Last night my g/f and I are driving home from a concert. I'm in the Mazdaspeed3 which is no slouch in the speed department. What pulls up next to me but Joe Hair Gel with his dime sized glittery ear ring and his sorority girl in the passenger seat. Trouble is..he's driving a Porsche GT something.
I look over at him and I'm smiling. I was having fun ya know? I'd just seen Delta Spirit and The Shins. Not my usual kind of music but it was a really good show all thanks to She Who Believes In Going Dutch in my passenger seat. Maybe my grin was misconstrued.
As the light goes green he punches it, cuts in front of me, and proceeds to accelerate away.
Let me build the environment. We're on a city street with two lanes in one direction. The intersection we are at crosses 4 lanes of city street (two each way) and dumps right into a local urban college (Virginia Commonwealth Univ) which has it's own police force that patrols something like 10 city blocks. In other words there is a high likely hood of police presence.
I was sorely tempted to at least test the Speed3 vs the Wunderkind but my more adult side took over and I let him go. The lights were such that we stayed close by but never were window to window.
The reason I mention being window to window is I had decided to invite him to the VIR trackday I'm going to on May 22nd. It's a Porsche Club event so he'd be more than welcome. Then I started thinking, why not make up some cards that say something to that effect? On one side have my name and the cars I campaign. That way they can find me to settle our "score". On the other side I could list the events I will most likely attend.
Maybe a solution to being a complete idiot and street racing.
Also, it becomes a test of skills and car vs a test of who's willing to break the most laws.
