Cleaning out my drawers

[FBA]

Much worse than all of that when in a Viper...ask anyone who owns one. They will all tell you the same thing...makes the GT look like it has stability and traction control...

I don't think there are too many cars that are anywhere near as scary as a Viper on the throttle - as Tanner Foust said..."each time I get into this car it just feels like it wants to kill me"...or something close to that IIRC.

 

[BlackICE]

I love my traction control in the GT!

Ed

Me too!

 

[SSRob]

Wait for it, wait for it...

 

[ChipBeck]

I was standing next to an instructor from Miller Motorsports Park when it happened, he said "when you take your foot off the gas at that speed in that situation it's like hitting the brakes, the wheels stop and the car spins" That quote raced through my head as I started losing the back end.

Ah yeah, I can verify that. I survived probably the highest speed, greatest distance spin in the history of Ford GT's at the VIR GT Rally and a bunch of our members witnessed my luck that day. A slight dogleg right in the middle of the main straight and twin turbo #34 was at full boil and close to 150 MPH when I got to that bend and all I did was let off the gas and the ass end of my GT came around so fast it blew my mind. Matech GT-1 owner Martin Bartek told me he knew my car was going to be totaled the moment he saw me spin at that speed and he just hoped I'd get out OK. I did a complete 360 that consumed 200+ YARDS across the wet grass infield missing a low brick wall by about 20 feet and was about to hit a tire barrier with a corner worker in it at the end of the infield when the front end finally come around far enough so I could steer around it and get back on the track. Amazingly, although it was full of grass, water, and mud, my yellow GT didn't have a scratch on it after I cleaned it up. Dumb luck and lesson learned. Someone relayed to us once the words of a track driving instructor who told a new driver, "Nothing you do here today will improve the looks of your car". Cheers.

Chip

 

[Kayvan]

I take on ramps very slow in Cali...

Curves, banking, merging lanes, traffic, too much going on

Was 50 at 6am, skipped C&C