Porsches are shit.
Now I have the attention of Marty, Tons -O, Muppet and some others I will now tell you why Smurf and I will forever side with Jeremy Clarkson and not Hamster on the 911 debate.
I was invited to take part in an autocross event (driving around cones in a car park one at a time to compete for the best time) at Portland International Raceway today. My chum Trimbo (Ben) has a rather smart Mazda speedsix. The mazda version of a scooby STi I guess.
I decided against it as it would not be too much fun in the automatic I have at the mo. I was dead keen on doing it except for that :(
In the end Kate and I went snowboarding this morning, 4" of fresh overnight and it was snowing all day. We left early to go and see Ben at the track and tell him how he drives like a girl.
I found a place to park and we could see some cars going around the cones at a fair rate of knots. I took Smurf for a walk to find Ben's car, as we went down the pit lane we found the mighty speedsix, but no Ben. I dug out the mobile and gave him a call, typically enough it went to voice mail. Then Kate and I were temporally distracted by a very flashy red 911 GT3 tearing around the course.
As the beep went for me to leave a voice mail the wanker of a driver of the GT3 after completing the course mistook the accelerator for the brake, floored the bastard, tore through the protection of the little orange cones and came straight at us!
Luckily, and I REALLY MEAN THAT, Smurf and I jumped left, the 911 swerved away from us, missing us by 1 METRE! and took out SIX OTHER CARS!!!! The white Celica we were stood in front of got shunted a cars length back . . .He must have been doing 50 at impact, at least.
I then hung up on the voice mail. Ben has a very interesting message on their that I will try and post on here or something later along with a few pictures of the mess . . .
Anyhow, we are all fine, luckily no one was injured. I will not be going back to the course and I will not be doing any autocross over here and I will not buy a Porsche!
Jeremy, we are 100% with you.
posted by gsmblue @ 5:22 pm
4 Comments:
Oi! Porsches are not shit.
Those that drive them in America, on the other hand, are quite possibly shit. :-)
You can't discriminate against a manufacturer based on what some knobcheese does with one of their products!
True. The guy that was driving was a totally tosser. He had NEVER driven the GT3 before and had already had an off in his Corvette.
He owns a car dealership and had decals on his Corvette. I would not be surprised if the people that had 6 cars written off sued him!
I am more pissed with the lack of safety on the course and the fact in a field of Audis and MX-5s there was a frigging GT3, wrong environment for that car . . .
I think Clarckson once said, it is not Porsches he hates, just the people that drive them. I now agree ;)
Dude:
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/25/autocross-carnage-gt3-takes-out-a-wrx-celica-gt-a3/
yep, I was right in there . . . It was super scary . . . .
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