"Come Race Me Bro" Encounters

[synchromesh]

Last year I decided to partake in what could be called the start of a male fantasy. I pulled a swift U-turn twice to give a hand once to a woman on the side of the highway and once to a stranded woman and her teenage daughter.


What exactly is a Lumina? What exactly is a Concorde?


Sounds like under 20mpg.

[KL]

I never realized quite how much attention this car gets but I've been having these encounters on a weekly basis (in winter no less, as mild as it may be).

Friday night, I'm on my way home after a night out, probably around 2:30 am. I'm cruising at 110 km/h and come up on a black Camaro doing 90. I think nothing of it, switch into the left lane to pass, get 10-20 m ahead of the guy and think to get back over. Nope, as I look in my mirror to change lanes, I see him flying up to and past me.
OK fine, I'll pull in behind you (middle lane) if you suddenly want to do 140. Camaro now brakes to 90 again which means I catch up to him in a hurry (sigh), left lane again it is.

Camaro now paces me in the middle lane, downshifts, nails the throttle, brakes. Does this a couple times before realizing I didn't have the time of day for him. Finally goes away and can't or won't maintain a single speed because I catch up to him a couple more times down the road.

Pretty sure there was a white FR-S behind me the whole time; I saw the female passenger give me quite a long look as that car passed me onto another highway later on (DVP NB to 404 NB).

[Gringosteve]

Originally Posted by Cole

Back when I was in college, I was driving home from class one day. This was right around the time when the new BMW M5 came out, must have been 2010 or 2011. I was at a red light beside one of them, can't recall if it had real plates, dealer plates or test drive plates though. Anyhow, I hear this heavenly sound coming from beside me, and the dude was clearly going to launch it when the light turned green.



I heard a massive screech of the tires, the dude took off like a shot from a gun, lost control, went up onto a curb and into a hydro pole. It was glorious.

That's when you wish you had a dashcam = YouTube Gold

[02.ACCORD.DUDE]

...Had two today, only one was noteworthy the other was your basic driver not wanting to let you pass because of... reasons (???)... I guess...

The notable was with a SUV driver from Pennsylvania who was annoyed I was going 55 in a 55... in the right lane - now I drive this road every day as part of my commute and know that around the bend there's generally a cop car 75% of the time - we turn the bend and there's no cop but we both stop at a red light shortly thereafter.

When we get to the light the car bro revs up hard and takes off... Only for us to meet 30 seconds later at a second red light... At the second light car bro does the same thing, revs and takes off... And 30 seconds later... It's me and him sitting at a third red light

At this point I can't imagine car bro is happy, since these red lights are really cramping his style! And he needs to show me who's boss! Not to be deterred car bro revs and takes off after red light three and opens up a bit of distance...

...Only to have to break hard and rapidly slow down a short while later, as up ahead is a "circle" (a common road feature in NJ but not common elsewhere in the U.S. and virtually unused in Pennsylvania) and at the speed he was going he would have been unable to safely take the turn...

I on the other hand catch up to Car Bro as he's breaking and instead of slowing down, keep my speed steady, and power through the circle leaving Car Bro in a puddle of his rage-induced tears (what I would have given to see Car Bro's face as I passed him)...

As a final piece of karma after the circle there is another light, I managed to get the green but by the time Car Bro clunked through the turn the light had turned red... That was the last I saw of Car Bro.

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[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by 02.ACCORD.DUDE

As a final piece of karma after the circle there is another light, I managed to get the green but by the time Car Bro clunked through the turn the light had turned red... That was the last I saw of Car Bro.

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A roundabout, I have like 4 on the way to my commute now its so much faster however there's a bunch of dumb ass soccer mom and women (not being sexist) and some men in trucks that have no fucking clue how to do it. They either yield to let people enter the roundabout like idiots and honk there horns like completely clueless nubs back at me for honking at them. Or they just blast through the roundabout entrance with no clue that they are supposed to yield it's a hilarious fail.


Edit: NVM, google maps sort of cleared it up SUV thug is a dummy still though

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

In my neck of the woods, I call that my personal drift circle.


Who am I kidding, I'll probably crash within the first 5 seconds.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

Edit: NVM, google maps sort of cleared it up SUV thug is a dummy still though

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

In my neck of the woods, I call that my personal drift circle.


Who am I kidding, I'll probably crash within the first 5 seconds.

Looks like you standard half-mile country stock car track in this neck of the woods!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Looks like you standard half-mile country stock car track in this neck of the woods!

Here as well (if there are any left that is).

[02.ACCORD.DUDE]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

A roundabout, I have like 4 on the way to my commute now its so much faster however there's a bunch of dumb ass soccer mom and women (not being sexist) and some men in trucks that have no fucking clue how to do it. They either yield to let people enter the roundabout like idiots and honk there horns like completely clueless nubs back at me for honking at them. Or they just blast through the roundabout entrance with no clue that they are supposed to yield it's a hilarious fail.


Edit: NVM, google maps sort of cleared it up SUV thug is a dummy still though

It's gets bad on this particular circle when traffic is moderate or heavy, two lanes go into the circle and naturally two lanes come out... Yet you always get out-of-state drivers who want to merge the lanes in the middle of the circle and screw everything up -_-...

[Gringosteve]

You should see the magic roundabout in Swindon, is Brits are masters of the roundabout

[new2subaru]

Originally Posted by Gringosteve

You should see the magic roundabout in Swindon, is Brits are masters of the roundabout

WTH...

[Gringosteve]

We have roundabouts everywhere and a few idiot combinations, but this is by far the worst

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Gringosteve

You should see the magic roundabout in Swindon, is Brits are masters of the roundabout

Who designed that thing? Ezekiel?
(Look it up)

[aslanteye]

Originally Posted by Gringosteve

You should see the magic roundabout in Swindon, is Brits are masters of the roundabout

I don't know about you guys but that thing looks like it would be a ton of fun

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