How to get your fix without losing your license

[juhap]

I don't condone street racing nor speeding, but there are some places in my hometown where I can get my kicks without breaking any laws or causing any danger to others.

See the photo below where 3 cars are about to turn left. It looks like your average boring road. What makes a huge difference however is that the speed limit is 40 kmh before the corner and 100 kmh after it (that's 25 and 62 mph). If you're lucky, the left lane is empty and the light is green, and you enter the tight, uphill corner in 2nd gear quickly building up speed as you drive through it. If you get it right, you've hit the RPM sweet spot as you exit the corner, so flooring it will feel like you're sitting in a slingshot, and you'll find yourself in the right-hand corner quicker than you thought. It may not look tight, but at 100 kmh you're pushing the limit a bit (I would not try to drive through it at 100 kmh in a regular car). And when you've cleared it, the tiny spot in your rear-view mirror is the car you last saw right beside you when you entered the first corner together.

Bing it!

[Mr. ///M3 RD]

My recommendation ... if you want to get your fix as you call it ... take your babe to the track.

Anything else and one day some place that point or car in your rear view mirror might just be a police man on his way home from a long day at work. Guess what will happen next ... think about it Just saying ...

[juhap]

The whole point of my post was that it's possible to have fun on regular roads without breaking any laws. After 20+ years of driving I've yet to receive even a parking ticket.

[nicknaz]

I agree with both of you!

Definitely have to take it to the track to really push, and definitely have to corner hard wherever legally possible, such as corners similar to the one you described.

You really should take down that link to the location though...

[Vintage]

awesome aerial and some really fun cornering

[Torn]

Best fun is had at the track although i cant say i wouldnt play a bit on that road u posted!!

[baldguyj]

Best to play on tracks such as Barber, Road Atlanta, Sebring... example

[Dr Stig 2]

I feel your joy Juhap!

I have a similar corner, coming our of a tight pair of left handers and onto a freeway where the limit is 100kph.

You enter slow, and are doing only 30kph around the tight left hander into the merge lane and cars are screaming down at you at 100 or more...
You floor it...
You get immense satisfaction as you hit the speed limit in about 3 seconds and merge with the flow, and you can just imagine the drivers bearing down on you who would never have believed you could have accelerate that fast and were probably thinking they needed to slam on the brakes when I pulled out.
(Mainly cause many do after only speeding up to 70 or 80kph)

Biggest problem is that this is also the way home from our chinese take away, so I have to remember not to floor it too early out of the left hander when I have a bag full of food on the passenger floor.

(And for those spacially challenged - as we drive on the LHS of the road, the corner is entered from the lower road, moving east, then north, then the left hander onto the freeway heading north west.)

[persian54]

track track track
http://e89.zpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=724925

[integraworks]

Last time I checked, there are no laws about how fast you can accelerate up to the posted speed limit. :-) Be Safe, Have Fun, Know Your Limits. The track is great, but it's only once in a while, costs a fortune, and generally has its own sets of rules and restrictions in any case. The right car & driver, on the right roads, in the right conditions... all is good. Enjoy.

[Lackey]

Love those on ramps

[juhap]

Originally Posted by Dr Stig 2

Biggest problem is that this is also the way home from our chinese take away, so I have to remember not to floor it too early out of the left hander when I have a bag full of food on the passenger floor.

[Dr Stig 2]

Originally Posted by juhap

Well you might laugh, but we had sweet corn soup tonight and I don't want any of that on my carpet.