I was racing my uncle today in his 97 Boxster 5spd. His car is lowered about an inch with 17 inch wheels. Needless to say it handles really well. The street we were racing down is 4 lanes wide with 2 lanes in each direction. I travel the road quit often so it's not unfamiliar territory for me. We pulled up to the red an began revving our engines the light turned green we both took off in a hurry. I took him off the line and had about a car lengths lead on him going into the first set of turns. A right and then a left into a straight away. Nobody really pulling on anybody. I was impressed that my car was able to hang right next to his while still having a small lead. Not to mention I was taking it to redline in every gear. As we ended the straight now doing 100 mph we were entering a pretty sharp left. I was in the left lane he was in the right. I've never entered a turn of this degree at the speed I was traveling. My suspension is the sport package with 18 inch RS4's wrapped in goodyear SO3's. I soon realized that I was going to fast for the turn. My car had excessive body roll going through the turn caused my rear end to get loose. My uncle saw what was happening and backed off. I immediately got on the brakes and counter steered my slide. The car then kicked to the left and I continued steering in the direction I should be traveling. This happened about three more times until I regained full control of my vehicle. Needless to say I scared the sh** out of myself and my passenger. (Oh yeah we were both carrying passengers.) I also believe that the fact that I had quattro and my defensive driving saved my life. I also think that my uncles boxster is a better handling car. I belive he could have kept going and have no problem getting out of the turn. With this being said drive safely and know your limits.

 

Glad ur safe. Im not gonna say your dumb cause i think you already know u are and i hope you learn from it.

 

Same thing happened in my first Civic... Except I flew off the road, hit the curb, got air born, hit a tree, and rolled into a retention pond... I know the feeling of "Damn, I just about died..."

Anyway, good to hear you're ok, take it as a lesson.

 

yeah that might scare you shitless. learned your lesson i bet?

same thing happened to a couple of my friends, but neither as bad as either of you. well except one of them missjudged a turn and took it too hot and slid right into the side railings and may have totalled his car, was this christmas eve 2 days ago.




need to be more careful, sounds like everyone's been pretty lucky so far. but some day someone's gonna stop posting and we're gonna wonder why.

 

good to hear your ok

 

I had a similar thing happen with my 200 20v. i'm driving to work on the HW. where I live thy like to bottleneck the roads every mile. I'm approaching one of these bottleneck and see traffic slowing. i slow, change the station on the radio and look up to see traffic dead stopped. I had about 4 carlenghts when I looked up so I immediately had to swerve. when I got in the burm, i flishtailed horribly about 6 times until I stopped sideways about 35 cars down. Scarry stuff. I now view that area of the HW a lil differently

 

On the same not my friend (VW VR6) ended up in a rocky field on christmas night because he missed a turn. Big rocks destroyed the bottom of his car and there were chunks of metal (oil pan, engine block) on the ground where he hit. He was fine, but his car is wrecked.

 

when the quattro system does that just put your foot the the floor and the quattro system will straighten you out hitting the brakes is the worst thing you could do you are lucky you didn't spin out

 

Good to hear you're ok. I'm sure it was a lesson well learned.

 

Oh yeah, lesson well learned... That happened a year ago about this time (December 20th,2004), after it happened, it kind of snapped me back into reality. I've been a much smarter person, and driver over all. Lesson WELL learned... Damn that was a bad time.