it for this weekend, we didn't do any pulls or anything at our mini meet. Should have a few good ones next weekend, though, supposed to be a big RX7club meet.