Originally Posted by Skyshadow
Bladecutter, calm down dude... live your life a little. what you call stupid I call exciting and what you call careless I call courageous. As for hitting another car on a back country mountain road at 1am with a lead car running 1/2 ahead on comm. is really unlikely. BUT, I see what your saying.
Ha!
Oddly enough, I live my life quite well, and enjoy it fully.
I spent enough time on the track this summer with my car, my gf Bat with her Crossfire, and a couple of other friends to know not only what our cars can do, but what we as drivers can't do.
5 track days in the Boxster, Crossfire, and a GTI all tell me that I have a better clue what I'm doing behind the wheel now than I did a year ago. I can tell when the back end of my car is stepping out, and I know how to bring the rear end of a Porsche back under control after its stepped out, which isn't a small feat.
And yet I still get to play up in the mountains, tearing them up with glee, and yet, I never need to cross over the center lines, and put anyone else's lives in jeopardy during my drives.
Here's the videos to prove it too:
This one is 4 laps of High Plains Raceway:
YouTube - hpr trackday
Here's the first video we took shortly after getting the Crossfire:
YouTube - Baseline RD 11-28
And a couple more videos:
YouTube - Magnolia Road
YouTube - Sugarloaf Road
YouTube - Sugarloaf Road headed down
Notice that there wasn't any double line crossing, nor was there any hitting of guardrails, or replacing of body panels required. I bet I had more fun than you did, too.
Notice the lack of guard rails in the track video, no double yellow lines to cross over, not to mention the considerably faster speeds, tighter turns, elevation changes, and the fact that there is plenty of space between cars to prevent massive accidents.
Thats why at the track, no one seems to mind sharing the road regardless if you are driving a Ferrari 430, Honda Civic, a Porsche GT3, VW GTI, or a '98 Boxster. We all get to have fun, while pushing our cars harder and harder with every lap, and no one has to have a wrecker called to bring them back home afterwards.
So my life is pretty damn good.
Concentrate on your own for a while.
Your "Exciting" and "Courageous" choices are endangering people's lives.
Yours, your friend's, and whomever the poor soul is that gets caught up in your antics.
BC.