Does going for a hoon get your adrenaline pumping?

[HundredthIdiot]

The night after my first track day I couldn't sleep at all. Huge adrenalin buzz, and that was in an MX5!

Getting proper shaky fear from road driving might indicate inadequate error margins.

[Greg_D]

RobM77 said:

I'm not sure I've ever felt adrenaline from driving a car, even a slicks and wings single seater. I do absolutely love driving though.

Ditto, the last time i was aware of being 'pumped up' was back when i rode horses seriously, but there was probably a certain level of physical tiredness contributing to that bit of 'hand wobble'

I too love driving, but once you have been on track a lot, you realise how out of order 'hooning speed' is on the public road. Making progress, yes. Hooning, no

Greg

[torres del paine]

Yes it does but only at the right time of day, i.e. early mornings (early dawn when there's a glimmer of light) when all the muppets are still tucked up in bed.

[Diabolik]

To be honest I wouldn't want to be driving near/past someone who's adrenalin is pumping because of the way they are driving on a public road.

Remember if you've not been driving 2 years yet, 3 points is all it takes for you to be on your last chance.

[dangerousB]

HundredthIdiot said:

The night after my first track day I couldn't sleep at all. Huge adrenalin buzz, and that was in an MX5!

Getting proper shaky fear from road driving might indicate inadequate error margins.

I totally agree although I must say track driving/riding has the opposite effect on me . . . I experience the deep sleep of a contented man

[Marf]

OMNIO said:

Too many speed cameras and what few NSL roads we have are staring to have the limit reduced to 50mph.

You need to research your routes better

al1991 said:

It was just one of those hoons where everything feels 'right', everything works out, and the car feels just great.

But when I get back from a hoon, I'm always a bit shakey and 'pumped up'.

Anyone else get this?

Not every time, but yes have had that, usually on those rare occasions you stumble across someone else game for a bit of a squirt. Stopped off and chatted with a few bods that I've run into over the years.

[Doniger]

dangerousB said:

HundredthIdiot said:

The night after my first track day I couldn't sleep at all. Huge adrenalin buzz, and that was in an MX5!

Getting proper shaky fear from road driving might indicate inadequate error margins.

I totally agree although I must say track driving/riding has the opposite effect on me . . . I experience the deep sleep of a contented man

Same, haven't had an adenaline buzz from hooning since I did my first track day.

...actually tell a lie - roof down driving does it for me, especially if the weather is nice.
Especially my first ever drive of a car with the roof down. It was a Boxster but it wasn't a hoon as such, I was on absolute best behaviour for fear of hurting someone else's Porsche...that definitely got the adrenaline squirting a bit

[Chicane-UK]

Definitely! If I really push the car, after a minute or so my legs start to shake from (what I can only assume) is the adrenaline

[HereBeMonsters]

Definitely.

[Gwagon111]

I find it's a mixture of adrenaline pumping, and piss boiling nowadays. Adrenaline from the hooning, and piss boiling from the piss poor state of most of the roads now .

[sjabrown]

It's a long time since I've felt the adrenaline going on the public road. Rallying (co-driving and driving) is one reason, and the fact that the day job often has me dealing with the aftermath of smashes is the other.

Actually last time the adrenaline was really going was transferring a patient 66 miles from one hospital to a bigger one in a fair hurry - sitting in the back of a softly sprung ambulance at 3am on a road where I know a lot of deer lurk. Every time I felt the braking I had a weird surge of adrenaline.

[FreeLitres]

The TVR never fails to get the heart pumping!!!

ETA: Especially when the back end skips a bit!

Edited by FreeLitres on Tuesday 11th January 19:50

[Stick Legs]

Hell Yes!

Kept my mate in his E30 318is from passing my Volvo S40 today! Best fun I've had for a while, and all at under the ton.

When I have been driving really really hard I get a bit of a left knee tremble, adrenaline pumping for sure!

[Adam205]

The only time I really get it now is sat on the start line at a hillclimb when the light goes green. Its you, the car, a mile of winding tarmac and about 5 litres of adrenaline. Absolutely brilliant

[Black S2K]

I used to (nowhere near as much as a track) but more a release of seratonin.

These days, the spacktards round every bend, scameras, bomb holes & gridlock means I get adrenaline for all the wrong reasons.

The South East sucks...

[al1991]

Diabolik said:

To be honest I wouldn't want to be driving near/past someone who's adrenalin is pumping because of the way they are driving on a public road.

Remember if you've not been driving 2 years yet, 3 points is all it takes for you to be on your last chance.

I always back off when someone is going past, even on a straight piece of road.

Bear in mind my car struggles to get past the ton.

So it's surely no more dangerous than someone in a BMW barge driving at 'normal' speeds

[John D.]

Used to. Think I've done it too much now


Wanging it down a good road still raises a smile and a real nice feeling though.

Personally I'm not sure bikes are so superior in this respect as some insist, but then I have'nt been riding very long at all. Sure they are generally much more involving but I've had a much bigger buzz from driving so far. Perhaps I just need more confidence on 2-wheels to really give it some and it will all make sense.