archernu

Yeah. She's a monster. I know that without much effort I could get her up to 450 HP, but I'm going to leave her stock for the time being. My reflexes and driving ability should make me the equal of most people.

I took her out to carve corners this morning. Running through 40 MPH caution corners, she acted like she was on a straight road.

The leather, sunroof, and big stereo are also nice.

It's really nothing teachable or learnable. It's more just practice and learning your car rather than learning set rules. You know, things like knowing my EVO isn't as fast as it could be right now because the ambient air temp is over 90 degrees and the turbo isn't helping as much as it would with cool air. Knowing that my turbo hits at between 3500 and 3800 RPM. Knowing that you shouldn't just use engine compression to slow coming into corners because you'll likely bog on the way out of the corner. Remembering to find the proper line into a curve to make it closer to a straight line. Learning where your car wants to shift so that you can throw between gears almost without using the clutch. Little things. Most people just dump the accelerator and shift when it screams or when they've read that they should shift. You have to listen to the car and have to understand it.

Then it's all reflexes and timing.

EDIT: I will also probably be taking race lessons (since I haven't had an interesting car for years) at Pacific Raceways next year. This is in anticipation of driving a rented super-car on the Nurburgring for my thirtieth birthday.

[Edited on Jul 31, 2005 1:57PM]