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View Poll Results: What do you do?
No one is around - LETS RACE!
22.22%
Not worth losing my license or hurting someone - No Race
22.22%
I'll pretend to stomp on the gas, and turn the corner as they take off straight
33.33%
Something else
22.22%
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What do you do in this situation?

Old Mar 1, 2011 | 01:39 PM
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Picture this scenario



- Its late at night

- You're out for a drive

- Not much traffic

- Dry conditions

- No on in your rearview or in front of you

- No cars on the opposite side

- You're at a stop light and a riced out car pulls up next to you revving





You have about 5 seconds to make a decision on what to do when the light turns green.



1....2......3..........4..............5.....GO!



What do you all do?
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 01:42 PM
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i'd never race from a light... at most, i would rev up and take up kind of quick, but then let off at the higher end of first gear and LOL..



usually I would laugh at them and just pretend I didn't see them.



I haven't 'raced' since I was a young punk in the tiburon.. even then, I would never 'race' from a light, always would be at ~45mph or more. and then, was usually like a 45-70mph pull and that was it.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 01:44 PM
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9 out of 10 times I would just ignore them. 1 out of 10 times I would go for it.
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Old Mar 1, 2011 | 01:49 PM
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^

I would most likely race them to the speed limit (45 or 55) then let off the gas. I'll race to the speed limit, I'm not doing 100+ down a city street.



I'd do it 7 out of 10 times if they were high school kids

I'd do it 3 out of 10 times if I thought they'd beat me



It actually happened to me a few weeks ago, but it was a GK Tiburon. Since it was a Hyundai, I had to do it, but we went from a 30 roll. Afterwards I found out he had just swapped his i4 A/T for a V6 M/T. He held with me almost the whole way.
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