Driving Skills: The one thing money cant buy

[40th GT]

idk what you guys are talking about. just being a member here automatically gives you the necessary skills to out drive michael shumacher.

The ignorance is clear. Show these images to any Top Fuel/Funny Car/Pro Stock driver and and they'll tell you what's up..
It's a little harder when your engine makes something called torque and the rear wheels are trying to come to the front.

edit: Oh, and I bet if that "fast driver" was to go to a dragstrip and tried to launch his car, he won't be able to do it as well as the guy who has some seat time in his "fast car." Get my drift? You gotta compare apples to apples.

[ava_Z32]

The ignorance is clear. Show these images to any Top Fuel/Funny Car/Pro Stock driver and and they'll tell you what's up..
It's a little harder when your engine makes something called torque and the rear wheels are trying to come to the front.

edit: Oh, and I bet if that "fast driver" was to go to a dragstrip and tried to launch his car, he won't be able to do it as well as the guy who has some seat time in his "fast car." Get my drift? You gotta compare apples to apples.

i agree about the apples to apples thing, there are drag racers that couldn't come close to making it around a track in a respectable time, and vice versa, but every drag race is in principle the same. straight line. i am very aware that it is MUCH more complicated than that, so please don't flame me i can only imagine what going 0-300 is like, the forces put on one's body taking off that hard, and then stopping that hard are incredible..but a circuit driver or rally driver etc, every track he or she goes to is different and must adapt.
i have a great deal of respect for top fuel drivers and the like, but if i had to choose, i would say that if you were to compare the level of talent taken to drive a top fuel car, to say a rally driver, i would say the rally driver has the harder job. just my humble opinion.


reps for a good point though.

[40th GT]

]i would say that if you were to compare the level of talent taken to drive a top fuel car, to say a rally driver, i would say the rally driver has the harder job. just my humble opinion.


reps for a good point though.

And I agree with you there. I however, will still stand by my original argument, which is that the rally driver/road racer will need some seat time at the strip to get warmed up, and vice versa.
It just makes me cringe when people don't give drag racers the credit they deserve, as if the only skill required is to hit the gas and keep straight.
Reps to you for not getting all butthurt about it.

[ava_Z32]

And I agree with you there. I however, will still stand by my original argument, which is that the rally driver/road racer will need some seat time at the strip to get warmed up, and vice versa.
It just makes me cringe when people don't give drag racers the credit they deserve, as if the only skill required is to hit the gas and keep straight.
Reps to you for not getting all butthurt about it.

oh don't get me wrong, i am by no means saying a rally/road racer could just hop in a top fuel dragster and be on a professional level.