Street Racing: Pedal to the Metal on now!
 

looks like a cool show on Discovery Channel right now...Check it out.

Covers a lot of Street Racing topics and legit legal drags too.

oh my.

Sweet Carbon Fiber on the Eagle talon ;)

:lol:

I didn't like where they went with that Talon. All power from Nos, it broke its damn axle. Typical half-ass tuning work, that car has so much more potential. Maybe their time constraints led to that, but???

As far as the Honda went, it seemed to be a lot more mechanically sound, that chick just couldn;t drive it yet.


Either way, big deal on the 9 second 1/8th mile runs. Those cars were both running nos and that was the best they could do??? Weak.

Ok that show really sucked, don't bother...

Turns out that chic ran a 12.4 in that car on the 1/4 mile, now that's more like it...however it blew up shortly after.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Drag racing is for people that can't drive and can't tune. You can build a 10 second car for about $5-6k, but good luck building a champion autocrosser for that, outside of the lower stock classes.

Disclaimer: I will be at Sac Raceway once again this Wednesday (second time ever) because I've suddenly discovered that my RS may just be capable of running 14s. :shock: I'd like to pull that off before I do the swap (and suddenly get into the 12s on a bad day :P).

F-Body + NOS. Straight line FURY!! :lol:

That show hurt my head so bad........


The girl with the Civic blew up her new B16A, and is selling all of those sponsored parts so she can fix the car now :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's a WOMAN for you :lol: :lol: (We are excluding "DKNV from this :lol: )

Yeah, Debbie made me rethink my automatic assumption that women cant drive.

Bad driving by women isn't genetic. It's like when people say "you throw like a girl." What they mean is "you throw like someone who doesn't know how to throw." You looked like that the first time you picked up a baseball or football too, but then someone taught you. Same with driving. Women who have spent zero time attempting to learn how to drive (beyond the skills needed to simply make the car go, stop, and turn) suck just like they suck at throwing- unless they are taught. Don't blame the gender, blame the fact that nobody bothered to teach her.

Dude, I've tried to teach my wife, my cousin, around 6 girlfriends and not ONE of them gets it... its tunnel vision city no matter how hard you try.

Either a) they have no interest in learning, so teaching them won't do squat, or b) you need to send 'em to Skip Barber. :lol:

I bet they didn't like baseball either.

So teach em something different. I taught my sister how to throw a frisbee, and she can now launch one better than any girl I've ever seen... better than most guys I've seen, even. (Keep in mind I haven't attended my first freestyle frisbee meet; I'm sure that will change then :)).

Scott nailed it - they have no interest in learning. Women don't have some innate deficiency that keeps them from learning how to drive a vehicle well, it's just that a majority of them don't care enough about it to learn. There's a shitload of men out there that are piss-poor drivers too. I've read that there is research showing that females are actually innately better than males at jobs requiring fast response, intense concentration, and a high degree of situational awareness; i.e. fighter pilots and race car drivers.

Plus they have bewbies. Women are cool, even though they're PCE.

I knew I was hanging with some enlightened men in here.

Motivation/desire, followed by seat time, and good teachers is how I've been helped. Some measure of competitive spirit is also needed to go with the first & second items. What I don't have as much as many men I've driven with, and what I believe is rarer in women than men, is the amount of nerve it takes to push a car hard or through risky situations - i.e. race car drivers. I chalk it up to chemical variation, testosterone.

Dude!

Do you play Disc Golf?

It's what I do in the summer, Truckee, Tahoe, Cali: Grass Valley, Santa Cruz.

Ohhh NO !!! Dont get Tyson started again .. lol

yeah seriously.

It's all good though.. Just cause I dont know how to Do that .. lol

Not really. I've never been on a real course. Never tried to throw driver discs, either. I've just been fascinated by discs since I was a little kid, and I "figured out" and perfected the sidearm and thumber throws just messing around with the discs. I learned later from a book what the names were and how to throw an overhand. I've always wanted to hang out with some freestyle jammers... been keeping my eyes on a list with a bunch of Santa Cruz members.

Anwyway... enough about my disc fascination. :)

They actually have real courses for that 'sport'!? You cant be serious.

You better believe it! 8)

JoelK: I thorw side-Arm when I play disc golf. I bet you would kick ass the first time you went out b/c of your expierence.

Cool. Sidearm was the first throw I taught myself (after the standard backhand everyone learns). I liked it because I could skim the disc inches above the grass for several yards. The thumber is my best distance throw. I've gotten up to 80 yards on it. I'm not sure how well that throw would do with a driver, though. Oh well... I'm sure I'll find out one day. :)

So they don't do golf in the winter in CA... or you just find better things to do then?

People play golf... but not with frisbees!!!

Watch out, I am draging the topic back slightly to women and driving.

I have helped 50+ year old women who have been driving longer than I have been alive drive well with more confidence, and skill than most of the men out there.

The key is encourageing them, and letting them progress at thier own speed. Ok, maybe they need an occcasional kick to get them to push themselves. :D

In general women will be smoother and more precise in terms of line than men. The intoxication of the speed in general for men keeps them from focusing on being smooth and precise. While men overdrive the car, women tend to underdrive them. Bringing them comfportably both closer to the middle is the challenge.

Now this is not always the case, but is at least a fairly common scenario relative to the sexes.

I'm not going into that planet stuff, but the sexes learn differently. What motivates them is different. Going fast is not a motivator for some, but learning to be safer and better driver on the street might. And once confidence begins to build, you never know how they might progress or what new things might motivate them once they get started.

If you have failed to help someone to learn something, perhaps you should try another approach rather than giving up.

That is my $.02

Its not so much the driving, or the control of the car that I failed in teaching... its to keep your eyes open and not to have freakin tunnel vision.

We know. I can play golf, too... I just can't hit a wood worth anything. :)

Motivation in learning is an important factor. Good point.