Originally Posted by jjeling
I didnt mean for it to turn into this....i just wanted to share some fun. There was no intent to debate which car was faster. It was actually more fun that it was a dead heat on city streets in an uncontrolled environment. Just the two days before that i ran into an f430 and a ferrari maranello and neither of them bit. Im sure they would uave let me know where i stand and would make just about ANY srt vehicle look like poo poo (exception : viper) but it still would have been fun. Thats all i wanted to share.
Yep, and that's all anyone should have taken it for. What you and your car did on that day against that guy in his car. Nothing else matters, really. Everyone else can bench race all freaking day long and guess what? Nobody ever wins a bench race. It's a bunch of BS is all. I've seen so many cars at the drag strip beat cars that the magazines say are faster. But nobody ever goes to a drag strip, loses the run, then gets handed the win because some magazine said the other car should be faster.
Whenever these discussions come up everyone always forgets the single biggest variable - the driver. Hell, even on a road course I've been held up in the twisties by a Mistubishi Evo and a 300ZX Twin Turbo. No, not in my Crossfire, but in my
PT Cruiser. Impossible!!! they cried. I call BS!!! they implored. You're smoking crack!!! they admonished. No, the other guys were simply two of the worst drivers I've ever seen. Thought my instructor was going to bust a gut he was laughing so hard.
Calm down boys. Take two closely matched cars on paper and the driver variables can make it either a great race or a blow out on either side. Straight line or twisty, it doesn't matter.