"Come Race Me Bro" Encounters

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Overdrive

Not sure I can agree there, at least not entirely. Indeed if I were driving like I had the fastest thing on the street someone out there in a Grand Caravan is going to put me in my place until the road stops going straight, lol.

Same color as you, just not as noisy, and I drive and commute very tame, contrary to my car's appearance, and yet frequently get people trying to mess around while I'm literally locked at the speed limit using cruise control, in the right lane, in 6th and barely making a sound compared to all you manual owners at the same speed and gear. On any given night and/or planet alignment I'll get some assclown in a G37 coupe, or a BMW 3-series, or some guy who just had to put giant fart cannons on the back of his S2000, trying his damnedest to get my attention and see if I'll be stupid enough to go along with him. Match my speed and get alognisde me, gun it for a few seconds, see that I'm not doing anything different. Rinse and repeat for a mile. No cops to be found at times like these, of course.

But let me even appear to be speeding because my car's low slung and bright orange, Smokey will pull me over and try to ruin my day instead of the grey Accord in front of me that was indeed speeding. I think it's more of a YMMV situation and not just how the car is driven.

I have never experienced any of those things.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have never experienced any of those things.

Ditto that.

I've driven red sports/pony cars most of my driving life, and have never gotten stopped by the cops in one. I have had stops and a couple of tickets, but they have always been in the family hauler, usually when I was driving "normally" but at a bit too high a speed.

I did get a ticket once on a motorcycle doing 39 in a 35 (really?!?).

It may be I'm more diligently looking for "hot spots" when driving a hotter car, or that I don't tend to do "really stupid" things in them on busy streets, reserving most of my antics for back country roads or empty stretches of freeway.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Ditto that.

I've driven red sports/pony cars most of my driving life, and have never gotten stopped by the cops in one. I have had stops and a couple of tickets, but they have always been in the family hauler, usually when I was driving "normally" but at a bit too high a speed.

I did get a ticket once on a motorcycle doing 39 in a 35 (really?!?).

It may be I'm more diligently looking for "hot spots" when driving a hotter car, or that I don't tend to do "really stupid" things in them on busy streets, reserving most of my antics for back country roads or empty stretches of freeway.

According to some driving a top trim Corvette, Mustang, Camaro, etc must be a horrible ordeal of non stop pull overs. Expect to see any in a bright colour followed by at least 3 cruisers and a horde of people trying to race them.

[OMEN]

some of them can be jerks i agree
but most of them are cool, at least from what i see in my country and area

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Dude in a Wrangler (!) at Jane and Wilson starts tailgating me at midnight lol. I'm sleepy trying to get home. Drop a couple gears and gave it a go and it was just sad. It looked like he wasn't even accelerating. I gave up and let him tailgate me. Drove nice and slow. I took express and he took collectors, and when I got off express to dvp, guess who came up right behind me again, STILL TAILGATING! Yep, Mr. Wrangler. Didn't even bother. Here I am passing out and he's got mad energy to dart in and out of lanes and tailgate for like a 20 km stretch. Smh

[qcbaker]

Driving back from my lunch break today on a clear stretch of highway, some dude on a Yamaha FZ (couldn't tell the engine size, but definitely an 07 or 09) rode up close behind me, so I moved into the right lane to let him pass. He then paced me and pointed forward to get me to race. There was nobody else around, so I figured why not have a little fun. Downshifted to 5th with a rev match to let him know I was game, then downshifted to fourth and away we went. Kept up with him for the most part, but I think I was just a little ballsier than he was. He would've won in an actual serious race, I'm sure. Still, a bit of mid-day fun to break up the monotony of work.

[Clipdat]

Why are you posting about participating in street racing?

Originally Posted by qcbaker

Driving back from my lunch break today on a clear stretch of highway, some dude on a Yamaha FZ (couldn't tell the engine size, but definitely an 07 or 09) rode up close behind me, so I moved into the right lane to let him pass. He then paced me and pointed forward to get me to race. There was nobody else around, so I figured why not have a little fun. Downshifted to 5th with a rev match to let him know I was game, then downshifted to fourth and away we went. Kept up with him for the most part, but I think I was just a little ballsier than he was. He would've won in an actual serious race, I'm sure. Still, a bit of mid-day fun to break up the monotony of work.

[qcbaker]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Why are you posting about participating in street racing?

Lol isn't the whole point of this thread to share stories about when people asked you to race? Also, what do you think is gonna happen, a cop is gonna read this and give me a ticket? Calm down, deputy.

[Clipdat]

It says right in the thread title "FR-S / BRZ vs.... Area to discuss the FR-S/BRZ against its competitors [NO STREET RACING]"

Originally Posted by qcbaker

Lol isn't the whole point of this thread to share stories about when people asked you to race? Also, what do you think is gonna happen, a cop is gonna read this and give me a ticket? Calm down, deputy.

[qcbaker]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

It says right in the thread title "FR-S / BRZ vs.... Area to discuss the FR-S/BRZ against its competitors [NO STREET RACING]"

That's the sub-forum title, not the thread title, but I can see how you would be confused. The thread title is ""Come Race Me Bro" Encounters", which is exactly what I posted about. If you're that upset about it, tell the mods to move this thread, which is entirely about street racing or at the very least people attempting to get you to street race, to Off-Topic or whichever sub-forum will make you feel better.

[Clipdat]

I think you might be the one who is confused. Go take a read about the expectations for threads created within this subforum: https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2145

Originally Posted by qcbaker

That's the sub-forum title, not the thread title, but I can see how you would be confused. The thread title is ""Come Race Me Bro" Encounters", which is exactly what I posted about. If you're that upset about it, tell the mods to move this thread, which is entirely about street racing or at the very least people attempting to get you to street race, to Off-Topic or whichever sub-forum will make you feel better.

[qcbaker]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

I think you might be the one who is confused. Go take a read about the expectations for threads created within this subforum: https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2145

I didn't make this thread dude. It's like 5+ years old with 100+ pages of people talking about street racing.

Like I said, if that rule is so important to you, PM a mod and ask them to move the thread lol.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by qcbaker

I didn't make this thread dude. It's like 5+ years old with 100+ pages of people talking about street racing.

Like I said, if that rule is so important to you, PM a mod and ask them to move the thread lol.

Read the OP. This thread is supposed to be about idiots challenging people to race, not idiots accepting challenges.

Moral of the story: Street racing is dangerous to other people and illegal. Police know how to use the internet, don't drag the rest of us into it by bragging about illegal activity.

[TorontoNat]

Originally Posted by qcbaker

then downshifted to fourth and away we went..

For highway pulls from 100 that shouldn't be happening at all in the first pace … 3rd gear is best.