Ultima health warning!!!!!
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I need to warn some would be owners and builders of a worrying Phenomena that I keep experiencing in my car.
It started with my work friends who ask for rides, so you take them out to show them what it can do.... but you can't give it the full welly because there is never any roads you can do so in any kind of safety.
So you return feeling you've not quite given them the full experience......... but even so there is a problem!
I experienced this problem/Phenomena again whilst at Bruntingthorpe last Thursday!
There were loads of extremelly fast and exotic cars there.
A couple of guys were admiring the car and one was bold enough to ask for a ride. "certainly" I reply "your welcolm to when I'm warming the car up ready for the run".
Anyway a few hours past and they are ready for my car so I becon the guy over who gets in and buckles up.
After its been idling long enough I give the bloke a thumbs up and trickle the few metres to the track........... and then give it 100% throttle, the tyres light up and we fire off down the straight.
I keep this full throttle aproach right up to around 170mph and then back off and slow ready to have another launch. On looking across I see my passenger is as white as a sheet so I stop.
Basically I had scared the $#!£ out of him and words of "nearly threw up" and the like were muttered.
To be fair on the guy he had the absolute full on experience and he wanted to continue, he then went on to suffer the punishment of a few 0-100-0 practice runs of which one of them I totally filled the car with so much tyre smoke we had to wait for it to clear.
PEOPLE JUST DON'T REALISE HOW FAST 'FAST' IS.
even the people who are into cars and have had a few 'rapid' cars in there day are never ready for this level of performance.
Maybe we should come up with a health warning that you give to would be passangers
as I found out one passenger had a pacemaker AFTER I had taken him for a spin!
It started with my work friends who ask for rides, so you take them out to show them what it can do.... but you can't give it the full welly because there is never any roads you can do so in any kind of safety.
So you return feeling you've not quite given them the full experience......... but even so there is a problem!
I experienced this problem/Phenomena again whilst at Bruntingthorpe last Thursday!
There were loads of extremelly fast and exotic cars there.
A couple of guys were admiring the car and one was bold enough to ask for a ride. "certainly" I reply "your welcolm to when I'm warming the car up ready for the run".
Anyway a few hours past and they are ready for my car so I becon the guy over who gets in and buckles up.
After its been idling long enough I give the bloke a thumbs up and trickle the few metres to the track........... and then give it 100% throttle, the tyres light up and we fire off down the straight.
I keep this full throttle aproach right up to around 170mph and then back off and slow ready to have another launch. On looking across I see my passenger is as white as a sheet so I stop.
Basically I had scared the $#!£ out of him and words of "nearly threw up" and the like were muttered.
To be fair on the guy he had the absolute full on experience and he wanted to continue, he then went on to suffer the punishment of a few 0-100-0 practice runs of which one of them I totally filled the car with so much tyre smoke we had to wait for it to clear.
PEOPLE JUST DON'T REALISE HOW FAST 'FAST' IS.
even the people who are into cars and have had a few 'rapid' cars in there day are never ready for this level of performance.
Maybe we should come up with a health warning that you give to would be passangers
as I found out one passenger had a pacemaker AFTER I had taken him for a spin!
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