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]

Sorry if i seemed a bit offensive earlier. That was not my intention. I just wanted to advice the younger ones of the Celica owners that racing is a serious thing. You just have to be extremely carefull at it when in such young age because you just don't have the experience needed at 18 or even in mid twenties. As i have learned by the hard way, nothing beats experience and caution. I will now mention something that i am not proud of and i never mention. At 19 I had a Montero Canvas top and i was always writing cheques my asss could not cash. Well i was made a fool by a 1975ish Mitsubishi Colt. I thought he only had a 1.3 engine but he had a 1.6 heavily modified engine with NOS etc. And the guy who had that car was a close friend of mine. Well to make a long story short, this guy altough he was a 19 year old mechanic, he had one of the fastest car in the whole country and he could drive like a bat out of hell. He used to street race every weekend to support his family as his father was ill or something, but he was getting hundreds/ up to thousands of dollars from betting.

Well, he beat me clean, and he never let me forget it. Up to this date, whenever i see him i remember the embarrassment.

So the lesson from this is: There will always be people smarter/faster/prettier/ more knowledgeable/ etc than you. What you can do is only learn from your mistakes and always strive to become better.