gteehan

Rarely do I actually read about a story that is actual street racing.
http://www.thestar.com/article/668129

Bergamasco

Now that IS dumb!

Zookie

no comment

pongobaz

retards

The Stig

I guess the street racing laws are working as intended, then? You know, as a deterent? No?

CDN_Wolf_eh

The one guy managed to bring his car from 200kph to a stop at the Stoplight! Maybe the Officers radar gun needs to be recalibrated.

ekam

Those cars must have stealth paint.... it's screwing up the radar gun.

sebastian944

what is the braking distance of a 997? from 200kph to 0?

sebastian944

honestly, cars made to go fast can stop even faster -- if the two racing were in porsches it's a lot safer than two honda civics. Not justifying the action .. but the quote from the cop on thi story said braking from 200kph to 70kph takes about 7 seconds.

Zookie

+1 i have lost 3 friends in Early Model Honda's in the last 1 year

Jlangmd

At the last DE event, one of the instructors said that for all the go horsepower of these cars, they have about 800hp of braking power.

Which is why I get p/o when a soccer mom in a sports ute wants to tailgate me.

cleanme

The Instructor might've been taking a good guess because it's more like 2,000hp

The Pagani Zonda does 200km/h-0 in 4seconds.......time that. That would hurt!

Either way, retards.

swbatte

So you lend your younger brother your car to go for a cruise, and he comes home and tells you "Your car was impounded, can I borrow $3000 for the fines and another few hundred for the impound to have your car released in 7 days? And can you drive me there, because I lost my lisence? Oh wait, you don't have a car."

Christien

I've always been more impressed by the ability of a Porsche to brake, rather than accelerate. Sure, the acceleration's fun, especially with turbo boost, but the braking makes your brain feel like it's going through the windshield.

No way it takes 5 seconds to slow from 200 to 70. If it did, we'd all be braking at turn 7. More like1 second in a Porsche, maybe 2 or 3 in a standard road car.

But far be it for the police to let reality and truth get in the way of a good media story...

Sputter

roughly it takes me 5. secs to go from 0-60mph and 1.5 secs to go from 60 to 0mph. (that's not hitting a wall btw lol)