Crazy Porsche Driver
 

Hahahahahaha!

NEMESES! :troll:

LMAO! I'm going to start yelling NEMESIS when I want people to get out of my way.

That sh%^t was funny! Dude cant race though...high, low, high through the corners!!

You likey like that OH YES!! NEMESES. lmao.

That was great! LMAO!!!

Nice one! :D

I also liked the video below it----OUCH!!

That video came to mind when I took this picture. This is the one and only time in its life my car will ever have Satan mileage. Shortly after I took the pic I got passed by a Lamborghini. Maybe he was screaming "nemesis" at me.

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Uh, LoveBunny, I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but...I'm really not so sure someone who does 360s through an intersection in a car she's only had a couple months should be snappin' pics while driving!

(In your defense, it IS a nice, straight roadway and you DO appear to be staying in your lane. And it actually is kind of a neat photo.)

Be careful out there!

Yeah, it was a straight boring drive and the pics were snapped with my phone without having to even look at it when I took them. But thanks for your concern. :)

LMAO good video!

What the... that guy was psycho!!! Very funny! :D Seems like a scene from the Exorcist :barf:

Here's a clip someone sent me about a little bigger problem in a spin. What did this guy do wrong? And what should he have done to avoid this mishap?

From my take - too much entry speed and the wrong entry point, lift off before entering the corner (according to the engine sound), no downshift ( to stay in the powerband), he tried to correct with steering input but it was too late as you can hear the car skidding around. I think hitting the corner hump also created unweighting and unsettling of the car and with the lift off, caused the car to be really light and susceptible to a flip. Once he was perpendicular to the roadway his tires caught and the momentum flipped him. The 911 once going is I understand very tough to bring back due to the engine location/rear weight bias especially if PSM is off or you don't have it.

Does this sound right?

And as an aside, how do you get those photos to show instead of only attach?

Cheers :)

Oh Oh, forgot the clip - Sorry! :D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8gDXDle3Pyg

What kind of Porsche was that? He had a yellow strip on the top of the steering wheel like a Gt3, but the Mustang was pulling hard on him in the straight!??

too funny. :cheers: :dance:

He didnt countersteer hardly at all...too much entry speed probably got him into the oversteer but it seemed like that would have been saveable.


That other video is the funniest in-car video i've ever seen!

Ouch! I don't know anything about track driving so I have no clue what he did wrong. As far as the rear engine of the 911, my dad kept warning me about how I would have trouble driving one because the read end just comes flying around. I test drove one and asked the salesman about it. He told me that with the PSM it's much harder to do that, and he demonstrated how well it works driving much faster around some curves than I ever do.

I'd love to actually learn to drive my car the way it was meant to be driven one day, but I'm too scared of ending up like that dude in the video!

For the picture attachment, I uploaded mine to flicker.com and then when you make a post, click the little picture link thingy and paste the url in there of the pic.

The great american race driver Phil Hill simply hates the 911. He figures the engine is in the wrong place and he should know.

Thanks LoveBunny. I've never tried flicker.com yet but know of a lot of others that have - yeah that's a great way to post a lot of pictures - and now it makes sense why that little URL dialog box pops up when you want to insert an image. :)

Cheers :)

You know I was thinking LoveBunny, the thing about the PSM - I have stability control on our Benz (rwd) - a little switch on the dash, like the Boxster. I mentioned to my wife and kids that I was driving up a mountain road to go skiing recently and was going up no problem on a skiff of snow on new all-seasons when I had the bright thought of turning off the switch to see what would happened - how much traction would be lost...

Well what a stupid mistake. Once I touched the switch I did a 360. I was so freaked out and I was lucky too. Nothing happened thank goodness as I tried it when there was no one around me, but it sure hit my ego hard. I thought I was a decent driver and that incident made me realize that without all the electronic doodads nowadays - you are a bad driver. It's just that all that stuff hides your driving flaws and you can drive without ever knowing this. I like to do little experiments to find the car's limits and my limits to avoid mishaps on our roadways. If others did this, our roads would definately be safer.

A good way to learn how to feel a car is by turning off all stability control and driving in snow on a empty parking lot. I know nowadays this may be impossible as new cars sometimes don't trust you and don't allow you to turn everything off. I learned in my first droptop as a teenager in my Triumph way back. That brings back memories actually, my wife was my girlfriend back then... oh the memories...

Well I'm back again... anyways try things on the road when it's safe, to push yourself and your car just a little. You'll appreciate your car more and have lots more fun at the same time. I did this to show my honey what the 987S can do last night, and reminisced about back in the low powered Triumph days and she remembered too. She says however that her eyes are closed shut when I push things. This I do not recommend. :)

Finally, I saw a youtube clip about the 911 on topgear with that Jeremy guy and it was amazing what they were doing with the 997, and it didn't upset and spin as the PSM was on. That PSM is simply amazing - it allows the common man/woman (ie. non racecar driver) to drive that thing at very high speeds cornering full on. :D

The Boxster is a fun car and if you drive it in a safe manner, you can have as much fun as on a roller coaster - and come home in one piece to boot.

Anyways, cheers. :)

egs, my dad told me about a guy who worked at one of the local Mercedes dealerships and decided to take out a customer's car for a spin and turn off the traction control. He basically wiped out a very expensive car that wasn't his. Needless to say, he lost his job.

I haven't turned mine off yet but my dad has ridden in the car and gone, "What's this little button," with his finger poised to press it. I just hope if I ever lend him my car he'll remember not to turn it off. I recall hearing a story a while back from a Porsche salesman who lost control of a Boxster when he tried to drive it like a BMW.

LoveBunny, it's ok to press the PSM switch, nothing will happen - unless you have it floored and are taking a 90 deg corner.

It will interject when the program determines that certain things are happening to the car ...... that shouldn't. You can go to the Porsche site or other sites and google PSM.

Try it out in a slippery location (ie. empty wet parking lot) and floor the car and turn hard at the same time. See what happens. You'll like PSM if you want to maintain control, but will want it off if you want to power drift.

On the Benz a dash icon lights up when that stability control is working. It's kind of neat to see the little light flash on and off when you lose, then gain grip again. I haven't tried this in the 987S, so I'm not sure if a little light flashes on and off too.

And hey, let your dad drive your car. He should have fun too. I've let only very close family and friends drive mine, and boy do they love it .... especially when I tell them to floor it. They thank me over and over to have a chance to drive a quick car fast and really appreciate the opportunity. And yes my wife drives the car - she knew how to drive stick before we hooked up many moons ago.

Do it, your dad would love you more for it. I know I would if my daughter let me. And yes guys, my wife and kids knows about LoveBunny.

Cheers, peace, out :)

I guess the PSM works sort of like the traction control I had in my Lexus. When you started to skid or lose traction the light would light up on the dashboard. Needless to say, the Porsche holds on a LOT better than the Lexus SUV did. Now when I go back to driving it (my dad has it now) I have to remind myself to slow down around corners a lot.

I'd gladly let my dad drive my Boxster. I've offered for him to use it and he hasn't yet. Says he wants to though. I'd let any of my family members drive it or anyone else that I know is responsible enough not to damage it. A guy my dad knows has a Ferrari and says he'll trade a ride in the Boxster for the Ferrari. I wonder if he means a DRIVE? Probably not.

I'd take him up on it. Let him drive yours, then swap when you get back. As long as you have the same tranny as he does, and you know to drive it, he should be ok with that - I would be, especially being your dad's friend. I know that I did cringe a little bit when guys didn't shift the way they should. Keep the revs up reasonably, shift smooth, and don't burn out the clutch by riding it.

Not many people have a chance to drive a Fcar. Seems like a good opportunity to me! Go for it! :)

And yeah it's kind of like traction control, with a few more parameters thrown in the software mapping to control more than just the driving wheels. ;)

Hahaha
 

Wow that was great! He used the darkside to force the mustang to oversteer!

Well, one of the things I want to do before I die is drive a Ferrari, but I'm not sure he's actually willing to let me drive it. Honestly, I'd be a little scared to. I have no doubt he'd take care of any damage he did to my Boxster if it happened. I don't think I could afford to fix much on a Ferrari. But I'll be excited to even go for a ride in it. This is his third Ferrari and he took me for a ride in the other two and it was a lot of fun.

Sounds like a nice guy. Show him that post and I bet he'll let you drive it. It's only a car - and if he thinks you're at all a good daughter, he'll do it. Tell him eqs said it's ok. ok ....ok.

Oh and here's that youtube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWk-nat1ok

It was wet out there, and that guy was going fast. Show that to your dad - the new 997s are amazing compared to before.

Ciao, peace, out. :dance:

I think the guy in the video was acting like such a dufus because he knew he was being videoed and that it would end up on Youtube. But it was still funny. Thanks for sharing.

gm, that's a show that's been airing in the UK for a while now and the guy says things tongue in cheek b/c it's good for the ratings and keeps people watching it.

Don't know that much about Topgear as I don't live over there, but if you look past the silly comedic comments, it does tell you a thing or two about the car(s) in question.

Anyways thx, cheers :)