Another Race story! My FIRST, Lesson Learned.......... Options

[PlanetFuzz]

Well now! Considering I have had my car for almost a year,being my first car, and also being not even 18 yet,I haven't had that of an exciting history of cars yet. Tonight I did my first like spuntaneous street race. Like real one,I joked around reving and stuff with civics and stuff.

But tonight I went up next to a red civic hatchback and we gave each other the look and reved our engines. I was pumped! My first real street race! It had exhaust and what looked like spare tires on it. Nothing else. The light turns green and I had it revved to like 3 RPMs and I dropped the clutch. I did like a 3 second burn out and he smoked me. I caught up to him around 50,but I think he slowed down for sure. I have maxed my engine out before,but I never dropped the clutch while already having the engine revved up. If I would have just dropped the clutch and floored it,he would have died. I was friendly and gave him a thumbs up after it,he beat me,but I did learn something from my first experience.

You guys ever have this happen to you? and also....whenever I push my engine hard I get a smell....like a working hard smell.....hmm..

Just thought I'd share that story with you guys. Thanks!

[neoklis]

99% chance you clutch is dying.
Sorry man, but i have to tell you this; watch and learn before you race. It seems to me that you lack the knowledge and experience (1. wheel spinning 2. clutch burning 3. LOOSING BY A CIVIC and by MUCH as i understood)
You are atleast dangerous. You have to learn your car's limits in order for you and others to be safe and to not damage your car. Your are very young, so you have a lot of years ahead of you for racing.

Please dont take the above as insults but merely advice from elders and more importantly, from someone that was in your shoes a decade ago.

P.S. In order for you to race and win, you should also become more informed about other people's cars.

I raced yesterday my mechanics modified GT4. He just finished the works and his estimate is around 700 bhp. Of course i did not believe him but smoking me clean in the highway (effortless), i believe him. You see about $25,000 parts only will do that to a car (especially if it has the Toyota name behind it)