Technically yes. But it was two lanes that merged into 1, so I had to speed up to get in.

 

i know they whine, it used to be a steady whine and now it sounds like a sprinkler system lol

 

or slow down

Just get a nice haircut, some fancy clothes and go to court.......thats what I do

 

ahh my asian friend. this is one of my HUGE pet peeves. along with driving in the left lane. People, not saying you, but people need to learn to merge. in a merge situation you're supposed to let the car in front of you in your lane and the car behind him is supposed to fall behind you. its not a sign of weakness to let a car in front of you, its the law. again, not saying you did anything wrong, but you 'shouldn't' have had to speed up if people would follow that simple rule. not only that, but traffic would F L O W so much smoother.

 

+1 I hate agressive drivers.. There is a time and place for that crap, driving in traffic is NOT one of them.. I am a very passive driver, but I know how to control my vehicle and beat the living **** out of it when I want to

 

I'm a passive driver. This situation isn't like the expressway where everyone was moving though. I was the guy in the right lane, and everyone else in the left lane. We were all at a light, and I'm the first car in my lane...so do you speed up or slow down? My theory is first in line, and others begind me would be merging also...so I sped up to get in front of the first car in the left lane, giving those following me a chance to get it also.

 

to the tune of 60mph Did you get a danger to manifold warning?

 

No, but I lost my diamond-cut floorpan!!!

 

prove it by coming to an autox

Chu, I think petey needs to DE-tune your so you stay outta trouble. either that or give you a map for reduced power so you can switch it at the track.


speaking of the track, whats going on Friday? is anyone still doing Atco?

 

You gotta be kidding, I can't de-tune my Spoon motor!

I'm likely to go to Atco on Friday unless soemthing comes up...not to race though. I'll be there to capture Ben's 10sec run!

 

I have done quite a bit of autox, but honestly I am a bit of a philly scca hater.. The incident with the focus and how they handled everything really pissed me off. The only event I look foward to doing is the grandview rallyx which I have done before or the allentown sportsfest. For the money everyone pays I think think they should have their game stepped up as far as equipment ect. and if all that money goes to insurance ect. why do they want to hide things like the focus incident if everything is covered.. Am ambulance should have been there











even got video from 2005 autox 2nd place

http://www.streetfire.net/video/3rd-...htown_7299.htm

I'm not sawing I am some awesome autox'r but I have probably done 20 events in my life as far back as 99-00 in my galant, I even did a autox in the snow in upstate NY with Ramana legaman back when he was just a fellow gvr4'er. Honestly I learned much more in car control by myself doing my own thing then any timed event. Where I grew up I would just go to certain places and drive at the limit over and over, and when there is stuff you can crash into it makes you that much more focused on your surroundings and changing conditions . I have had many instructors ride with me, but the only feedback you get is for improving your time..I mean my first autox I did in the video (in the evo) I had a quicker time then the "instructor" has in his sti and he was yelling at me for swinging the back out lol

 

Not that this is the right or nonobnoxious thing to do but in places like where 95 runs in 476 where the left lane ends and everybody pushes all the way up to the very last inch to merge causing a huge back up, I'll sometimes pace slowly in the lane that ends just to get traffic moving again to merge. It pisses a lot of people off but nothing drives me more crazy when I am waiting in traffic in the right lane for ten minutes to have some dick in a BMW drive past you or side swipe you like you don't matter in order to merge 7 cars ahead of where he would if he waited.

I get tempted to behave like this with people waiting in line at the bank just to see their reaction.

 

BTW afaik, everyone is still doing atco.. I probably cant make it but I will try even if I get there late, I have alot of crap to tune that I am not looking foward to, evo's are a different story.

 

BTW MArc, ever see this video, the one that supposively does not exist!
http://www.streetfire.net/video/me-v...s-am_32059.htm

 

let me know if something 'comes up' then. the way my car is setup now it would probably be a good race against Ben's monster. street tires FTL.

yeah, I wasn't there for that one but I kinda heard what went down. I'm not a big fan of keeping things like that hush, hush, but I can also understand they don't want to scary people away either. It really is a safe sport as long as people follow the rules. Thankfully she wasn't hurt. If I'm not mistaken I think everything was worked out with the girl and she actually made out OK in the end.

I've had couple issues with the way the region does certain things, but in the end autox is still the cheapest seat time around... and its a lot of fun.

there are always people who feel like they own the road and they really mess it up for everyone else.

I read a really good artical one time on it. basically it said that people see their cars as an extension of their homes. When you're driving down the road and someone cuts you off, its the same as if some stranger walked in the front door of your house unannouced. you would get pissed if that happened. Road rage is a serious problem, I'm guilty myself, but its usualy when someone takes advantage of a situation because they either don't know how to drive or they just don't give a ****.

BTW, are you going to try and put that newfound power down at Atco on Friday... or do you have yet another excuse???