Saturday, December 08, 2007

My 1st race

As I am writing this, I am still having the bout of adrenaline rush. I just had a race along Bukit Timah road with a black Chevrolet. I was taking my time travelling back home from Toh Yi Drive when one stupid car overtake me recklessly! WTF! Heaved a breath that I did not picked up my speed at that time. Then I saw the jackass rest his elbow on his window. I was damn stirred up at that time. I stepped on the accelerator and overtook him to the 3rd lane.

Then on he picked up speed too. Fine! We reached the next traffic junction and the race begun and we were driving like 100-120kmh along Bukit Timah Road towards Bukit Panjang and my rpm shot up to 4+rpm during take off from the traffic light. For those of you who knows me, I don't usually exceed my acceleration to >3rpm. During the route, I realised what I learnt during the Einstein Module in Uni was so true. The faster you drive, the narrower the road looks. How accurate! Anyway before passing the Linear, he gave up. Ha! I won. I just changed my tires alright? The grip to the ground is very good and you want to play play?

Felt an overwhelming surge of excitement. The thrill was one of a kind, even better than the Viking rides. The last time I experience it was when I was racing a Toyota Wish along a short stretch of about 300m at the small road outside my work place. That time, this stupid car don't want to give way to me turning left and simultaneously, both of us raced to the next turn.

I think Singaporean are very bad drivers. Taxi drivers are worse. In Europe, if you are travelling on the 1st lane and an oncoming vehicle high-beamed the car in front, the car will defnitely give way. Or if they see on their rear mirror that a car is approaching, they will automatically give way. In Singapore, the idiot will purposely drive even slower and prevent you from overtaking somemore. There is speed limit correct but if you are so "chicken" you may get fined for driving over the speed limit then for holy sake, move your ass to the left lane and let the approaching car bear the risk of getting fined! What if there is some urgent matters that it is a race against time? Some drivers are just so selfish. In many countries, cars can travel up to 180-200kmh and still feel very safe. Speeding is not as dangerous if tailgating, road-hogging and overtaking unnecessarily are not practised.