View Poll Results: What's your itch?
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1/4 Mile Drag Racing
12 5.74% -
1 Mile Pulls
1 0.48% -
Tight Autocross Course (~0:15 per lap)
2 0.96% -
Big Autocross Course (~1:00 / lap)
29 13.88% -
Road Course Solo Lapping / Track Days
50 23.92% -
Road Course Wheel to Wheel Racing
30 14.35% -
Hillclimbing
0 0% -
Open Road / High Speed Events
16 7.66% -
Deceleration Events
1 0.48% -
Street Performance (it's legal to dream)
30 14.35% -
I just like to cruise
34 16.27% -
Other / This thread ignored me
4 1.91%
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Thread: What Drives You?
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07-19-2010 #1
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What Drives You?
I'm looking for, when you're day dreaming about driving your car, where do you most often picture yourself ripping it up?
Are you chasing down a GT3 through the esses at Infineon, trying to break 180mph at Maxton, showing Mary Pozzi how 0.2 faster is done on the Peanut, or doing your best Big Red impression across the silver state?
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07-19-2010 #2
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Ummm all of them
Haven't had a chance to autocross or road course it yet but i did buy it with those options in mind
I have had it out to the drag strip a few times and just came back from a road trip in the Mountains. Found some good twisty roads to have lots of fun with !
Bought the Mustang basically because I can dabble in AutoX, Road Course Track Days, Drag strip and still Daily Drive it ! Gonna be at least a year or so before I get a house with a garage so I can build something more fun !
I dream of it all but ultimately spirited driving with friends to the surrounding area car shows and late night cruises is usually what I'm thinking about most of the time ! Also ever car I wanna build has cross country road trips in mind ! Here's what happens when you road trip in the Rockies ... there's all these big open parking lots/rest stops with no car in them !!!
Barry N [05 Mustang GT] [91 Nissan Hardbody]
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07-19-2010 #3
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Steven, I have a suggestion. You may want to change the setting on your poll so people can vote for more than one. I personally have several on that list that applies to me and my cars.
Bill
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07-19-2010 #4
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Me too.
Originally Posted by Bill Howell
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07-19-2010 #5
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I like taken the broken, forgotten, and ignored and make it new and usable again while learning new things along the way.
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07-19-2010 #6
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Then I think most people would vote for 9 of em, including myself. I tried to make it a "I can't do without this" poll. Originally Posted by Bill Howell
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07-19-2010 #7
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cool, no problem.
I will try and pick one now...hahaBill
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After having progressed from street racing to drag racing, auto cross on short course and then Dwarf cars on dirt and asphault, I dream of going wheel to wheel on a road course... But reality will probly only do auto-x and a couple track days with friends.....
If Vegas area had hill climb I'd like to try that too....Kurt G
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07-19-2010 #9
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I autocrossed my last car once and was hooked from there on out. I would love too (when my bird is done) to get into some more autox, road racing, and even some road trips to other events in other states.
Chris Smock aka Blazed67
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07-20-2010 #10
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I like big high speed tracks that really let a car open up a breath, but my favorite is staged several hundred mile closed public street races like the Targa series.
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07-20-2010 #11
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I like the road course circuits. I'm 5 minutes from donington and as soon as it reopens the Trans Am will be booked on for a day.
The autox is ok, and fills a small hole, but it's nothing on a track day. Drag racing soon gets boring IMO. I think i'd want a seriously fast car to keep my interest in that.'79 Trans Am W72 400/4spd Y84 S/E with WS6 T-Tops LSD AC OK?
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Bigger autocrosses are the best fit to my skill level and budget, so that's what I do most...
Derek Kiefer,
Mantorville, MN
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I love all of it, but Track Days with long sessions really get me fired up. With lots of laps to learn the course and push the car to its limits, I really feel like I gain something from it. The seat time, the track time, and the chance to make adjustments and dial the car in are golden.
I love the drags and the autocrosses for the same reasons, but a lot of times you just don't get a slew of laps at those deals. Sometimes, sure...and its great when you do...but Track Days seem to offer the most on-track time in my experience. LOVE that...Scott Parkhurst
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You should have also included a choice of events like RTTC/RTTH, they have the option of multiple different things. I would have checked off darn near all of them but picked open track day.
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I don't know where, or when; but I always imagine trading paint on a big road course! One day...
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You don't have paint to trade! It would be stealing paint for you!! Originally Posted by Nessumsar
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Do you still believe in all the things that you stood by before? Are you out there on the front lines, or at home keeping score?
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Originally Posted by 6'9"witha69
you don't have paint to trade! It would be stealing paint for you!!
Stay in it till you see God....then lift
Where patience fails, force prevails
"When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat." G. Carlin
Stapp's Ironical Paradox...... "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."
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Just because it came out of a can doesn't mean it's not paint... .... even says so on the can..... Originally Posted by 6'9"Witha69
You don't have paint to trade! It would be stealing paint for you!!
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What... no mention of gravel rally? Seriously.
Truth is that, like most folks, I like to (or would like to) do most, if not all of the events listed, plus a couple; gravel rally included.
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Open road in front of me for as long as the human eye can see. Some serious driving music so loud that the sound of my headers is the only thing that can over-power it. Black leather gloves, cheap sunglasses' no cops....no need to look at the speedometer.....Ok, Frank! Frank! Wake up now!!
Frank
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