Yellow P5 named in street racing accident
March-14th-2002, 12:27 PM
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Re: Intersting clip
Originally posted by Racer91
This is a link to an interesting story thought you folks may like to see.
http://www.ayeu.com/n2o4u/images/cbc_racing.wmv
Not positive the link will work but i think it should.
This is a link to an interesting story thought you folks may like to see.
http://www.ayeu.com/n2o4u/images/cbc_racing.wmv
Not positive the link will work but i think it should.
That guy in the video is stupid, he said that "its not the car that causes the accident, its the driver".
HOW IN THE HELL DOES HE KNOW THAT? If the car is totaled, and the driver is killed, how would you know if something failed? Also, IMO each time you put something new on your car, its also adding risk for something to go wrong, even if you are the best racer in the world...
March-14th-2002, 12:31 PM
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VERY good point! Looks like Jimmy Fung, or whatever his name was (forgot) has to bring his car into the shop every time he needs the oil checked so he wouldn't have a clue if a bolt on his spindle was loose or something and it flew apart at 120 mph.
March-15th-2002, 09:27 AM
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Re: Re: Re: Intersting clip
Originally posted by PseudoRealityX
A good driver "should" have a better chance of keeping a broken car under control, even if something was broken.
A good driver "should" have a better chance of keeping a broken car under control, even if something was broken.
April-7th-2002, 01:20 AM
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i'd pretty much agree with that... if ya wanna race, keep it to the track, and AT the track, get pointers/lessons from ppl who KNOW how to race so you can improve your times...
personally, when i'm on the road, i just like to be "efficient" in my driving meaning yeah, i'll accel faster off the light to get ahead of the car next to me, but if that guy suddenly starts gunning it, i'll just slip into the newly created space behind him!
and i'd never go over 80 in a 50 zone... and i'd TOTALLY never gun it in a pedestrian area like Kerrisdale (for you non-vancouverites, that's where the guy toasted his P5, and it's one of the busiest pedestrain parts of vancouver)... if u've got more cylinders than IQ points, STAY THE HELL OFF THE ROAD!!!
p.s. bout the entrapment thing, in vancouver we have a blue subaru 2.5RS (older model, w/square headlights) that's an undercover cop car, and yeah, if he revs his engine that's entrapment, but here's a story bout the first time i saw it:
i was literally behind the cop and he was just sitting at the light, then a riced up CRV pulled up and gunned it w/screeching tires on the green... within seconds i saw red&blues flashing from out of the tinted windows (it's a pretty light tint). he pulled the guy over right then and there...
and as a further warning for "efficient" drivers in vancouver, the cops are now using all sorts of undercover cars now for laser-radar traps... when i was going to UBC i saw some beat up old brown american car with cops in it tagging ppl... i've also seen a white ford contour... just FYI
personally, when i'm on the road, i just like to be "efficient" in my driving meaning yeah, i'll accel faster off the light to get ahead of the car next to me, but if that guy suddenly starts gunning it, i'll just slip into the newly created space behind him!
and i'd never go over 80 in a 50 zone... and i'd TOTALLY never gun it in a pedestrian area like Kerrisdale (for you non-vancouverites, that's where the guy toasted his P5, and it's one of the busiest pedestrain parts of vancouver)... if u've got more cylinders than IQ points, STAY THE HELL OFF THE ROAD!!!
p.s. bout the entrapment thing, in vancouver we have a blue subaru 2.5RS (older model, w/square headlights) that's an undercover cop car, and yeah, if he revs his engine that's entrapment, but here's a story bout the first time i saw it:
i was literally behind the cop and he was just sitting at the light, then a riced up CRV pulled up and gunned it w/screeching tires on the green... within seconds i saw red&blues flashing from out of the tinted windows (it's a pretty light tint). he pulled the guy over right then and there...
and as a further warning for "efficient" drivers in vancouver, the cops are now using all sorts of undercover cars now for laser-radar traps... when i was going to UBC i saw some beat up old brown american car with cops in it tagging ppl... i've also seen a white ford contour... just FYI
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