This is one of the strangest encounter I have ever had. The owner was cool, exchanged thumbs up on the way home. FD has always been my top 2 favorite cars, I happend to made the same comment at the meet just 40 minutes prior to the encounter. The owner seems to be pretty cool too.
I was driving with Evof575gtc following from behind in his NSX. There were A slow car in front of us, so I switched to left lane to pass, then there is a FD3 in right lane in front of the slow car.
I wasn't sure if he would run, so I just took off slowly, usual idle off the lline take off but I was ready in case he punch it, he did not took off so I thought no run for sure, I am already in front so I partial throttle shifted to 2nd gear at 25~35mph.
Next thing I know is the sound I am all too familiar with, I guess he decided to go suddenly, that sound sent a chill down to my spine. The turbo spooling whistle, you hear the spooling sound first, car doesn't move, then sudden take off. Too late for me, wrong gear at the wrong time. when I heard the turbo spooling, I knew its too late, way out of power band, ~3k rpm in 2nd, he got at least 1.5 car on me after his turbo hits. Surprisingly he did not gain any distance afterward shortly after I went full throttle, I did slowly made up the distance and ended up pulling ahead on top of 3rd. This is by far the ugliest encounter I have ever had. The run is not really all out on both cars, I felt both cars only gave 75% effort, so I call it even. Evof575gtc witnessed the whole thing. The run ended in 4th gear.
We then curised together for 20 minutes. I took the pic one handed on the way home:
I was driving with Evof575gtc following from behind in his NSX. There were A slow car in front of us, so I switched to left lane to pass, then there is a FD3 in right lane in front of the slow car.
I wasn't sure if he would run, so I just took off slowly, usual idle off the lline take off but I was ready in case he punch it, he did not took off so I thought no run for sure, I am already in front so I partial throttle shifted to 2nd gear at 25~35mph.
Next thing I know is the sound I am all too familiar with, I guess he decided to go suddenly, that sound sent a chill down to my spine. The turbo spooling whistle, you hear the spooling sound first, car doesn't move, then sudden take off. Too late for me, wrong gear at the wrong time. when I heard the turbo spooling, I knew its too late, way out of power band, ~3k rpm in 2nd, he got at least 1.5 car on me after his turbo hits. Surprisingly he did not gain any distance afterward shortly after I went full throttle, I did slowly made up the distance and ended up pulling ahead on top of 3rd. This is by far the ugliest encounter I have ever had. The run is not really all out on both cars, I felt both cars only gave 75% effort, so I call it even. Evof575gtc witnessed the whole thing. The run ended in 4th gear.
We then curised together for 20 minutes. I took the pic one handed on the way home:
