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August 19th, 2006, 01:28 PM
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 Joined: Apr 15th, 2005 Last Online: November 19th, 2008 Location: Daytona Beach, FL Age: 24 Posts: 1,943
Car: 1990 Volvo 740 GL LFS Status:  Rep Power: 18    |  My motorsports debute Last night, I finally got the chance to play Mr. race car driver. For $15 I went down to the Orlando Speed World (located outside of Christmas, FL) and had at with the 1/4 mile. It was the first time I got to really see what my car could do, and was darn good fun...even if it was just in a straight line. A bunch of friends and I got together (because a few of us didn't know where we were going), took about 30mins or so of driving from Daytona (and we hit 100 at one point, first time I ever did that on a highway as well). But, to the juicy stuff, the times. I ran 3 times (the strip was stopped several times because of the computers and one Camaro crashing), the first two against one of my friends and his Sentra, the last time I had my friend riding shotgun and we raced an '89 BMW 745i. My only regrets are that I had a 20" monitor in the trunk (I'm in the middle of moving) and I don't have the 740 Turbo (could've had that BMW...and that Sentra). So, here they are: 1st run: 18.609 @ 70.89 Sentra...17.496 @ 76.66 2nd run: 18.333 @ 73.66 Sentra...17.300 @ 81.35 3rd run: 18.908 @ 72.36 745i...17.758 @ 80.36 All three cars are stock. A really good night, funny to see some ricers try to take cars that can actually go. I'll get some videos and pictures up as soon as I can.
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August 19th, 2006, 04:42 PM
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| Your Guide to TG/FG  Joined: Dec 9th, 2003 Last Online: November 11th, 2008 Location: Decorah, IA Age: 36 Posts: 4,297
Car: 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STI (USDM) LFS Status:  Rep Power: 35  | Re: My motorsports debute Quote:
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August 19th, 2006, 04:53 PM
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 Joined: Dec 3rd, 2005 Last Online: November 17th, 2008 Location: Jerusalem ,Israel Age: 26 Posts: 773
Car: Peugeot 206 XS 1.6L Rep Power: 21 | God what I wouldn;t give for us to have a place like that....Unfortunetly motorsports are illegal here (yeah I know :/) and any kind of activity like that is therefore forbidden 
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August 19th, 2006, 07:06 PM
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 Joined: May 19th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Canoas, Brazil Age: 29 Posts: 3,461
Car: Fiat Palio 1.6 16v Rep Power: 37  | Nice to see people having fun with simple things.
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September 5th, 2006, 11:55 PM
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 Joined: Jul 11th, 2006 Last Online: October 12th, 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 615
Car: 1996 Mazda Miata 1.8L, 1992 Spec Miata 1.6L Rep Power: 0  | Quote:
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