The Real Top Speed

[ctrlaltdelboy]

Prison is for sure, examples include:

156MPH = 5 months in jail (you can add your comments to this one here)
160MPH = 12 months in jail
148MPH & 157MPH = 28 days each in jail
41MPH = 4 years in jail (dangerous driving rather than speeding)

Pande - you'd better start getting used to the idea of doing some hard time or give this activity up.

if you continue doing this sort of thing there can only be one of a few outcomes, you will either:

a) get caught and go to jail, probably resulting in the loss of your job/livelihood, leading to the loss of your income and then your home and car, leading to stresses in your relationship caused by the financial pressures and your incarceration, leading to break-up/divorce - once you've got all of that out of the way you can start your life over again, ableit with a prison record on your CV.

b) kill someone - there are all manner of things that can happen at this speed on public roads to cause an accident. you will then be able to look forward to all of the things above plus some guilt to boot.

c) kill yourself - your obituaries will be in lots of papers and websites and will not be particularly complimentary about you and the way you lost your life - probably not the kind of legacy you would want your loved ones to have as their memories of you.

why not save it for the track, the airfield or the pod?

we are off to Bedford on the 20th (see here for details) for some safe flexing of our cars' capabilities - last time out I was seeing 130MPH before braking for the chicane at the end of the straight and up to 90MPH through the 90degree right hander at the pit straight (at 90+ I lost it in a 720 deg spin down the pit straight). In this environment everyone knows and follows the rules resulting in a situation where you can push the limits of your car and your driving ability in relative safety from injury, death, fines, points, bans or prison.

Hope to see you there

[DamianW]

I was going to say something similar but wondered how sanctimonious I'd sound I agree entirely. I doubt any of us are total angels on the public road, but there are limits and frankly Pande is so far beyond those he may as well be waving at me from the moon.

I don't think its big or clever, and frankly I also think its making NSX owners look like a bunch of tools.

[ctrlaltdelboy]

Further to Damian's comments, I also paused before posting for fear of sounding sactimonious - I don't want to come across that way either, but I guess to some folks I will.
I also agree that I'm sure none of us in here are angels with regard to speed limits, and that we kind of 'set our own limits' and as a result I'm sure I'm not the only one to have fallen foul of the law and paid the price for it - but my point is that the limit that Pande is working within (is there one?) is so far beyond the limit that I or others here set ourselves that when the time comes for him to pay the price for driving at his own limit rather than the legal one, that price will be unbearably high for him - as detailed in my last post.

I don't want to sound like a preacher, I just want to make Pande realise what he is lining up for his future, as I suspect that he has not thought about or taken on board the reality of the situation previously.

I'll leave it there folks, except to point out to Admin that on some forums street racing posts are specifically banned e.g. here some people think this is a good thing, others think it is in conflict with the 'free speech' ideals that the internet and forums can deliver. Perhaps Admin may wish to instigate a vote among the membership as to whether more rules such as this one are needed in here, or simply make an arbitary decision on it.

[Pande]

Who said the race was a street race.

Ive never mensioned street racing, the roads I use are closed runways which allow this kind of activity.

Chill out guys

[BrownBear]

Chilled anyway, but thanks for the clarification.

Good luck with the 34 - keep us posted - cheers

[DamianW]

Who said the race was a street race.

Ive never mensioned street racing, the roads I use are closed runways which allow this kind of activity.

Chill out guys

This is what confused me then:
"This was on a 6 mile straight we found but not the road we originally raced on."

Sounds cool to me anyway, then, sorry to have a go. Worth making it clearer in future.

[ctrlaltdelboy]

Who said the race was a street race.

Ive never mensioned street racing, the roads I use are closed runways which allow this kind of activity.

I have not seen any mention of runways in this thread until now, all any of us here have seen is talk of these speeds on ROADS (that's the same as streets, right?) e.g.

....hit 177mph and the road ran out, not the revs. I believe 180 is possible.

Lets just say I can confirm that 180mph and still pulling was the story last weekend. Hard to believe but believe it...........ran out of road.

... you naughty boy ... and i thought 162 still pulling in a 5speed 1996 3.0litre was bad ... trouble was ... yep, you guessed, i ran out of road too ...

Last week the M3 Evolution pulled 178mph varified GPS reading in 5th gear, yes you read correct, in 5th gear. This was on a 6 mile straight we found but not the road we originally raced on

On the other hand my car hit 180 on the GPS and as I mensioned before the road ran out.

Ill let you guys know how the 6 mile straight goes.

By the way this weekend im hoping to get together with an R34 Vspec. The road will only be 2.5 mile long. What do recon the outcome will be...

I would have thought that if all of the activities above had been carried out on RUNWAYS rather than ROADS then that would have been mentioned at the time - If these 2.5 mile and 6 mile straight are indeed closed runways that can be used for this kind of wheel to wheel drag racing, then I for one am quite keen on finding out more - location? owner/event organiser? contact details? perhaps the NSXCB can have a day at one of these and the rest of us can put our cars through their paces too.
I expect that most of us would start out cautiously spectating before having the bottle to join in the fun, but don't keep it to yourself Pande, tell us more.

[Welshman]

You would have to go some to find a 6 mile runway in the UK. I doubt if any exist. 6,000 yards is a very long runway. Maybe ask the USAF whether we can use Edwards AFB!

[ctrlaltdelboy]

You would have to go some to find a 6 mile runway in the UK. I doubt if any exist. 6,000 yards is a very long runway.

I agree mate, but I think you'll find that 6 miles is in fact 10,557 yards :wink:

anyway, Pande appears to have found one that allows it's use for drag racing though so I reckon this is good news for all of us who fancy taking it to the limit

looking forward to more details.......

[Kevin]

RAF Fairford, the longest in Europe is 10,000 feet long.

At Bruntingthorpe 2 miles long, we managed 150mph, as measured on speedo.

It will be nice to know where this 31,000+ foot long runway is, that can be used for racing on. What's the secret? Why can't we know where it is?

It would be great for a NSXCB visit.