well it finally happened.

i always wondered would it be considered a "street race" if i was just taking off fastish, and some slow-ass POS was trying to race me without my knowledge. i'm going home friday night, and i'm on 22nd street in ybor. i'm in the right lane and need to get into the left lane to turn. the light turns green, and as i'm about to gun it to cross in front of everyone else, some asshole turns onto the road in front of me. he then takes his time turning out of my way at the very next block. stupid fucktards.

at this point, i'm in 2nd gear going 10mph. my car has the acceleration characteristics of a dung beetle at this speed/rpm combo. i don't feel like shifting, so i just floor it and the car SLOWLY starts picking up steam. i hit 20 mph and there's this loud ass exhaust from the car next to me, well his front bumper is at my rear. finally i'm at 40mph (boost came on around 30) and the lancer (as i later found out it to be) is 1 car back (not bad for a wrx not boosting). i didn't even realize the guy was trying to race me until then. well now i can't just cut over two lanes and slam on the brakes, it's wet and the roads in that area are way too pot holey. so i slam the brakes on in my lane(no one's behind me), flip off the lancer guy, who goes by staring at me like he's some kind of bad ass. cut over and make the next turn. the lancer guy slows down and it looks as if he's wanting to turn around, but he didn't.

luckily no cops were around because i'm sure to anyone else it looked like racing. i would have loved to explain that one, "yes officer, i know he was racing, and i know i beat him, but i was not racing, nor was i aware that he was trying to race me 'til it was over". anyone else ever have this happen to them?

 

yep..driving home from school and an integra with loud exaus is next to me... i take off normal and i hear his tires screech and him liek redline first only gettling like half a car ( i was shifting at liek 3 grand) so i just got on it a little bit, not enough to down shift or anything and stayed beside him as he winded out ihs gears and chirped them lol

 

yep , everytime a mustang gets next to me .they always feel they need to race a import , but mustang flooring it and import cruising and the mustang always throws on his ricer flashes , i just sit back and imagine the conversation when he or she is at there mustang mee..i think its like this { this honda with no loud exhaust was next to me , i looked at him { even though my mustang has dark tinted windows }im sure he cant see me , i floor it and leave that ricer 20 cars...i just laugh everytime i think what the story they tell.....NO OFFENCE IF YOUR ONE OF THOSE MUSTANG OWNERS, if you are , good kill....lol

 

happen to me going down kings coming from the movies, some guy was in a camero and we came to a stop light, i didnt even realize it but my friend sitting next to me did and we took off, and i "winning" til i get a little over the speed limit and I let off it like i always do when i drive and the guy inm the camero blew past me, my friend was like "wtf man why did you let off like that?" and I just look at him blankly til I realized what he was talking about

 

Many times, I think the funniest ever was when I was with my dad in his 5.0 in the early 90's, we came off a light and my dad is just casually running through the gears, then I hear something loud to my right, I look over and this kid is powershifting a N/A eclipse (probably a 1.8 ). My dad's like "is that kid trying to race me?" I said, "I guess" and he just rolled down on it through 3rd and put like 3 city blocks on the kid

 

This happened to me yesterday in Southbound traffic on Dale Mabry near Gunn/Busch.

I'm in the Cobra, and the lady and I are just casually getting back to work from lunch. Leaving a stop light - Boosting about 4 psi, in 2nd gear, I'm meandering through the fast lane, to get over to make my right hand turn (coming up in about 8 blocks or so). Some punk in a First Gen Eclits wannabe (Laser), possibly turbo duno really, couldn't hear his car over my lady laughing. Anyways he's sitting at my door, dropping gears, and bouncing the front end (it's bouncing from him accelerating, and decelerating).. My lady looks at me and says, "This fucking kid can't be serious?! Can he??" Then, "Buddy, you haven't the first fucking clue." I was shocked.. She never encourages braggin rights or showing off or anything of the sort.. Kinda funny!

Good news was, we got in front of him, and made our turn.. All while continuing to drink my milkshake, and never downshifting or hitting even half boost..

JP