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ATTN: all 5spd drivers ! Downshifting is now considered cheating!

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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:43 PM
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ATTN: all 5spd drivers ! Downshifting is now considered cheating!

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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:48 PM
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:49 PM
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that's the most retarded thing I've ever heard
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:53 PM
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that's the most retarded thing I've ever heard
Not only that, but they were seriously debating the issue like it's a real important issue. Bunch of idiots!!!

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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:54 PM
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what gets me is..

he said the guy was red lining every gear.. then downshifted and passed him

thas so BS.. you down shift while you are redlining thats bye bye motor.. well thats if you own a celica or an e36 m3
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 04:21 PM
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what gets me is..

he said the guy was red lining every gear.. then downshifted and passed him

thas so BS.. you down shift while you are redlining thats bye bye motor.. well thats if you own a celica or an e36 m3
Or an RSX-S.
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 04:21 PM
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that's so funny
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 04:24 PM
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 04:27 PM
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what a tard.....hes a freaking insult to all automagic drivers around the nation!! he would have been even more ****ed if he was driving a 3spd neon!
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 04:58 PM
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Dude is an idiot.
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 04:59 PM
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he also neglected the fact that if he were accel. hard @... say 40 mph... he would down shift into a lower gear. what a dumb *****.
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 05:09 PM
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que retarded
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 06:03 PM
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LOL, I cheat all the time then!!!!!!


Old Oct 4, 2002 | 06:26 PM
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I got my but kicked today by a bone stock HX civic! Didn't want to cheat so I left it in 6th at 45 when we started. I can't believe I have been cheating all these years. Felt good.
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 06:43 PM
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WTH? When you stomp on the gas in an automatic, the tranny will downshift. The only difference in a 5spd is that you can downshift to whatever gear yourself. So if the auto can downshift, why not a 5spd? That guy is an idiot. I didn't bother to read pass the first page. If you lose, you lose, don't come up with lame excuses.
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 06:49 PM
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 07:02 PM
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"Ask any racer, any real racer, it doesn't matter if you win by an inch or by a mile, winning is winning..."




Sorry, I had a F&F flashback
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 07:50 PM
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Originally posted by Gotrice4
"Ask any racer, any real racer, it doesn't matter if you win by an inch or by a mile, winning is winning..."




Sorry, I had a F&F flashback
Duuuude, i almost had you!
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 07:52 PM
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Originally posted by Gotrice4
"Ask any racer, any real racer, it doesn't matter if you win by an inch or by a mile, winning is winning..."




Sorry, I had a F&F flashback
lol but it's true. After all, what is the aim of racing at all? Isnt it to prove one car is faster than the other or one driver is better than the other? If they took of at the same instant and accelerated, downshfting isn't a possibility unless the manual guy isnt ending his gears which is stupid in a race.
Old Oct 4, 2002 | 11:36 PM
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so i guess its not cheating if you drive a 6 speed?

and also does this moron realize that when you floor it in an automatic that the tranny downshifts AUTOmatically?
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 12:12 AM
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that thing is helarious. my english teacher read us some of that book. this kid is dumb as h*ll. i feel ashamed just because i own an automatic and so does he. im going to take that "how things work" book and hit him across the face with it
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 05:56 AM
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"its not cheating if..."

"its not cheating if you let your dog lick peanut butter off your *****... you know... cause its your dog." (road trip)
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 06:05 AM
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People like this make all us look better
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 07:17 AM
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can auto owners get any more pathetic.
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 08:52 AM
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Originally posted by SteVTEC
that's the most retarded thing I've ever heard

and floor auto = downshift

so hes pretty much saying flooring is cheating, wait till i'll smoke him in my dad's minivan I would like to see what excuse he'll post up on that board. "the minivan downshifted into reverse & got 15 cars on me that wans't fair!! and after 3 hours i finally caught up & passed him in a parking lot!!"
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 08:56 AM
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i thought all ATT: somethingorother threads would be deleted by the moderators..



but wait... a moderator started the thread.. can we now in turn moderate him??






hmmm bending and breaking the rules are the same or are they different? guess it is good to be the moderator..
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 09:13 AM
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Whoever says that downshifting is cheating is out of their minds! What do you expect to do? Keep your car in a higher gear where you get crappy acceleration until the revs build up. Give me a break.
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 09:31 AM
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Originally posted by DA-MAX
he would have been even more ****ed if he was driving a 3spd neon!
Thats messed up. I had a 3spd neon for a week and a half.

i raced a Z06 and a SEL 500 benz, beat them both on franny lew, but that was in and out of traffic with manually shifting.

they couldnt get passed me
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 09:52 AM
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that guy needs to take a bite of my stick.... ha ha ha...i havew no idea how he got the conecpt of cheating..but he needs a foot in the mouth.
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 10:58 AM
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what a dummy

as if automatics don't downshift..

either way
he's an idiot
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 11:14 AM
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if a someone said that at a maxima meet...id...be laffing on the floor..and id take his car
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 02:05 PM
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lol, well at least in the end he admited he made an *** of himself...
"I used the wrong word when I said cheating..."

This is the best excuse I've ever heard for getting spanked in a race
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 02:16 PM
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aww man
that was a good laugh..
thats what happens when ur brain's the size of a pea
Old Oct 5, 2002 | 02:23 PM
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Old Oct 5, 2002 | 02:42 PM
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Old Oct 5, 2002 | 03:08 PM
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I thought that was kind of stupid when he said downshifting is cheating, that's why I had to find out what his reasoning is. Anyways, it pretty much was proved he didn't know what the hell he was talking about from the beginning. I figured that out and left it alone after that. No sense trying to explain it to him.
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