NAC!! Re: AWD dont do well at the dragstrip ??????????????

[Chris Dyer]

I lost the url, but there's a guy w/a hopped up Dodge Caravan (late 80s 
vintage) turbo who consistently wins his drag events--and he drives it 
daily.  I've seen the mpegs, they're hilarious.

from chrisdyer at hotmail.com



>From: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
>To: <one at humanspeakers.com>, <Identiles at aol.com>
>CC: <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: Re: AWD dont do well at the dragstrip ??????????????
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:35:01 -0400
>
>Got to agree with Huw, I don't find drag races particularly meaningful and
>don't say much about the engineering in the car. We don't see them up here,
>but last weekend they did have a meet at the Elliot Lake airport running 
>1/8
>mile drags and invited a bunch of name racers (from where? who knows - I
>certainly don't). Lots of new Mustangs & Camaros all tricked out and using
>the burn-out pit to heat up the tires before the run. Then there was the 
>guy
>in the mid '70's Cougar. With street tires. And mufflers. And metal patches
>pop-riveted over the rust holes in the fenders. And plates on the car - he
>drove it there. He drove around the burn-out pit - he did have to drive 
>home
>on those tires, after all.
>He beat them all and never even chirped his tires on the launch. Just put 
>it
>in "drive" and drove down the strip. He was chastised by a marshal when he
>hung his left arm out the window, though. What a hoot! The crowd absolutely
>loved him. Don't know what he had in it or how he did it - they had him
>stuck down at the far end of the pits with the cars that wouldn't run.
>No Audis in sight.
>
>I did enjoy drag racing my S4 on Lake Bernard with the other members of the
>SOS club last February - you do get AWD wheelspin when you launch on ice.
>And the power slide when you throw it sideways at the end of the run is a
>blast!
>
>Fred Munro
>'94 S4
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Huw Powell" <audi at mediaone.net>
>To: <Identiles at aol.com>
>Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 6:52 PM
>Subject: Re: AWD dont do well at the dragstrip ??????????????
>
>
> >
> > > THIS ONE I LOVE - (Listen, there may be a horsepower war out there, 
>but
> > > Audi's last priority should be trying to show up Hondas at a local 
>drag
> > > strip, should it?? )
> > >
> > > You want to know what those Honda's were running - 15s, 16s, and 17s.
>Those
> > > Audis are 40 thousand dollar cars they should be kicking ass.
> >
> > [major meaningless snipped]
> >
> > my, this *is* getting boring.  You want a drag racer, get some big old
> > RWD iron with a 426 hemi V8 and have some fun.  And not on the street,
> > either...
> >
> > Audi strengths, and probably why most of us own them, are not simply
> > getting 1320 feet behind you as fast as possible from a standing start.
> > They are a balance of sure, steady power, nimble grace, effortlessly
> > informative handling.  Remember the Coupe GT with the incredible skid
> > pad numbers?  Not much that would show up in a "rev it, dump it, end it"
> > race.  But you know, around here where I live, some of the roads have
> > corners...
> >
> > A drag race is one of the least meaningful exercises in streetable car
> > competition, unless, I suppose, you live in a town that has only one
> > road, right down the middle, with all the girls and women lined up to
> > watch the lights change and the boys peel out...
> >
> > --
> > Huw Powell
> >
> > http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/
> >
> > http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>


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