LOL!

No buick here mate, not while Mercedes is making 500hp cars!

And I've also learned from various persons neutral drops aren't a good idea.

 

Didn't you hear? Blue lights counteract the effects of neutral drops! Yeah, it works sorta like that fat lady getting chips and ding dongs at the gas station drinking Diet Coke as the "antidote"....

I just read the review in R&T of the CL65...612HP...738ft-lbs of torque. That's like suck your teetch out accelleration!

 

Blue lights?

Just need some 400 width tires though to get decent traction outta that beast!

 

Live and learn????

More like kill and learn, or not, blame them for it. You gotta stop. Reckless by law is one thing, reckless by common sense is another. You are outright dangerous.

 

If you have some idea of how to drive a car at speed, getting airborne is one of the biggest dangers of hi-speed driving . . . Doesn't matter what you're driving, flying tires don't have much traction.

Ask Princess Di about that one.

 

It wasn't intentional, man. I didn't see the bump/slope or whatever it was that caused me to go airborne.

 

Yes, it was intentional. You intentionally went through a red light at 100 mph on a road you weren't familiar with.

 

Yup... you need to correct and then compensate. Glad you're ok.

 

Speaking of correcting ...I figure I might as well learn something from this just incase it happens again. Ok so keep the steering wheel straight to avoid spinning out of control. What about the steering, it was pulling me to the right, I pulled heavy left, what should have I done with the steering wheel / pedals?

 

If your car is pulling slighty left...give it just amount of right to make it straight...if you pull right too much you spin.

If your already in a spin, steer toward the spin.

This is drivers Ed 101...

Erik

 

I can't wait till he tries to jump a row of buses!

 

If you're oversteering and your tail is kicking out to the left, then look/steer left with MILD throttle. As you begin to correct, you'll have to counter-steer a touch to prevent over-compensating/spinning the other way.

Just try not to run lights. I personally hate people who do that. Can you imaging if a minivan crossed your path on the green as you were airborn? Can you imagine yourself or someone you know in that minvan? You know what I'm saying.

 

I doubt "thinking" was his top priority during this incident.

Drivers like this scare the crap out of me.

 

By the time it gets this far, it's too late to start thinking.

The time to think is when the light turns orange, and you go for the brakes. Anything after this is only reaction, luck, and God's will.

Take the advice of others in this post, start autocrossing, take a high-speed drivers school, and learn how to control a car. Learn where the limits are, and learn how quickly you can go from 'I got it covered" to "oh no!".

Glad you, and everyone else came out OK. Now take this as a lesson learned, and move forward.

 

I thought it was yellow?

 

OK, a mere technicality.

Yellow is just after green - orange is closer to the red. . .

 

Sorry, my comments weren't really for you . . . they were just a general comment for other board members . . . .

You'll notice that my comment began "If you have some idea of how to drive a car at speed, . . . "

Blasting through intersections at 100 mph pretty much excludes you from that group.

Hey, I've heard the Dodge Neon SRT is a pretty keen car . . .

 

haha.. i don't think this thread went the way he expected.

 

Actually I appreciate every comment here. I can't say I disagree with anyone. I love my girlfriend and it could have been a disaster if God forbid anything went wrong. It didn't, so now I will never attempt this again.

 

I am glad u have no hard feeling about my first comment i left! i would say your cool, but it sounds like your an idiot for the things u try!:p hahaha i am j/k man, dont take me to serious.

 

Amazing that people actually want to post the boners they make...DOH!
but, yeh, 100mph into a yellow/red light is major recipe for disaster. One that could not only result in death or injury, but if you lived you'd spend the rest of your life chillin' with Bubba in cold cell.
And Bubba thinks you look good in them jeans boy. Ummm.
There's worse things than dyiing.

I pretty ricey er, dicey maneuver.
Can't beleive people are out catching air in their Mercedes's.
PLEASE slow down.
Like someone said, get yer ya ya's out at Auto Cross or a driving school.