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long trip races

f3racer

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so on my drive from ft stewart ga to ft leonard wood mo i got 3 good races in.
race 1 just south east of atlanta on i75. i was moving through traffic a little bit and saw a nice looking civic coupe 08ish model. looked like it was modded quite well as far as suspension and brakes. i kinda gassed it a little to get around a truck and was back down to 65 mph. next thing i know the civic is so close to my ass i can only see his windshield. so i move over and he goes flying by so i return the favor only not so close. he then uses what sounded like a 2 step launch control. he wasnt moving but he was smacking the rev limiter and blowing some nice fireballs. so i figure he's tuned. he goes, i go. no contest.


next was on i20 in alabama somewhere. i was running 65 there as well and a nice looking genesis 3.8 track come by me pretty quick. it looked bone stock. i matched his speed at about 80 then we both gassed it. he pulled about 3 lengths on me off the bat until about 120 then i started reeling him in. after i got about half the distance back he hit the brakes. we did that about 3 times.


race 3 was near memphis. a ram srt10 single cab, lowered, nice sounding exhaust. i was going by him at about 45 and he kinda goosed it to get my attention. 3 honks by him and we were off. he pulled out 1 length and i hung there all the way up to 110. i started to pull him back in and we had to slow down.

so i won 1 and lost 2.
 


^ yea im thinkin the genesis had some mods cuz they run similar times although the genesis might edge a gxp...might.But not 3 cars on top end.
 
they run similar times from a dig on the drag strip, not on an 80-120+ run. the gxp it hurt by its 4 speed auto on roll races guys. but if you read by the time we hit 120 i had pulled it back down to 1.5 cars and was still pulling him in. by 140 i would have passed him. but all 3 races he hit the brakes once i started catching him. if he was modded there was no exhaust mods. i barely heard the car. there was no honks. he hit the gas and i hit the gas. if we would have lined up, put it in 2nd with tapshift, and honked it would have been a different story.
 


Nothing like a little road trip fun. The Genesis is about a 13.8 in the 1/4 iirc, and I know my GXP before the turbo only got a 14.4 best ET...a solid half second difference there.
 
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