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Old Jul 2, 2006 | 10:05 PM
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06 C230 VS. Mini S

Had a little fun with my friend today for 1/8th mile. My friend is a decent driver by the way. We started from a complete stop and I had my ESP turned off so I can get the full power out of my stock 2.5L. As the light turned green, I had about half a car on him due to quicker reaction, I used to get .500 RT's back in the days on the tracks. We were neck to neck til when he shifted into third and he had half a car on me. We had to call it off since our turn was coming up. Afterward my friend was quite surprised with my car which has 300+lbs more than his. My C230 doesn't seem all that slow to me after that.
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Old Jul 3, 2006 | 01:54 AM
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Had a little fun with my friend today for 1/8th mile. My friend is a decent driver by the way. We started from a complete stop and I had my ESP turned off so I can get the full power out of my stock 2.5L. As the light turned green, I had about half a car on him due to quicker reaction, I used to get .500 RT's back in the days on the tracks. We were neck to neck til when he shifted into third and he had half a car on me. We had to call it off since our turn was coming up. Afterward my friend was quite surprised with my car which has 300+lbs more than his. My C230 doesn't seem all that slow to me after that.
I think you have a better than 0.5 reaction time. Since your friend is a "decent" driver and you had a head start due to quicker reaction.

Time to go back to the track and measure your reaction time.

Oh, yes, your callsign suits you right, you do have 2 many cars. Even if you have a seperate home in both NY and NJ.
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If I wasn't married, I will be at the local tracks no less then 3 times a week. heeheehee.
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you should have a better start anyway because your car is rear wheel drive. the mini is front wheel drive and is hard to get traction off the line with front wheel drive.
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are both cars stock?
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