Stock FR-S Touge Test!

[WolfsFang]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Here's my 2 cents... isn't this count as "Street Racing" genre? or this count in different genre?

ummm i have no idea how you got street racing out of that vid? As for the OP i see no harm in what he did, looks like he knows the road but not the car yet. Also seems like a dead road since no one travels up it. Their is a road where i live that is just like this, many people do the same thing.

[WolfsFang]

Originally Posted by sho220

Yeah...for a second there I thought it was Senna driving...especially from 2:20 - 2:27... Smoooooth.....

dont know if we are watching the same video but he said he was trying to drift it, so those were on purpose.

[Sambosis]

Just curious... what settings did you have traction control and VSC set to?

[chulooz]

Rookie driver for sure. Looked like fun though.

[S2kphile]

Getting the big because the small one ain't enough.

[sho220]

Originally Posted by WolfsFang

dont know if we are watching the same video but he said he was trying to drift it, so those were on purpose.

Didn't hear him say that. All I could hear was the giggly passenger who seemed to be on acid...

[whaap]

I'm sure we've all been guilty of doing some stupid things in our lives. I know I have. The only thing I would have done differently is not advertise!!

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by WolfsFang

ummm i have no idea how you got street racing out of that vid? As for the OP i see no harm in what he did, looks like he knows the road but not the car yet. Also seems like a dead road since no one travels up it. Their is a road where i live that is just like this, many people do the same thing.

So driving WAY faster than 35mph (speed limit) up/down the road isn't street racing? if it wasn't racing up/down that road, what you call it? Trying to drift down the road? Cruising up/down that road? Touring up/down that road? IDK, maybe I have low English vocab... I need some help here. What do you call that action?

"knows the road, but not the car yet"... Really? That's okay? Who's the driver? Takumi? Bunta or maybe Keiichi Tsuchiya? In my book, that's the worse combination. Seriously, not knowing the limits of the car and drive like that on those kind of road? I've seen countless wreck by this combination. Wrecked drivers states same damn things "Well, with my car, I could taken that corner without problem" or "Well, I didn't know car gonna react that way." Now, after stating that. I know a canyon that I have drove over thousand times in my life, I know it like back of my hand. Let me drive your car and you in the passenger side. Sounds okay to you? Can you give me the key?

I didn't call the driver a moron, dbag, idiot, f'ctard or any other names for his action. I for one did that before (me been young and stupid), racing down touge w Evo V, scratching R32 rear bumper to the wall, so I'll be hypocritical of me to call those names. BUT that doesn't mean as of right now, I agree w his action and not everyone gonna agree w it... well at least I didn't.

On other note: Just checked the youtube site and his note

*Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt.*

...professional driver huh?
...closed course? If that's was the case why driver said "Please look out for headlights. You too now" before driving downhill?

(turn my head side way and walks away from this topic)

[Asterisked Accolade]

It's always a touchy subject when you have someone doing something foolish with the reputation of one's peers at stake.

To drive in such a way (as shown in the video) is to fail to reason responsibly, or to care sufficiently about the safety of the passengers.

If this were on a track or something i would have little to object, but when looking out for motorists' headlights becomes a safety precaution, it's too much. The driver should look into open track days and Performance Driving School-- it may help 'get it out of his system' and teach him to induce oversteer without belligerently jerking the car.

[S2kphile]

Eloquently said @ichitaka05

[artizhay]

Well, technically, by definition, in order to be described as "racing," the event or action must involve another subject of similar comparison which is engaged in competition. So, to call it "street racing" is inaccurate. Rather just blanket "reckless driving."

[dem00n]

Originally Posted by fistpoint

I'm not bashing the OP(looked like fun for the DRIVER), but your statement is woefully ignorant and only holds true under ideal circumstances, specifically ones that don't involve anything out of the ordinary.

A turtle for example could have ruined everything. Do we even venture into animal territory? He didn't swerve into the other lane, great, there was also no one in the other lane. Drunk idiot, texting idiot, cellphone idiot, soccer mom idiot, name your idiot comes around any of those corners, maybe one headlight is out, maybe the dumbass is using DRL's at night.

The point is your statement as well as any scenario any of us have ever been in similar to this and come out perfectly fine almost certainly did NOT include any of the above or below.

nail in the road
2x4
animal
reptile
any debris
oil stain
on and on and on

Your statement is just like saying that every time we go to bed our house would engulf in flames or an airplane will crash in our hours or a drunk driver will drive through our house and kill us. No offense but your statements has to many what if's that can be applied to everyday situations, not just driving. Nice try though.

[LSxJunkie]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

So driving WAY faster than 35mph (speed limit) up/down the road isn't street racing? if it wasn't racing up/down that road, what you call it? Trying to drift down the road? Cruising up/down that road? Touring up/down that road? IDK, maybe I have low English vocab... I need some help here. What do you call that action?

"knows the road, but not the car yet"... Really? That's okay? Who's the driver? Takumi? Bunta or maybe Keiichi Tsuchiya? In my book, that's the worse combination. Seriously, not knowing the limits of the car and drive like that on those kind of road? I've seen countless wreck by this combination. Wrecked drivers states same damn things "Well, with my car, I could taken that corner without problem" or "Well, I didn't know car gonna react that way." Now, after stating that. I know a canyon that I have drove over thousand times in my life, I know it like back of my hand. Let me drive your car and you in the passenger side. Sounds okay to you? Can you give me the key?

I didn't call the driver a moron, dbag, idiot, f'ctard or any other names for his action. I for one did that before (me been young and stupid), racing down touge w Evo V, scratching R32 rear bumper to the wall, so I'll be hypocritical of me to call those names. BUT that doesn't mean as of right now, I agree w his action and not everyone gonna agree w it... well at least I didn't.

On other note: Just checked the youtube site and his note
...professional driver huh?
...closed course? If that's was the case why driver said "Please look out for headlights. You too now" before driving downhill?

(turn my head side way and walks away from this topic)

Street racing, in this country, involves a contest of speed between vehicles. What he did was reckless driving. Driving intentionally in a manner that disregards the requisite standard of care.

However, I agree with your assessment. I was uncomfortable watching that video.

[WolfsFang]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

So driving WAY faster than 35mph (speed limit) up/down the road isn't street racing? if it wasn't racing up/down that road, what you call it? Trying to drift down the road? Cruising up/down that road? Touring up/down that road? IDK, maybe I have low English vocab... I need some help here. What do you call that action?

"knows the road, but not the car yet"... Really? That's okay? Who's the driver? Takumi? Bunta or maybe Keiichi Tsuchiya? In my book, that's the worse combination. Seriously, not knowing the limits of the car and drive like that on those kind of road? I've seen countless wreck by this combination. Wrecked drivers states same damn things "Well, with my car, I could taken that corner without problem" or "Well, I didn't know car gonna react that way." Now, after stating that. I know a canyon that I have drove over thousand times in my life, I know it like back of my hand. Let me drive your car and you in the passenger side. Sounds okay to you? Can you give me the key?

I didn't call the driver a moron, dbag, idiot, f'ctard or any other names for his action. I for one did that before (me been young and stupid), racing down touge w Evo V, scratching R32 rear bumper to the wall, so I'll be hypocritical of me to call those names. BUT that doesn't mean as of right now, I agree w his action and not everyone gonna agree w it... well at least I didn't.

On other note: Just checked the youtube site and his note
...professional driver huh?
...closed course? If that's was the case why driver said "Please look out for headlights. You too now" before driving downhill?

(turn my head side way and walks away from this topic)

for me street racing involves .....you know......another car, because without it who are you racing, your lap time ghost?

Also if anyone questions "omg he could of hit another car" Im 500% sure he would see the other car headlights and stop.

Ill say it again, i think op did nothing wrong, he put no one in danger, the road was DEAD. Also for anyone who bashes him, im 80% sure you did a burn out. So im going to put this through your head. What if their happened to be a rock/sharp metal on the floor when you did that burnout, which then got kicked up from your tire and hit a truck which in turned caused the crash from Finial Destination 2?