Clueless Drafting!!! Dont try this....
What the heck was drafting??? Never knew it at all, clueless about wind resistance...Until I experienced it myself. Well anyway I got to know about drafting when i was playing my bro's Need For Speed 2- Underground League....Never exactly knew what the purpose of it....Until of course a firned of mine thought me about it. But nevertheless, i still had know clue how drafting can give u advantage in a race....
Got bored and was watching Transformers-Super Link anime...One of the episode is where all the robots will be having a race...and one of the part touched in that episode was about wind resistance and how it could be used effectively in a race....
Untill about a week ago, when i was heading back to my work place.
And the story goes like this.....
On my way back, there was this 2 cars- one a toyota dont know what model it is, but deffinitely a brand new...And another was a BMW a 7 series i presume... U know the lates one which is very huge...The toyota was in front of me meanwhile the beemer was behind me.... I was naturally trying to overtake the toyota, but the desire burned up even more when the beemer was closing in me and flashing the head lights...Damnit....Some one flashing at me askin me to move away??? At my turf??? And so the ego kicked in....I am only driving a 1.3 Wira...For those Wira users, will know 1.3 is deiffinitely not a performance car for Wira.
But somehow since my car is manual, i somehow managed to keep the disadvantage to minimum...or so i thought... But i was wrong... Here I am revving the car up so much and I the toyota just kept on pulling away with ease...Beemer on the other hand was on my tail smoothly as well... Maklumlar orang punya kereta ada ABS...My car pulak...I have to do some oversteer, some understeer here and there just to keep up with the status quo...
And then i made a mistake, I miscalculated an opportunity to overtake the toyota and end up slowing down behind another car which i cant recall what model...The result, the Beemer overtook me while toyota just pulled away.. Somehow I didnt give up...I revved up again, and i can feel that my car was struggling, and the vision was much clearer to me now, as i watch how easily both the toyota and beemer tackles the corner and was not affected by any understeer...That was the time I really wished i had my dream car on my hand...
Anyway , i still struggled and somehow managed to close in behind the beemer who is still behind the toyota....That was when i learnt about wind resistance and drafting... Well i cant still explain in my own terms what i learnt...but i will tell what i experienced...
I didnt feel it much on the straight road, but felt the vibe at the corners...When this beemer took a corner, by when i was very close behind it....when i took corner...i felt that the car dragging me along the beemer...The best part was that i never tackled that corner at that speed, and even better my car stood on the track...without needing me to understeer or anything.... So there you go, what i learnt from driving... And also after that I realised that my defensive as well as offensive driving skills has improved...
What happened after that??? Well naturally I won the battle.... Well it wasnt because of the drafting thecnique...I still need to experience with it provided there is always cars which will present me an opportunity to do so... Not a rich man to learn from experts by courses u see..
So how did I won??? Well told ya it is my turf....There was this one particular 'U' shaped corner...Both the toyota and beemer took the outside to tackle it, while i took the inside, reached behind another car, not wanting to loose my self initiated battle, took the inside while both the toyota and beemer took the outside on a straight road, splitting a 2 lane width road into 3, squeezing the innecent car that i overtook, reached to another corner and from outside i tackled the corner all the way to inside overtaking not one but both the over powered car... THere goes my tale of street racing...
Where Fantasy and Reality Cross Paths.....Boys and Girls...Don't try this anywhere......
Got bored and was watching Transformers-Super Link anime...One of the episode is where all the robots will be having a race...and one of the part touched in that episode was about wind resistance and how it could be used effectively in a race....
Untill about a week ago, when i was heading back to my work place.
And the story goes like this.....
On my way back, there was this 2 cars- one a toyota dont know what model it is, but deffinitely a brand new...And another was a BMW a 7 series i presume... U know the lates one which is very huge...The toyota was in front of me meanwhile the beemer was behind me.... I was naturally trying to overtake the toyota, but the desire burned up even more when the beemer was closing in me and flashing the head lights...Damnit....Some one flashing at me askin me to move away??? At my turf??? And so the ego kicked in....I am only driving a 1.3 Wira...For those Wira users, will know 1.3 is deiffinitely not a performance car for Wira.
But somehow since my car is manual, i somehow managed to keep the disadvantage to minimum...or so i thought... But i was wrong... Here I am revving the car up so much and I the toyota just kept on pulling away with ease...Beemer on the other hand was on my tail smoothly as well... Maklumlar orang punya kereta ada ABS...My car pulak...I have to do some oversteer, some understeer here and there just to keep up with the status quo...
And then i made a mistake, I miscalculated an opportunity to overtake the toyota and end up slowing down behind another car which i cant recall what model...The result, the Beemer overtook me while toyota just pulled away.. Somehow I didnt give up...I revved up again, and i can feel that my car was struggling, and the vision was much clearer to me now, as i watch how easily both the toyota and beemer tackles the corner and was not affected by any understeer...That was the time I really wished i had my dream car on my hand...
Anyway , i still struggled and somehow managed to close in behind the beemer who is still behind the toyota....That was when i learnt about wind resistance and drafting... Well i cant still explain in my own terms what i learnt...but i will tell what i experienced...
I didnt feel it much on the straight road, but felt the vibe at the corners...When this beemer took a corner, by when i was very close behind it....when i took corner...i felt that the car dragging me along the beemer...The best part was that i never tackled that corner at that speed, and even better my car stood on the track...without needing me to understeer or anything.... So there you go, what i learnt from driving... And also after that I realised that my defensive as well as offensive driving skills has improved...
What happened after that??? Well naturally I won the battle.... Well it wasnt because of the drafting thecnique...I still need to experience with it provided there is always cars which will present me an opportunity to do so... Not a rich man to learn from experts by courses u see..
So how did I won??? Well told ya it is my turf....There was this one particular 'U' shaped corner...Both the toyota and beemer took the outside to tackle it, while i took the inside, reached behind another car, not wanting to loose my self initiated battle, took the inside while both the toyota and beemer took the outside on a straight road, splitting a 2 lane width road into 3, squeezing the innecent car that i overtook, reached to another corner and from outside i tackled the corner all the way to inside overtaking not one but both the over powered car... THere goes my tale of street racing...
Where Fantasy and Reality Cross Paths.....Boys and Girls...Don't try this anywhere......
posted by devilwitattitude at 8:13 AM
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