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On 6 Feb 2007 00:47:01 -0800, "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>most like to race against if you had to
>(on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
>driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
>want to race against it.

Completely confused.

Cheers,
Rod.

Ken wrote:
> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.
> 
Please explain:-)


Daryl

"Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.

Any time you'd care to come up with the plain English version of that would 
be fine really.

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Rod <rodp@hotmail.com.removeme> wrote:
>On 6 Feb 2007 00:47:01 -0800, "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>>area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>>most like to race against if you had to
>>(on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
>>driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
>>want to race against it.
>
>Completely confused.

I think he means a GT type car rather then a specially made prototype.

Two off the top of my head are the Mustangs and Corvettes currently used 
in GrandAm/ALMS.

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Ken wrote:
> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.
> 

If money were no object I'd love a crack at a NASCAR Nextel Cup car, at 
Daytona and Bristol. But if limited to a standard road car I reckon I'd 
go for a Radical SR8 and race it against just about anything, at Brands 
Hatch (Indy), Oulton Park and Croft (my local), preferably.

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Noddy wrote:
> "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1170751621.182797.213980@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>> most like to race against if you had to
>> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
>> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
>> want to race against it.
> 
> Any time you'd care to come up with the plain English version of that would 
> be fine really.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Noddy.
> 
> 
> 
I think he's asking what standard road car you'd like to race, and what 
would you like to race it against, either on the street or a race track. 
Money no object.

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"Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd 
> be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car 
> you'd
> want to race against it.
>

Me: Apache Gunship

Other Car: Any BMW

Venue: Desert

AC 

Me:        Ariel Atom
Other car: anything
Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally. 

"Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.
>

Several replies to your question were not very kind.

Disregard those replies -- apparently the people who said mean things about 
you don't realize that standard English is not your native language. 

"MikL" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
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> Me:        Ariel Atom
> Other car: anything
> Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally.
>

Technically an awesome choice. Shame the Atom is ugly as hell !!  :)

AC 

"MikL" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
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> Me:        Ariel Atom
> Other car: anything
> Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally.
>
Totally agree Mikl.  The 300hp Honda Atom and the Nurburgring. 

Ken wrote:

> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.

Bugatti Veyron 16.4
La Sarthe Le Mans 24 hours old circuit (pre-chicane)


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On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:10:20 GMT
"AC" <alancx@gmail.com> blathered on:

> 
> "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1170751621.182797.213980@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> > area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> > most like to race against if you had to
> > (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd 
> > be
> > driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car 
> > you'd
> > want to race against it.
> >
> 
> Me: Apache Gunship
> 
> Other Car: Any BMW
> 
> Venue: Desert
> 
> AC 
> 
> 

Inclined to agree - though I guess an A 10 might be a tad
more,err,sporting.

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Ken wrote:
> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.
> 

If you mean a production car, then:

Me: Ferrari F430 GT
Other: Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (the 997 version, of course)
Venue: Watkins Glen - full course

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AC wrote:
> "MikL" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
> news:45c87453$0$5748$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>> Me:        Ariel Atom
>> Other car: anything
>> Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally.
> 
> Technically an awesome choice. Shame the Atom is ugly as hell !!  :)

There's elegance in its simplicity; a bit like the Lotus Seven.
(Whether it also becomes a classic remains to be seen.)  I'd love
to drive one - but I'm no racer.

My favourite race would have to be Top Gear's "Duel @ Prescott Hill".
Oldies (Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite) vs. Ricers (Pug 306 V6) - classic!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXTgpfmBKDY

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Huge wrote:
> On 2007-02-06, forty <cforteNO@SPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>> Ken wrote:
>>> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>>> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>>> most like to race against if you had to
>>> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
>>> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
>>> want to race against it.
>>>
>> If you mean a production car, then:
>>
>> Me: Ferrari F430 GT
>> Other: Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (the 997 version, of course)
>> Venue: Watkins Glen - full course
> 
> Watkins Glen is very narrow and windey.
> 
> Beautiful location, though.
> 
> 
> 
The track itself is on par with most other road courses, but the armco 
barriers are very tight and there's a frightening lack of run-off in 
some dangerous areas (like the Esses, the Outer Loop, and the exit of 
the Boot). The curves have a very graceful, natural flow to them and the 
elevation changes (equivalent to an 11-story building from highest point 
to lowest point IIRC) add to that. Even the chicane at the end of the 
backstretch has a decent flow to it. It's much like a North American Spa 
IMHO.

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On 6 Feb 2007 00:47:01 -0800, "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>most like to race against if you had to
>(on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
>driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
>want to race against it.

Trabant. I might not be last, for once.

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"AC" <alancx@gmail.com> wrote in news:wmZxh.717$s47.600@newsfe4-
gui.ntli.net:

> 
> "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1170751621.182797.213980@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>> most like to race against if you had to
>> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd 
>> be
>> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car 
>> you'd
>> want to race against it.
>>
> 
> Me: Apache Gunship
> 
> Other Car: Any BMW
> 
> Venue: Desert
> 
> AC 
> 
> 

I've done the California desert in a VW Beetle and on a series of CZ 
Enduros and it was fun, but I'd like to try something different now that 
I'm an old geezer. 
Swamp buggies look like they'd be a hoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_FVSkoNfM

And I've had a desire to get behind the wheel of a AA/Fuel Altered since 
I was a kid in the 60s:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-272386709386326186
&q=aa+fuel+altered&hl=en

Wait a minute, didn't the OP say money was no object? I'd buy up all the 
land where Riverside Raceway used to sit, knock down the new buildings, 
rebuild the track, resurrect Mark Donohue (because I'd definitely need a 
topnotch tutor) and see what kind of damage I could inflict on a Porsche 
917/30.

Bud

On 6 Feb 2007 00:47:01 -0800, Ken
wrote:

> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> most like to race against if you had to
> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> want to race against it.

me try a f22-raptor against
airforce-1, over d.c.

MikL wrote:
> Me:        Ariel Atom
> Other car: Me in the Radical SR8
> Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev-LJb1C6_4

Lap of Thruxton 1m 09s, 6 seconds quicker than a superbike. Your Atom 
will do it in about 1m 23s


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["Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com>]
| Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
| area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
| most like to race against if you had to
| (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
| driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
| want to race against it.

what car I would like to race *against*?

well, if there was money involved I'd want to race *against* a Lada
Niva.

-B

["AC" <alancx@gmail.com>]
| "MikL" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
| news:45c87453$0$5748$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
| > Me:        Ariel Atom
| > Other car: anything
| > Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally.
| >
| 
| Technically an awesome choice. Shame the Atom is ugly as hell !!  :)

look at it this way:  there's not an awfully lot of it to look at.

-B

[Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>]
| 
| And to the OP; A Porsche 917/30 at Le Mans.
| 
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917

that's a bit like saying "I'd like to play russian roulette.  with 6
bullets".

-B

Noddy wrote:
> 
> "Ken" <lavrulr111@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1170751621.182797.213980@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
> > area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
> > most like to race against if you had to
> > (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd be
> > driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car you'd
> > want to race against it.
> 
> Any time you'd care to come up with the plain English version of that would
> be fine really.


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Bjorn Borud wrote:
> [Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>]
> | 
> | And to the OP; A Porsche 917/30 at Le Mans.
> | 
> | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917
> 
> that's a bit like saying "I'd like to play russian roulette.  with 6
> bullets".
> 
> -B
How about the 917 CanAm monster. 0-60 in 1.9 sec, 0-200 in 10.9 sec. Jesus

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"Paul Taylor" <birder@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message 
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> AC wrote:
>> "MikL" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
>> news:45c87453$0$5748$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>>> Me:        Ariel Atom
>>> Other car: anything
>>> Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally.
>>
>> Technically an awesome choice. Shame the Atom is ugly as hell !! 
>> :)
>
> There's elegance in its simplicity; a bit like the Lotus Seven.
> (Whether it also becomes a classic remains to be seen.)  I'd love
> to drive one - but I'm no racer.


Nah, not a bit like the Lotus, that car is a work of art. I prefer the 
more modern Dax Rush, but the Seven is the Grandaddy.

If your saying you'd, love to *drive* and Atom, then I really with 
you. I just dont want any one seeing me in it !!!!  :)

AC 

"big.spud" <big.spud@yahoo.ca> wrote in message 
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> On 6 Feb 2007 00:47:01 -0800, Ken
> wrote:
>
>> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>> most like to race against if you had to
>> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd 
>> be
>> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car 
>> you'd
>> want to race against it.
>
> me try a f22-raptor against
> airforce-1, over d.c.

If you really want to insult them, pick a Mirage.

AC (really hoping the mirage is french!!!) 

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>Round the M25.
What's the point in racing around a parking lot?
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AC wrote:
> "big.spud" <big.spud@yahoo.ca> wrote in message 
> news:jwpstnb6fl7c$.95ki88qn145q$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On 6 Feb 2007 00:47:01 -0800, Ken
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Which type of car (be it one suitable for driving in a normal urban
>>> area and / or any professional racetrack only standard cars) would
>>> most like to race against if you had to
>>> (on either a road, or on a professional race track), assuming you'd 
>>> be
>>> driving (if money wasn't a limitation) the preferred type of car 
>>> you'd
>>> want to race against it.
>> me try a f22-raptor against
>> airforce-1, over d.c.
> 
> If you really want to insult them, pick a Mirage.
> 
> AC (really hoping the mirage is french!!!) 
> 
> 
It is, but I assume you'd actually want to shoot Airforce 1 down, so go 
for a Rafelle instead.

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In article <45c893e2$0$25306$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>,
Paul Taylor  <birder@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>AC wrote:
>> "MikL" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
>> news:45c87453$0$5748$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>>> Me:        Ariel Atom
>>> Other car: anything
>>> Venue:    Any racetrack, or a tarmac rally.
>> 
>> Technically an awesome choice. Shame the Atom is ugly as hell !!  :)
>
>There's elegance in its simplicity; a bit like the Lotus Seven.
>(Whether it also becomes a classic remains to be seen.)  I'd love
>to drive one - but I'm no racer.
>
>My favourite race would have to be Top Gear's "Duel @ Prescott Hill".
>Oldies (Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite) vs. Ricers (Pug 306 V6) - classic!
>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXTgpfmBKDY

Got another place for that clip?

"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."

--Ken

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