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View Poll Results: How do you drive your vehicle on a day to day basis?
Super aggressive. Redline at every stoplight, tires squealing every corner. 0 0%
Aggressive. Kill every corner that's green. Drive past speed limit. 31 54.39%
Conservative. Mostly obey speed limit. Corner hard once in a while. 26 45.61%
Old-man conservative. Always obey speed limit. Let people enjoy the view of your car. 0 0%
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Old 03-29-2013, 10:26 AM   #1
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^ Everytime I think of guys street racing I think of these two

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The thing people don't understand about high performance driving is how much of it involves trusting/depending/knowing/anticipating the people who you are racing with. In a club you get to know the other drivers and their limits. On the street, you don't know if they just pop'd some ecstasy pills, smoked a giant bone and downed a 40 ounce of Colt 45... and that's probably when they do their best thinking/driving.
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Old 03-29-2013, 12:51 PM   #2
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These guys have a pretty active performance driving program. Check em out.
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Get a good instructor in your car and he will show you when to push it, and when to reel it in. Techniques that can make you a much more skilled driver and potentially save your life.

To answer your question directly... how do I drive? That depends:

Around town with drivers texting their girlfriends, on cel phones, kids and dogs nearby- like an old lady, 2/10ths
Highway onramps- 8/10ths
Mountain canyons with no other cars or traffic- 6/10ths-7/10ths
Practice sessions on a racetrack- 8/10ths
Timed runs for the money lap- All in baby! 10/10ths
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Old 03-29-2013, 02:07 PM   #3
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I don't fit in your categories Not aggressive but always +5 local and +9 highway. I love winding roads but don't go after them anywhere close to what I would on a track.
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