Same here. State of North Carolina declares me "legally blind without the use of corrective lenses". In the Army, if it had gotten any worse, I wouldn't have been able to turn the diopter ring anymore to gun a tank. And to think I was _THIS_ close to getting me some cheap disability pay. Oh well, there are other people more deserving of that money.
Anyway, you also left out "hill climbing" as a form of racing. That's catching on over here. Basically they find a big mountain and time people's run driving up the mountain as fast as they can. Also heard it's popular in the states too, only I think it's a rally-type thing over there. Here it's on paved roads. And rich bastards with F1-type cars.
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Yo man. I put some 36 inch wheels on mine a month ago for the new 50 cent video. It was fsckin' baller.
hell yeah, WTF is up with all these pussies that won't race where you pass two, three, four wide in the corner's......raceing isn't a test of driver skill if your too chicken to test yourself with other car's inch's away from every body pannel...
ya'll can keep your solo drive's in drag and auto-cross...and only passing 1 at a time in the streight's of road raceing...some of us are real men with beat up car's to show it.
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no matter what kind of racing it is there's always one objective: get from point A to point B faster than the other guys. so pretty much any kind of racing works for me
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hell yeah, WTF is up with all these pussies that won't race where you pass two, three, four wide in the corner's......raceing isn't a test of driver skill if your too chicken to test yourself with other car's inch's away from every body pannel...
It's not about being chicken driving inches from someone else at speed....it's that we're bored with that....we do it everyday in Los Angeles...the only difference is that we have to turn left AND right!
Don't get me wrong...there's skill involved with passing someone 3 wide at 170mph...just not much! The only exception is Robby Gordon....he just races Nascar to pay for all his other racing habits...like Baja!
I like to drag race, personally. Love seeing NHRA races in person.
Autocross in nothin more than learning how to dodge deer in a Civic.
Raod racing is for the rich, if I could afford it I'd do it.
Rally racing is boring to watch, hardly any passing, racing the clock and a map, its pizza delivery driving in Arkansas. It would be fun to do, no arguing that. But, how can they line the woods just to see a car every 5 minutes. Also, how do they know who won 20 k away from the finish?
Nascar is boring too, but takes a lot of skill to do. I've seen Jeff Gordon in an F1 car at the F1 Indy track, and after 5 laps was within a second of the qualfying time. So yes, they can drive very well.
F1 takes skill, but I rarely see lead changes at all, they really need to tighten up that racing. And, I won't watch it until an American races in it again.
Now I dont want to start a brawl, but I never saw the point in buying a Turbo 2.4 for drag. If you want good 1/4 mile time buy a big motor, and a light chassis, and weld them together. If you want to test, tune, and tweak, by a sport compact or econ sport.
Conclussion (I feel I need to say this twice): If I want a cheap 1/4 time I would pull the 2.4 out and drop a 454 in and make the sucker RWD. ($3000 after fab. and parts if you know who to call and happen to weld) Im sorry but Im with auto-x and road race (and aheem! street *cough cough*)
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It's not about being chicken driving inches from someone else at speed....it's that we're bored with that....we do it everyday in Los Angeles...the only difference is that we have to turn left AND right!
racing :)
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