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Default Vid- Tight Cuda on the track.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/5...5c004a64ea.htm

any of you cats know this car???, car is making some suds! and getting around the track well, the little 2002 is giving him a pain though. lol
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oh man that was cool....was waiting to see if he was gonna take the little car out
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Yea...stinkin' little BMW. Shoulda tapped it lightly
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Old 12-25-2006, 06:52 PM
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Default Re: Vid- Tight Cuda on the track.

Whats so sad is that little Beamer kept up with him! I think a little of the "pit maneuver" was in order for that guy!
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Rick, I agree...
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Default Re: Vid- Tight Cuda on the track.

considering the cuda has almost 1000 lbs on the 2002 it handled it remarkably well.
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Default Re: Vid- Tight Cuda on the track.

By the stripes on the hood it looks like one of the original Dan Gurney All American Racers AAR Cudas. http://www.trans-amseries.com/Drivers/AndyBoone.htm

After racing my Viper in SCCA for a few years I learned to repsect what lack of weight can do in a race. A 1000 lb car with 100 hp is the equal if not better than a 4000 pound car with 400 horses. The record holder in the class used to run was a Lotus Elan, probably weighed 1800 pounds total compared to my 4000 pound Viper.

That said, the guy in the BMW was an a-hole in terms of track etiquette. You don't pull into someone as they are passing you. This looked to be some type of vintage event and if I was the Cuda driver I would have have pulled into the pits after the run, walked into the booth with that tape and showed them all. And if that didnt sway their opinion and forced them to pull the guy's event registration, there is always the pit manueaver on the next run. (but turn the camera off first)
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What's the "pit manueaver"?
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"The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym "PIT" stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it. Other names for the same maneuver are Tactical Vehicle Intervention (TVI), "tactical ramming," and "legal intervention."

Simply put, if the guy in the Cuda even so much as (lightly) touched the rear corner of the Beamer and nudged him, the Beamer would have been out of it and no one would have been the wiser. I think it would have been something VERY well deserved! The Beamer driver was not much of a sport.
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"The PIT maneuver is a method, popular with police departments, by which one car pursuing another can force the pursued vehicle to abruptly turn sideways to the direction of travel, causing the driver to lose control and stop. The acronym "PIT" stands for either Precision Immobilization Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique, or Parallel Immobilization Technique, depending on which police department is using it. Other names for the same maneuver are Tactical Vehicle Intervention (TVI), "tactical ramming," and "legal intervention."

Simply put, if the guy in the Cuda even so much as (lightly) touched the rear corner of the Beamer and nudged him, the Beamer would have been out of it and no one would have been the wiser. I think it would have been something VERY well deserved! The Beamer driver was not much of a sport.
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Ah, that's the PIT maneuver. Yes, that BMW driver deserved that for sure and should have considered himself fortunate to get off that lightly; he was being a real.......(insert expletive of choice).
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