[s-cars] M5 vs AMG vs RS6, winner is...

[Paul Friedenberg]

There is an element of panic when police are behind you-

I had always given one of my cop buddies crap and told him that I could
outrun him in my RS2'd 200 20v. He said, "the guys who run always wreck."
Whatever, I thought, until last year when I belw by some cops at about
100mph in a 35, and thought I would turn off and loose them. Lets just say
it's a good thing I had my cop friend to get me out of trouble! Man do those
airbags hurt! :)

Paul
'95 S6- wrecked but not my fault,
'91 200- wrecked, uh, yeah...






>From: GreenBugeye at aol.com
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] M5 vs AMG vs RS6, winner is...
>Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:35:26 EST
>
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>In a message dated 11/15/02 10:56:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>s-car-list-request at audifans.com writes:
>
> > With that said, few of us are good enough to use a drivers car with the
> > level of control that allows us to exploit these capabilities.  Last
>week I
> > drove with a police instructor (not a cop but a contractor) who showed
>me
> > in
> > his 98 Taurus that he could (on a deserted road) pull a 180 any time he
> > needed without crossing the center line.  He did this despite an uneven
> > surface close to the verge.  He gave all the usual caveats about passive
> > safety being the best and defensive driving being the only real
>strategy.
> > He
> > was trying to explain that track capabilities, blinding power, the 1/4
>in a
> > nanosecond are nothing more than boys, toys and steroids unless you know
> > how
> > to use all the capabilities of your vehicle.  He also likened it to
>buying
> > a
> > $5000 Nikon camera and leaving it programmed to auto and never reading
>the
> > manual.
>
>I have a client who runs a high-performance driving school.  Among the
>things
>he does is train police officers in high speed pursuit.  One day, I got to
>be
>the chase vehicle.  The course is set up very much like an autocross, but
>it
>covers more ground.  Anyway, I figured, sure, I've got the big turbo Audi,
>they can chase me all they want.  Well, things didn't go quite according to
>plan.  The frist guy, in his duty cruiser (Crown Vic) with lights and
>sirens
>blazing, was never more than 50 feet behind me.  Second guy was similar.
>Finally, they gave me a rookie officer who'd never done any training
>before,
>and I smoked him.
>
>The moral of the story: driver skill makes all the difference, period.
>That
>point was drilled home later that afternoon when I had my buddies show up
>for
>the autocross.  I was in the Audi, one friend was in his E30 M3 and another
>in his race-prepped 944.  Of course, the whale S4 was the slowest on this
>very tight course, but the amazing thing is that a retired cop who is now a
>full-time driving instructor came over to run the course in one of their
>teen
>driver ed cars -- a 4-cylinder Ford Contour with an automatic -- and he
>smoked all of us.
>
>I'd had sporty cars since I was 18 and was a fairly aggressive driver when
>I
>was younger.  Never wrecked any cars so I figured I knew what I was doing,
>but I was wrong.  I've since been through all the courses my client offers,
>including the 4wd off-road setup, and it improved my driving immensely.  I
>don't care what you drive -- there's no substitute for driver skill.
>
>Chris Eck
>93 S4 (not a scratch in three years)
>59 Bugeye (plenty of road rash, but no big hits)
>ex TR3A (once crashed itself -- when I wasn't in it!)
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