91 N/A vs. S13
I was driving home a couple of nights ago around 3-4 am. There's a nice stretch of highway with a winding section that is the key point to the race. If you can exit at a faster speed than your opponent, that's the race right there. As I pull up to the stoplight before the highway begins, a white 240 pulls up next to me, also by himself. His window is already down, so I roll down the window and ask "Wanna go at it?" while revving. He acknowledges and rolls up his window, while I do the same. Listening to his revving car, I figure it's about the same as mine, intake/exhaust, no real power mods, no SR20DET, most likely still a KA.
As the light turns green, we both launch. He pulls ahead and I get behind him, while chasing. There's a good mile to mile and a half section of high-speed winding road before the critical area, and I stick to him the whole time, matching his entry and exit speeds. We're both running about 110-120 through this area and I see that he's about as good as I am. I start trying to pass him but he doesn't give me any room.
We approach the critical area, which are 6 sharp turns (3 sets of S turns) that have a warning 25 mph sign, but which can be taken at 100 mph. I shadow him through the first 3 turns, but I change my line and disrupt his rhythm a little on the 4th corner. I feint a move to the inside and line up to the outside of the 5th corner, gambling and cornering as aggressive as I can. I somehow end up side-by-side in the 6th turn which is the sharpest, and being that it's 4 in the morning and I'm already crazed enough as it is, I go into the corner flat at 85 mph. As I'm cornering, I see him brake behind me and I notice my car begin to understeer. Fortunately, just as I'm about to hit the wall, the road straightens out and my car barely makes it. I exit the section at 95 mph and continue to pull away from him. I give him an appreciative hazards, his lights disappearing from my rearview a few seconds later.
I think that was the fastest I've ever driven this highway.
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