Had to gloat...

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I've been chased through twisties a couple of times by reasonable cars, and left several chavs in saxos/whatever who think they're god's gift to driving for dead, but never really played with or "followed" anything serious :( Everyone round here just drives Vauxhall Zafiras and gets in the way :(
 
DrDee said:
Clearly you have never been on an early morning hoon with a group of enthusiasts.

I have a standard 1.8 mx5 and on a sunday morning run have regularly kept up with a

Porsche 911 Turbo 996
TVR's of all kinds
Nissan 350Z's
BMW M3's

How have I done this? Keeping up is ridiculously easy on country roads when you are following, I don't think that your turbo has done anything for you against a DB9 on anything but the straights.
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I really dont believe that your 1.8 MX5 "kept up" with a 996 Turbo.
 
Whenever the car in front has to slow for anything to check the road is clear you will close the gap right up. I'm sure you would be able to keep in touch with the DB9 though if the roads are slow enough.
 
Its all down to the driver tbh and how well they know the roads . I could beat some really quick stuff along certain stretches of road only because i know the road very well .

And at the end of the day if the road is tight and narrow there is only so fast you can go no matter what car you have .

Its always nice when you show up and expensive car but at the end of the day you will always know in the right hands/road it will leave you for dead .

Persil
 
I used to work split shifts when I was in uni at my local pubs kitchen. I used to ride my 125 down the back roads and make 4 trips a day and on the nice days I'd get a lot of born again riders try and keep up with my tiny wheeled 4 stroke death trap. I had a few stop with me and tell me I was insane. Frankly, they just didn't know the road and where the bumps were. I could commit to corners a I knew every camber and surface. Was good fun, but nothing to amazing. Would love to have swapped places with them and used my road knowlege with their machinery though!
 
I've kept-up with an F355 when i had the Supercharged 5, wasn't that hard to do.

NSL country roads and lots of traffic, he would overtake two cars and i would follow etc. When we go onto an empty section of road as expected he left me for dead, nice chap though stopped outside his house gates and had a chat, he was impressed the 5 could pull so well past cars.
 
Howard said:
I've been chased through twisties a couple of times by reasonable cars, and left several chavs in saxos/whatever who think they're god's gift to driving for dead, but never really played with or "followed" anything serious :( Everyone round here just drives Vauxhall Zafiras and gets in the way :(
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:D

We'll have to go for a hoon one evening...oh wait...my car isn't interesting. :p

As for following, as has been said, it's much easier to follow, especially if you know the road, but if you're leading it's a lot harder, and you don't always want to push it properly.

I suspect if he had properly pushes it, he'd have left you for dead.

As for fast cars going slowly. I was stuck behind a Porsche of some sort 911/Boxster/Carrera/etc. (I don't know, they all look the same to me) yesterday on my way home, sat in the overtaking lane doing slightly less than I wanted to, and wouldn't budge over when there was space, it got boring quickly but there was nothing I could do. :(

I do enjoy following more expensive metal and keeping up though, but if I don't know the road I'll back off a bit as I don't want to push them to do something stupid, or end up doing something stupid myself.
 
All this really means is that you had more balls than he did. It's always much harder being the lead car, you just need to match him, he has to think for himself. B roads are narrow, DB9's are not, your car is worth 20p, his is worth a tad more.

Not entirely sure there is anything to be 'proud' of in this thread really, I dont think anyone here would rather have been sat where you were instead of where the Aston driver was.
 
I live in Jersey where A LOT of the country roads are about a car and a half wide (If not less) and being pushed by some (smug looking individual) behind is pretty annoying.

Following is so easy and you realise this when its you in front with someone following, usually in something much slower and all you can think is "how the hell are they keeping up"
 
Firestar_3x said:
I've kept-up with an F355 when i had the Supercharged 5, wasn't that hard to do.

NSL country roads and lots of traffic, he would overtake two cars and i would follow etc. When we go onto an empty section of road as expected he left me for dead, nice chap though stopped outside his house gates and had a chat, he was impressed the 5 could pull so well past cars.
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I'm more surprised you followed him to his house! :p
 
Dorje said:
I'm more surprised you followed him to his house! :p
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His house was just off a country road, i was going to head straight on but as he turned into the area infront of his gates he gave us a wave so i decided to have a chat :)

Wasn't like i followed him down a housing estate or something :p
 
I'm not sure why everyone thinks a DB9 Convertible would leave a turbo'd 5 down a backroad. Have you looked at the weight of the thing? 1770 kg vs 980 kg. It is a GT car, not an out and out sports car.

Don't get me wrong, I thought it looked stunning and obviously I'd rather own the DB9. All I'm saying is that it was matched everywhere during that drive. I'd expect it to start pulling away past 100mph but not until then.

Hell, the 5 even has a higher power / weight ratio... just!

450 bhp / 1770 kg = 254 bhp / tonne
250 bhp / ~980 kg? = 255 bhp / tonne

Re: saitrix

1.8 1994 Import
BEGI S3
Megasquirt PNP
RC Engineering 550cc Injectors
No MAF
Stainless seperated gasses downpipe
2.5" stainless exhaust
Decat
6 puck paddle clutch
 
I wonder how the equivilent thread on the DB9 Owners Club would have gone :D

'Was just out enjoying the music of my V12, minding my own business, when this MX5..'
 
Howard said:
When we were driving on Sunday I was expecting the Z4 infront of us to be driving at least a bit enthusistaically, but he was going uber slowly :(
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Same, rather frustratingly slow. 50mph in the 60's :(

Then this corsa just pulled out of a junction in front of me and continued at 30mph with us lot convoying at 60....idiot.
 
mejinks said:
Its easy to keep up with stuff in convoy.:p

I would bet my left testicle you wouldn't be able to come close to a 996 in a race with a standard MX5.
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Thats exactly my point... :rolleyes:

At no point was I trying to say my mx5 could overtake the Porcshe or beat him in a race/time attack event, but staying behind him on anything but a straight line is easy (as easy as driving at omg awesome speeds is).


panthro said:
I really dont believe that your 1.8 MX5 "kept up" with a 996 Turbo.
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eidolon said:
Porsche 996 turbo - 0-100mph in 9.2 secs
Mazda MX5 1.8i - 0-100mph in 24.2 secs

I can imagine it was a pretty close one...
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Its easy to follow someone when they are in front and entering corners first and all you have to do is follow there line, it takes an awful lot less to follow than it does to lead. Remember, we are not talking laps of Silverstone here, were talking narrow public country lanes, with the possibility of traffic and what ever else.

Eidolon, you live all of 2 minutes away from my house 2 roundabouts up the ring road I believe, you have a much better car than me, fancy going on a hoon to cheddar gorge and seeing if I can "keep up"?

Sin_Chase said:
Following is so easy and you realise this when its you in front with someone following, usually in something much slower and all you can think is "how the hell are they keeping up"
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Exactly
 
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