my most recent race/chase story

[street_racer_00]

At about 4:30 this afternoon, I was driving home from my psychology 1A class. I was on a 2-lane freeway doing about 70 in the left-hand lane behind a bunch of cars when a brand new red mustang GT coupe blows by me doing at least 90 and accelerating hard. I recognized this guy as a guy I knew from high school who thought he was all that so I decided to try and give chace. I caught up to him when he got stuck behind a slow moving truck in the left lane. When the truck pulled into the right lane, he got all over it, as did I. Now my car can't hang withthe new generation mustang GT from low gear acceleration, so I gave up about 3 or 4 lengths immediately and then the gap leveled out when we got into the high gears. I was tailing him when up ahead was a point in the highway where the lanes go down from 2 into 1, and there were a line of semis. I knew I had no chance to make it so I sorta backpedaled while he kept right in it. Sure enough, he didn't have enough time to merge ahead of the semis, so he hit the brakes so hard that he almost lost control, got completely sideways onto the shoulder, and then dove back in behind the truck, all the time while I was kind of right behind him. That got my heart pumping for awhile, and it certainly woke me up from the mid-term I had to take.:smoker2:

[94svt5.0]

Reckless driver. The new GTs are pretty fast.

[street_racer_00]

Originally posted by 94svt5.0
Reckless driver. The new GTs are pretty fast.

Yes they are, especially the 5-speeds. I knew it was a 5-speed because I saw the car buck hard when he shifted from 3rd to 4th. I've raced two of those blasted things now, and their strong suit seems to be 3rd gear.

[TerminalVelocity]

I would like to run against a '03

Probally loose, ,but hey, whatever.

[street_racer_00]

Yeah they are quick. I can beat one from a dead stop off the line, but once they hit 3rd gear they pull on me like mad, it's crazy.

[RACER D12]

They are nice im thinking of getting one but im more into Rice dont the Gts have 300 and somthing ponys






GOT RICE

[kidrocket]

260

[94svt5.0]

Originally posted by street_racer_00
Yeah they are quick. I can beat one from a dead stop off the line, but once they hit 3rd gear they pull on me like mad, it's crazy.

You beat new GTs until 3rd? Are you sure about that?

[street_racer_00]

uh, yeah, as sure as cancer. I was ahead for about the first 300 feet of the 1/4.

[94svt5.0]

He must of had traction issues. The Gt has a pretty decent power advantage. So, what did you run in the 1/4?

[street_racer_00]

Well it was pretty ghettoized......they only had a watch on the 'stang and he ran a 14.4......I lost by 3 carlengths.....I believe the rule is 1/10 of a second for every carlength, so that puts me at 14.7 give or take. Would like to run at a real strip with lights and everything though

[RACER D12]

What kind of mods you got on your Maxima?

[ales]

Originally posted by RACER D12
What kind of mods you got on your Maxima?

Take a wiiiild guess!

[MadZ]

actually 3 car lengths would make more of a difference than you think, more like half a second depending on trap speeds.

With a poor driver, it's very possible that he could have bogged his launch or spun too much resulting in a pathetic 60' time and causing him to have to play catch-up the rest of the race. (or until 3rd or whatever)

Do you know what your 60' times are street_racer_00?

[RACER D12]

QUOTE]Take a wiiiild guess![/quote]

Theirs actually a lot of things he could have done which could be why he stayed with the GT