tom every word of yours makes my mouth dribble with jelousy. Even though im too young too drive still.
and when i look at the cars you own, jeese... i cant explain!
Thank you for the mouth dribbling. How old are you since you're too young to drive... start now, just don't get caught.
Y'know..I would only be so lucky as to WATCH a race, let alone think it's nothing to race, as you do..Its crazy..
Well I've been doing these battles for a long time now... they're just things to do that get me away from the life of boredom. A lot of people asked me if I'm nervious, but to be honest... now I'm not. When I first started, I was extremely nervious, because my reputation is based on my driving skills. I did great my first battle and I wasn't nearly as good as I am today and I still impressed a lot of the spectators. Time after time I was challenged and it just became a habit that every weekend, I'd at least race once. It's been slower for me lately since I've been so busy with the cars.
Tom, what is your usual corner entry and exit speeds for those hairpins? My stock accord can't go more than 60 kmh
EDIT: Oops, wrong conversion. I can only go 40 kmh (that's 25mph)
Depending on the circuit or touge. Well let me think. If you've played Kaido Battle or watched Initial D you will be familiar with Iroha-zaka. If you're not familiar with it... it's a barrage of hairpins that just keeping coming at you. What I do, is this: The first hairpin comes after a few S-curves which I'm still accelerating on. I start braking at 120-140km/h, and start to slide into the corner while the street is still going straight. I downshift to 2nd gear and take the turn at around 60-80km/h. It's hard for an exact amount because I'm not focusing on my speedometer so I might be off by a few km/hs. An Accord is not going to get incredible entry speeds because of weight and mostly it's drivetrain. How long have you been racing mountain passes?
OK Tom.... thats it! You gotta get yourself a Camera now and take photos of yourself, your car, your dad, and maybe your ownself on some of the touges..... because all the stuff that you talk about just made me go "h*ck! IS it real???"
No offence, its just that all this sounded too familiar with the "Initial D thingy" don't you think?? Sorry.. I just getting anxious to WATCH it rather than read it....
I get that a lot. Especially the Initial D thing, but you have to realize that the cartoon is basically the closest thing to real life... other than the drivers and things like that. But it uses the same system as the cartoon.
Okay, now that that's done... here's what happened tonight. The guy who e-mailed me has an AE86 Levin. I knew this before I saw it. I also knew it was pretty quick, so it wasn't going to be easy. Before the race everyone did a few laps just for practice. My dad absolutely took over the uphill though. He's good. But enough about that bastard, this is how the race went. We both started at the same time from a 10 second countdown. He took the lead in the beginning which I thought was almost impossible for another AE86 (except my dad's) to overtake me from the launch. He was pretty good other than the fact that he turned slowly. And it was pretty hard to pass him because of the narrow road. About 70% done with the race, he did something wrong. I don't know if he just lost concentration or whatever, but on one of the easiest hairpins (3rd gear hairpin) he understeered a whole lot and almost hit the outside wall while I just "gripped" the inside corner. After that I just left him. So it was fun while it lasted... I knew as long as I kept up with him, I would've won because that's how the rules are, but I have this thing of passing people because it makes me feel so good when I do it. Well I'm going to stay up for a little while longer, then I must sleep.
-Tom
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Y'know..I would only be so lucky as to WATCH a race, let alone think it's nothing to race, as you do..Its crazy.. 
