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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hoss" data-source="post: 3264959" data-attributes="member: 549860">probably not, and ill share a little story that made me change the way i thought about street racing real quick...about three days after i got my 350z, i had headed down to SC to pick up my girlfriend and take her back to my place for the weekend to do naughty things to her.  not long after we got on the highway after leaving her house, i was passed by a ram air ***** am, the driver slowed down as he passed, hesitated beside me as both him and the passenger checked out my car, they waived and pulled on ahead.  they were tailed by a black corvette which did the same.  hesitated beside me, we checked out each others cars, waived, and he pulled ahead.i pulled in behind the two of them and we convoyed up the highway about 5 or 10 miles, doing about 75-80mph.  there was some light traffic on the road, but you could see that it was breaking up shortly in front of us.  there was an opening in the right lane (we were in the left), and the three of us knew what was about to happen.  i shifted down one gear in anticipation, not enough...  took it down another gear, engine still wasnt where it wanted to be, so i took it down to third gear just as the ***** am switched lanes and the corvette stepped up to do the same.  the two cars got around the BMW 5 series that was the only thing standing between them and open road, i did not.  the a-hole blocked me and cut me off, almost getting rear ended by me in the process.i changed lanes again to go around the bmw, but by this time i was quite a ways back from the other two cars.  i got around the car, back in the right hand lane, and looked ahead to see some brake lights.  i looked a bit further up the road, and there was a ram air ***** am spinning across the freeway.  it took a matter of MAYBE 10 seconds for the car to be totaled, im not sure how he lost control, or what exactly happened, but as i went past, he had spun the car and hit every body pannel on something before he got tangled up in the north/south dividing wires.the corvette had stopped to check on him, and i started to, but i started thinking that if the cops came and saw three sports cars and heard anything from any witnesses (of which there were probably plenty) that we would all be screwed.  so i drove on.  i did feel like a jackass for not staying, but i figured it was for the best.this was when i decided that i would rather pay a track fee and do these kind of things in a controlled environment.  i wish i could thank the a-hole in the bmw...</blockquote>

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