Pretty freakin' funny Options

[JBone]

I was cruisin' through the machv forum and stumbled upon this:
<http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=206707&highlight=dsm>

I'm not the greatest at putting up links. I hope that it worked. It is freakin' hilarious

[gvr4ever]

It takes skill to drive a 2wd car. Front or rear. You can't have a heavy foot and you need to be able to give as much gas as possible without breaking the tires free to the point of spinning too much. It can be a hard line to find. Even harder when you are lined up to race, cuz you only get once chance to get it right. You're on the spot defending you and your car.

It took forever for me to releard how to drive my FWD Talon after learning how to launch my GVR4. To this day, I will still screw it up.

So, the reason we can take higer HP cars so easy is because the drivers have a heavy foot. Or, they are sporting around with tires that suck. I had the chance to drive a M coupe with the traction control off. Wow. In that car, all you had to do was let the clutch out and mash the gas. The awsome rear tires and BMW design did the rest. I've also driving a Camaro Z28 and a Mustang GT. They are slopy compared to a high end car. They are much harder to control and I always feel uneasy driving them hard. I can never trust them. They just feel so damn slopy. It takes a mastered skill to drive a US V8 car really well. Most street racers do not have this.

Most of the time, you are beating the driver, but maybe not the car. This is what it is about, but at the same time, I read too many stories about stock DSMs beating a 5.0. I know it has been done, but chances are the 5.0 had one crappy driver behind the wheel, or the car was badly tunned. A good running stock DSM shouldn't be able to take down a good running 5.0. Some people call there DSM stock after doing the freeby mods. While, they might be free. It doesn't mean the car is stock. In some cases, it might only take the free mods to beat a 5.0, but the car ain't stock. There are just too many variations to street racing.

This is turning into a rant, but I am getting a little tired about reading about street racing stories. Most of them start from a roll, or don't really show that the other car was intending to race. I try really hard not to street race anymore. Did you know you can loose your licence in this state for street racing? All it takes is getting busted once by the wrong cop once. You're safest bet is a HWY race because the speed limit is already up there. Also, it is much more likly that you will just get busted for speeding as drag racing is a race from a stop at a stop light. Kinda hard to bust you for drag racing on the HWY. Still, if you have a real race lined up with someone worthy, try to at least take it to a back road or something. Don't race in town. It's just silly. Unless there is a Porsche reving at you, it prolly isn't worth it.

Rant over. I guess I am just too old for this stuff anymore.

William