Are you the best driver in your friendship circle?

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Do you see yourself the best driver in your friendship circle?

  • Yes

    Votes: 60 72.3%

  • No

    Votes: 23 27.7%
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Many studdies e.t.c. shows that men think they drive better than they really do. Please be honest and really think about it. Of course it's ok to answer if you are a girl aswell.

Do you see yourself as the best driver in your friendship circle?

edit: To the No-answerers, please reply who it is that is better.
 
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It really depends. My friends & I have never actually done anything that shows any of us being a better driver. We all pretty much drive the same way, obeying laws & what not, and sometimes making the rare mistake.
The only thing I really know more than them would be how to take the best possible line through corners & braking points on the back roads commonly used by locals for sport driving.

But, out of all the people I know, no, I'm not. One of my friends has a lot of seat time in his M3 & he's pretty much always spending his weekends out somewhere working on the car, so I'm pretty sure he can run circles around me very easily.
 
I think I would be second, personally; mostly because my friend Andrew is a bit better at driving stick than I am (I'd say we were roughly equal otherwise).
 
I would say i am, based on the factors of my confidence behind the wheel, my clean record (besides some parking tickets for empty meters if you want to count that), never being towed or in an accident, and the care i take for my car. I'm also the only one in my circle who knows how to drive stick. Cool, but not necessarily good if anything were ever to happen and a friend would need to drive my car. :lol:
 
Yeah, my friends in general have either very little seat time or basically no interest in actual driving.

Giancarlo
I'm also the only one in my circle who knows how to drive stick. Cool, but not necessarily good if anything were ever to happen and a friend would need to drive my car. :lol:
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Yeah, I’ve turned down a number of drinks because of that. I should probably teach my teetotaler friend how to drive stick…
 
I've got a friend who works part time doing race-prep for a very high-level track toy, is building a racecar himself and has been shown interest to be taken on as a driver full-time in a national series. He's pretty quick.
 
It's so weird hearing people who cant drive stick. Here in Sweden it's almost the only way to go. I've driven a total about 100 000 km in my life with all sorts of different cars. About 500 of those are with an automatic gearbox.
 
All my friends are stuffed animals. So yes.
 
kekke2000
It's so weird hearing people who cant drive stick. Here in Sweden it's almost the only way to go. I've driven a total about 100 000 km in my life with all sorts of different cars. About 500 of those are with an automatic gearbox.
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Unreliable autos are all the rage here in Amerikka.
 
No. I will always feel more comfortable driving myself than having somebody else driving, even if they're very good. But I have a couple other friends who really are very good at driving their cars. They're so good that I'm not really scared that they were the ones who taught me to drive.
 
Undoubtedly yes. Sure, we may all own and drive sport compact hatches and coupes, the others tend to get in more trouble and have more accidents than they should. That, and I don't think they drive stick right... But that's just me. They're young, of course, so I usually let it slide. That is, until I nearly die trying to get some groceries with them.
 
It sort of feels wrong to judge your own abilities in this way and then say "yeah, I'm best" as I'm uncomfortable bigging myself up (unless it's in a job interview... needs must and all that).

If I'm honest, I'm not sure. Many of my friends don't drive and those that do aren't particularly "enthusiastic" drivers. They like driving and a few of them have nice cars, but aren't really bothered about performance driving. I'm the only one of them who's had any track time, and given that I'm the one with the slowest car, I'm the only one who can comfortably take my car to it's limits on the road without fearing for my licence!

I do take my driving seriously though, whether I'm trying to extract maximum economy from my car or whether I'm pressing on. And passengers have complimented me which is a good sign.

On a related note, the piece of driving from a friend that impressed me most was from one of my female friends. She was giving me a lift home once in her Seicento Sporting, a bit like this one, and she drove very well indeed. Always in exactly the right gear, very smooth and quick gearchanges and used the revs well, made good progress, not timid but not overconfident either - I was just really pleasantly surprised given that she has no more than a fleeting interest in cars. It's not often I get in a car and think "actually, they're driving really well".
 
Of all my friends, I am the only person who

A. Has never been puller over
B. Has never wrecked my car
C. Never had someone puke all over my backseat
D. Knows where my car is.
E. Knows where my license is at all times.

All of my friends have speeding tickets, wrecked their car, Got a DUI/ suspended license, etc....

My car is also the cleanest and doesn't have any cracked windows.
 
Absolutely. But it depends on your definition of best driver. I'm certainly not the most cautious driver.
 
Danoff
Absolutely. But it depends on your definition of best driver. I'm certainly not the most cautious driver.
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Agreed.

It also depends on what type of driving you like to do. I have a friend who is big into off-road driving and rock crawling and all that. I don't have a clue what sort of tricks those guys use.

Another friend drifts his 240, and is clearly one of the best at it in the area. I have never had a chance to try that kind of driving, so I imagine I'd suck at it.

But besides the drifters, I'm pretty much the only guy in my big car group who has ever taken their car out to the track, either to play around or to compete. It seems like nobody around here has a passion for learning new skills and perfecting techniques and all that stuff.
 
i think id have to say yes. Given all my years of sim racing i know a lot of theory and having been to the go kart track a few times and completly run rings around my mates because of correct lines and proper weight shifting etc etc. So i think if we had to drive a car around a track and see who has the fastest time, it would be me i guess.

Does that mean im the best driver? not sure.. depends what you mean by best.
 
In real life, I think KLR142 would take me down pretty easily (he actually races his Volvo at PIR :tup). But in go karts were pretty much even and in GT I would give myself a slight edge especially in GT5P (cause he doesn't have a PS3 haha).

Jerome
 
Not even close to being the "best". But i am a lot better than a lot of people i know based on everyday driving scenarios. But i also know a lot of folks with considerably more track experience than myself.
 
I dunno, maybe not. I'm in the top tier, but I'm not sure if I'm actually any better than them.

I'm definitely not the best navigator, though, and I'm not the best at driving in the city, which might give a couple of others the edge.
 
Spock
Of all my friends, I am the only person who

A. Has never been puller over
B. Has never wrecked my car
C. Never had someone puke all over my backseat
D. Knows where my car is.
E. Knows where my license is at all times.

All of my friends have speeding tickets, wrecked their car, Got a DUI/ suspended license, etc....

My car is also the cleanest and doesn't have any cracked windows.
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Strange. I don't remember changing my name to Spock and posting that... :p

Obviously I completely agree with the above, except for the never been pulled over bit (snagged me for my tint). That said, I'd give myself a:

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Besides. How hard can you push a Civic to 30mph on your 4 mile drive to work down nothing but residential streets?
 
I'm undoubtedly the best driver among my circle of longtime friends.
However, since I've started autocrossing I now know many people from the clubs I run with. I would be kidding myself to even consider the idea that I'm the best driver there.
 
I believe I am, all my friends are not even slightly interested in cars.:lol: Also I am 14 so none of my friends have driven anything "real", I've done karting but that's it. On GT5P I am definetely faster than them.:D
 
I believe I am also, I'm 14 and none of my friends are interested in cars. I also have more experience, not only from karting but from driving around a farm aswell in a subaru outback (fun fun fun).
 
Same boat here, and I also have actual experience in a car. Obviously, not on public roads, that'd be stupid, but I was romping through a parking lot under the supervision of an adult in an SLK230. Not to mention my karting experience, and that my friends are not into cars.

If we are talking about racing, I was 4,000th on the all time leaderboards on FM2, if that's saying anything. And I'm self taught.
 
I would be the best driver in my group but my mate runs a close second. Depending on the car we have he's better at some manouvers than I am and other cars I run rings around him.

I consider good drivers by their skill level behind the wheel, not whether they have zero tickets or what not. That's called being lucky and driving an inconspicuous car.
 

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