Younger Person Perspective- Super Stock Test Drive
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bro, I am not sure but I think this car is almost as fast as my
Flogging it like that on the street in track mode is a great way to learn how it goes from "playful" to emergency room, really quickly. I've got a professional racing license and you wouldn't see me driving mine like that with all the safeties off. I think a lot of folks are like this guy until the car does in fact pull one of its, "hey chump, time to die" moves. Once you get that pucker factor one good time, you quit driving like that.
I am with you. When he described how to stay in the gas when a Mustang is sideways to correct it, he indicates he don’t know squat, and my curiousness was over.
Have not driven anything in a while that I wanted to see how fast it would flip!
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While the video is truly terrifying, considering naivety is driving, I was once not too different, but thankfully I only had a GN that was “fast” for its time. I truly cannot imagine the kids these days with accessibility to all these insane, relatively cheap, muscle cars. If nothing else, this thread gave me a solid laugh at the witty replies from within our community!
Guess he doesnt realize how fast things can go wrong with the kind of rear wheel speed that thing can build when the grip goes. The nannies seem to do a great job at keeping things in check but all it takes is a split second and it's not even his car.
As I've said before, I'm competent in my ability as a driver and I'm confident in my car's ability to perform. I know how it reacts to things and what's safe and what's not. One thing I have no confidence in is the road surface on a public road and the other people in the area. I can be the world's best driver, driving the world's best car... but if the street has some sand on it, oil slick, or an uneven patch of pavement... me being the world's best driver in the world's best car isn't going to overcome an instant loss of traction event and come out the other side like nothing happened.
If I'm going to romp on it, it's going to be in a rural area or in an area where I have plenty of room and no obstructions on the roadside. It's most definitely not going to be on a narrow two lane road through an industrial area where there's clearly people all over the place. If the car does hit something on the road, as a driver, I'd have very little room to correct before impacting something.
If I'm going to romp on it, it's going to be in a rural area or in an area where I have plenty of room and no obstructions on the roadside. It's most definitely not going to be on a narrow two lane road through an industrial area where there's clearly people all over the place. If the car does hit something on the road, as a driver, I'd have very little room to correct before impacting something.
In his immortal words on the video..."As long as you know the basics of car control" and "It's a fun boat"...couldn't watch the rest of the video. He's probably a nice young man but I hope he matures a bit before finding out the answer to life's greatest mystery, i.e., what happens after death. I did some stupid shit too when I was his age but not with 807 HP.
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Ahh to be a kid…I remember what it was like before the rational processing center of my brain matured and played out all the possible bad scenarios for me ahead of time? yes boring, but as it happens necessary to ride another day
Lol…Yes Its always a good to power right into the power pole
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Wild animals like deer like to cross roads in rural areas. Be careful
I generally don't do it at all. There's always some degree of risk when a person decides to unleash the car past 100mph on a public road. The risk is much higher when you have roadside obstructions, narrow lanes, and turn offs where drivers could enter the road from a side access... not to mention things like kids, pedestrians, and pets in the area.
Out by my house, there's about 8-10 miles of pure open fields with a fairly wide road that runs straight through the middle of them. Originally, the area was a planned corporate housing development that was never finalized. So, it's a huge, open waste with a fantastic 4-lane road that leads through what would have been a huge development that would have houses 30,000 people or more. Instead, it's just a 4-lane road to nowhere that's about 10 miles long, linking two major highways. It's never used as nobody lives out there. High fences on both sides of the road, no houses, no people. When I do let it go, it's in a place like that, and I do so only in the daytime because we do have a lot of deer around here, but they only come out at night.
The country Sheriffs even turn a blind eye in this area to most things concerning vehicles. It's one of the most remote spots in the county (with a paved road) and it's often used by street racers. Some officers when pulling over kids doing stupid things on the highway will tell them to go to this area if they want to play around.
Overall, I'm probably one of the slowest Hellcat drivers anyone sees. That's because I don't show off in public. I'm at the race track so often that I don't feel the urge to just slam the car around every time I get in it. I like to have my fun with it, but when I do, no footage of what I've done will ever end up on the the internet because it will either take place on a track or in some remote secret hidey hole kind of place. Mainly because when I "unleash the car" I don't stop at 120mph.
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