Originally Posted by nevert00fast,Aug 17 2005, 08:10 AM

This is really strange, that guy must be pretty retarded if it's true. He'd had to turn off T/C to do the burnout, and then turn it back on again before he launches. What a moron....

Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,Aug 16 2005, 11:24 PM

Hehe. Ok, first off, I know damn well that any C5 vette, would/could/should beat me without breaking a sweat.

However. If the driver is as competent as your average mentally retarded monkey, then anything is fair game. And I do mean mentally challenged severely. Like, a monkey that spends all day knitting something that isn't there would have had a better chance than this tool.

I'm driving down the freeway today, and get a yellow C5 behind me on an onramp. He's sticking close to my tail, but gets cut off slightly by traffic and forced to fall back. My exit is actually the next exit, so I stay in the right lane. The guy zips up the left lane, then moves over and gets next to me. He's kinda making it seem like he wants to run, however, my exit is quickly approaching so I put on my turn signal.

The guy slows way down, and moves in behind me, exiting the freeway. I turn left through the green light onto a 3 lane road. I take the left lane and he swoops out to the middle lane and does a ricer fly by.

As we approach the next intersection, there is some grass over on the right side of the road that is being watered by sprinklers. The right lane of the road has a small puddle near the intersection from the overspray. This, is where it gets interesting.

The guy is on street tires, and as we approach the red light, he zips over to the right lane, and intentionally drives into the puddle. I'm like... WTF? I stay in the left lane and as I get there he looks over and revs. He then attempts to do a burnout as if he was in the water pit on the drag strip. Now I'm literally laughing, which of course he doesn't like. His burnout lasts a whopping 2 seconds and he stops, with his nose now already half way into the intersection.

The light prepares to turn and i rev up to 6 grand. The light turns green and I dump the clutch. As I take off, I think he must have left a traction control on or something, because his car bogged way down at the first barely audible squeak and I quickly started pulling away.

THEN, he apparently figured out what had happened and turned off the TCS and slammed the gas. But of course, then he did nothing but spin, and I could hear his tires squealing and see him fishtailing a bit in my sideview. By this point I am laughing and racing away. He eventually starts to slowly catch up, but I shut down at 80mph before approaching the next intersection where traffic was waiting. I had a convincing "lead" to say the least.


Hehe. my first C5 kill.

Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,Aug 17 2005, 09:34 AM

A vette will barely pull in 6th gear, if at all.

and in fact, it will reach it's top speed in 5th gear. when it shifts to 6th it would actually slow down. at least if it's the same as the previous gen vette and f-body cars.

Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,Aug 17 2005, 12:35 PM

what i'm wondering is if maybe he had it off to do his little burnout, and then tried to put it into the competition mode or something, but accidentally put on full blown TCS? or maybe he thought that full blow TCS was the way to go?

haha who the fck knows

Originally Posted by YBS1,Aug 17 2005, 01:58 PM

People who can't drive their Corvette shouldn't be ing with the active handling switch at all.

Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,Aug 17 2005, 12:03 PM

IMO they shouldn't be driving the vette in the first place. lol.