If you miss-shift or spin tires, etc, and lose, you still lost!
 

Something that I hear all too often from people is stupid things like...."I mis-shifted so you didn't beat me"...... "Damn right he did.....shifting is part of racing and what separates the big boys from the rest." If you miss a shift and lose...you lost....if you spin your tires like crazy off the line and lose.....you still lost...learn to launch your car or get better tires or don't run.....

If you choose to race.... then accept the results.....if you mis shift...you can say to him after.....damn I missed a gear...if we go again, you might not win next time... If you rematch him and he misses a gear does that mean that you didn't win? Of course not, controlling the car is all that racing is about.

If you expect your car to do all the work, you'll never be able to compete with the accomplished racers.....it's a mental game.....and we all know where the gears are in our cars, so if in the heat of the moment, you get too excited and miss a gear.....your fault, no one else's, and you deserve to lose this time.... not really much different from throwing a late game interception... you lost concentration and lost because of it...your fault.

In serious heads up racing with 2 evenly matched cars....the thing that decides the winner is not the car, it's the driver.......it's the reaction time, the 60 ft.....the shifts....the consistency.....

I know people who never miss a shift (I've missed a few, but never used it as an excuse), and who can drive their car the exact same number time and time again...consistently.....that's what makes a driver.....

Especially in drag racing...it's soo exacting.....it's all about banging the gear at the right time...the right amount of throttle on the launch, etc.

LOSING IS LOSING. If you miss a shift and never get a rematch again....don't blame him for running scared, blame yourself for missing the gear when the game was on the line...... No one cares if the loser of the Super Bowl, throws 25 touchdowns in the park the day after the big game...
...You gotta bring your A-game during the tournament, not during practice.

I agree 100% with that statement. Its not the car that wins the race, its how the driver drives the car that wins it.

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I should print that out and tape it to my window :laugh:

I agree bro ;) Many a times ive won races over people who cant drive to save thier lives.


Scoobs

best is when a in momo loses and EXPECTS a second race.
you can ask, but leave the expectations at home :p

haha happend to me last year when a s2k wanted to race my STOCK GTP well i have an intake and he missed 3rd hardcore and i took him by a few cars then he was all winny like i wanna race again i missed the shift hahaha
i guess he just felt bad loosing to a car thats 4 doors, auto and weighs around 3500 pounds :thumbsup

hinting at something
 

was this post hinting at something that might of happened last wed (apr 27) either way. true to the point.

not about anyone or thing.... just a buildup of hearing it over and over and over, you know.

pppfff that's why you make best of 3 races.

Best of three races is for chumps! :smilie_da

When you race on the street there's no such thig as...yeah best of three takes the cake :confused:

Yo setup a pass...meet....race....see who wins..pay up...or whatnot and leave....come back again when you have enough, or make another pass worth while :cool:

I agree. I've won a lot of races because of pure consistancy of driving. And I've also lost my share of races because I missed a gear or spun too hard ect... good thread.

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damn straight :appl:

So basically, you value more a "chance" of something will go wrong, rather than knowing 100% that you are better racer?

Drag racing is the only race where you "pray (sp) for the god thatnothing bad will happen to the car".

Yes, offcoarse in all other races there are brakedowns and crashes, but thay are vely small porstion (sp) of the whole race. Where as in drag, melted pistons and broken valves are very common, and are big factor in racing.

That's why I do not like drag, it is test of the car, not the driver.

I guess if the car is tuned to the ragged edge of blowing up you would have that problem... :eyes:

By the way, you totally missed the point of the thread.....Cheers.

ya mon! :thumbsup

Where in the hell did you come from. Drag racing is not a test of the car, its the test of the driver. If you don't know whats in your car, what limits it has, know what predetenation feels like, or sounds like, then you shouldn't be driving at all.

Just for your info, there are some cars that do go to their limits while drag racing, but they are usually in the 6 sec under times. Most cars that drag race, usually run on the same motor all season. Its at the end of the year when they start turning them up to get the max out of them. I also know in series like cascar, nhra and others like it, they usually bring along several engines and trannies for the events as they are more proun to blow ups then drag racing is.

Double Foken WERD!

In most cases...drag racing is all about the driver. I can agree that road racing, solo 1 and whatnot requires more hands on driving skill due to the fact that there's alot more going on, but by no means should you say that drag racing requires no to little effort in driving, cause I got news....IT DOES. Try taking a car that makes 600whp and 500ftlbs @8500rpm and youll quickly learn that you need to know how to drive.

Its easy to talk...even harder to walk.

It is always about the driver, hands down. I have seen chevettes beat cars that should have stomped all over them. I have seen total shitboxes with a good reaction time and good shifts beat others too cocky to take it seriously and their high price street machine gets beat. I have been on both sides of that and can tell you from experience, It is all about the driving. :appl: :thumbsup