This is why I speed!

[cremmenga]

I was telling you guys about where I live and how open it is!! this is a pic a few miles from my house. Nothing but straight away and smooth as silk roads!! enjoy

[28oz]

id speed if i were you too!!!!

[moyest]

I can only see one slight "wiggle" in the road. That's some pretty impressive road construction!!

Over here in "Middle Earth" (New Zealand) we have PLENTY of corners, and not many areas flat enough to make a nice straight road like that.

Although we've still had the odd nutcase trying to break the speed records in their particular class.

A local NZ'er (Owen Evans) broke the NZ land speed record in a Porsche 911 Le Mans GT. He did it, reaching 348.237 kph.

He then tried to go for 350kph (just to round things off), but he crashed on his second run when one of his tyres blew!

Luckily he survived, but anyone who saw the TV footage of the crash would agree it's a bloody miracle!!!

I should add he did all of this on a two-lane road (i.e. one lane each way) in the New Zealand countryside - not the smoothest of roads!

[cremmenga]

The road in my pic goes on like this for about 7 or 8 miles and about 15 miles behind me with only 2 or 3 curves! there is litterally dozens of roads like this close to my town!! I LOVE IT!

[Gav240z]

One problem with that pic your not driving a Z

[cremmenga]

One problem with that pic your not driving a Z

sorry Gav, if it makes you feel better I was driving to the body shop to drop off all new fenders, rocker panels, floors, supports, front frame rails, etc. she is getting completely restored. I can't wait till she can be on that road!

[beandip]

I am glad you live there and no where near me and my family. Stright or not others use the road . Think about the others that will pay if you don't grow up and come to your sences. If you want to go fast do it , put your speed where your mouth is, just do it and get it over. It dosnt't impress those with there sences about them . It dosent take any brains to put your foot to the floor and keep it there . If you want to go fast put the car on the track . Maybe I am sensitive because my 19 year old grand son shot and killed him self two weeks ago . And the grief and pain that he left the rest of the family in is horrable. This is a wound that will heal over time but the scar will be for ever. You take out a family or a mother driving down your stright road , think about this . Gary

[Virto]

I am glad you live there and no where near me and my family. Stright or not others use the road . Think about the others that will pay if you don't grow up and come to your sences. If you want to go fast do it , put your speed where your mouth is, just do it and get it over. It dosnt't impress those with there sences about them . It dosent take any brains to put your foot to the floor and keep it there . If you want to go fast put the car on the track . Maybe I am sensitive because my 19 year old grand son shot and killed him self two weeks ago . And the grief and pain that he left the rest of the family in is horrable. This is a wound that will heal over time but the scar will be for ever. You take out a family or a mother driving down your stright road , think about this . Gary

Gary, I am sorry for your loss.

Gary makes an excellent point. Too often people fail to realize that the public road system is designed for and used by exactly that...the public. Here in the Chicago area, fatal crashes are quite common, and more often than not are the cause of a careless or speeding driver.

You may think you're a good driver (this is for everyone alive, not trying to single anyone out) but you never know when you're going to face a blowout...or have a steering failure...or have someone's pet or loved one dart out in front of you.

Everyone, PLEASE everyone, lets keep the high speeds confined to the circuits and tracks where they belong.

[1 Bravo 6]

Gary, I've P.M'd you.

Chris,

You want straight stretches of road mate, you come down here.

I know of a bloke who drove to a particular stretch of road on a regular basis so he could put his car through it's paces. It was a deserted stretch of road that had been bypassed when a new stretch of road was built. He did it for a couple of years.

He last visited that spot about eighteen months ago. He reckons he was doing about 170kph when the kangaroo jumped out in front of him. He shouldn't have hit the brakes but, ..... reflex action, ... he did and lost it.

Wrote the car off, now has a steel plate in his head and doesn't have a left foot anymore. The only good thing was that he missed the 'roo.

A couple of nights ago, a 17 year old bloke lost control of his car and collected a few meters of safety railing through the windscreen and out the back window, smearing himself all over the inside of the car.

So much for "Nice, Safe, Straight Stretches Of Road".

Save your leadfooted driving for where it belongs. On the track.

Graveyards are chock a block full of young drivers who thought;

"It'll never happen to me".

Rick.

:devious: :devious:

[Dans240z]

I don't really care about long straight roads, I don't drive a muscle car. I mean going fast in a straight line is okay, but there's so much more. The z can handle curves, and that's what it's all about. It generally takes a better driver too.

[Ed]

This is why I don't:

[Chino 240Z]

350Z in a straight line crash...

http://www.fungod.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=32