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Originally Posted by upallnight
If you don't drive a Lotus hard than why bother to buy a Lotus. I remember driving my Lotus on LSD (Lake Shore Drive) and this dude in a BMW came up to me and was edging me to race him. We were approaching the two 90 degrees turn on the drive so I decided to go for it. He kept up with me but when we reach that first 90 dgree turn I still haven't brake and it was all over for him. He put that BMW on the concrete divider. Drove away laughing to myself, you can't out brake a Lotus.
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Though I certainly don't condone street "racing," I had something similar happen to me in my 2001 GT Mustang. It had been lightly modified, nothing serious, bolt-on power adders, and a good set of lowering springs and Bilstein sports.
Was on my way home in the evening and another mustang pulled up next to me. I out accelerated him and was first to a left turn under an overpass. I had upgraded the brakes to Cobra calipers/rotors and I guess was able to out brake him and had no trouble making the turn. He spun and went into the concrete wall... I was young at the time and certainly wasn't going to stop. It didn't look serious, though don't think the car was driveable afterwards.
Not one of my prouder moments... but no one's perfect.
I had stopped and have stopped to help people out numerous times so I'm still in the black.