jch364
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Here goes. I was on the on ramp coming up behind an rx8. he sees me coming up and speeds up. as we enter the highway he is blowing blue smoke out the pipe throwing gears to stay just ahead of me. We slow down because of traffic but when a clearing and straight area comes up, i drop down to fourth and give the thumbs up and we take off.
We were doing about 75 when we started. He dusted me and I had the throttle twisted all the way. He pulled ahead about 3 lengths but as I passed about 10k rpms I shifted into 5th and he stopped pulling ahead. We went for just a few more seconds in 5th but shut it down because of traffic. I think we were doing about 130 about that point.
Now, If we had more room i think i would have reeled him in before I got to 6th and passed him. But what is really getting my goat is that he passed me any way. I would have thought that no matter what gear I should have been able to match and beat him on a roll on. Especially with the gear change I had done.
So im a little embarrassed about the whole thing. He was cool about it and gave me the thumbs up at the end and he hit the off ramp but he is probably tellin his buds he smoked a busa....
I have never had the opportunity to do this before so I probably made a rookie mistake somewhere that allowed this to happen. Im thinking I should have started in 3rd or even second so I could have had the rpms up higher so he would not have gotten the jump on me.......Or am i missing something....
Oh and Yes I know that I should not have done it to begin with and yes it was stupid and dumb and blah blah blah. I know. I had a retarded moment but the question is what went wrong if anything...?
We were doing about 75 when we started. He dusted me and I had the throttle twisted all the way. He pulled ahead about 3 lengths but as I passed about 10k rpms I shifted into 5th and he stopped pulling ahead. We went for just a few more seconds in 5th but shut it down because of traffic. I think we were doing about 130 about that point.
Now, If we had more room i think i would have reeled him in before I got to 6th and passed him. But what is really getting my goat is that he passed me any way. I would have thought that no matter what gear I should have been able to match and beat him on a roll on. Especially with the gear change I had done.
So im a little embarrassed about the whole thing. He was cool about it and gave me the thumbs up at the end and he hit the off ramp but he is probably tellin his buds he smoked a busa....
I have never had the opportunity to do this before so I probably made a rookie mistake somewhere that allowed this to happen. Im thinking I should have started in 3rd or even second so I could have had the rpms up higher so he would not have gotten the jump on me.......Or am i missing something....
Oh and Yes I know that I should not have done it to begin with and yes it was stupid and dumb and blah blah blah. I know. I had a retarded moment but the question is what went wrong if anything...?
