So late last night I pull into a gas station off the feeder road with my GF and notice group of young Indian kids off the side with a newer 12+ graphite grey GTR and a modded old sentra SE-R. I fire up to leave and a guy gets in the GTR and fires her up as well. As I get ready to exit to a red light on the feeder road, I hear him throw a rev at me. I lean over to the GF and ask her if she was in the mood to race these guys; she said let’s do it. I throw a rev back, and one of the 3 other guys yells out “let’s do this, wait there.” In the meanwhile, I put my convertible top up as to not let that slow me down. One kid jumps in the passenger seat of the GTR and the other 2 jump in the Sentra. As he pulls up to me (kid looked like he was 17), I ask him what he has done to that thing (it did not sound stock). He says back “just some exhaust work.” The way he said it, I didn’t believe him. Anyway, I definitely did not want to race him off the line, so I told him lets jump on the highway and he agreed. We get on the highway and he jumps to my left side. I see his passenger has a video camera and is filming. I try to start a little high at 75 mph thinking that would be to my best advantage. So I’m in the meat of 3rd gear waiting for him. Give 3 honks and we are off. I jumped out ½ a car and held it. By the end of 3rd, he is somewhere in my blind spot. I rip a perfect shift into 4th (love my new MGW STS), and I keep my eyes on my HUD. 115, 120, 125 mph, he is still in my blind spot. Then, as we get to 130mph right at the powerband of my 4th gear, I hear that classic GTR grinder exhaust sound suddenly get louder, and he pulls past me the length of his GTR. We both immediately let off at that point and I jumped off the 1st exit.

Looking back at the race, I’m proud of my bolt-on vette to hang with a 12+ GTR with at least exhaust work. If I had ended the run at 130, I would have took the win, but I never expected him to come around on my right at the meat of my 4th gear. I still can’t believe how he did that. I have a new respect for these cars. They are no Evo’s for sure, they have balls even in the triple digits. I hope the passenger post the video one day. It was my 1st "loss" to another car.

 

Good run!

 

interesting

 

awesome run............should have had your girl record it through your or her phone at least.

 

Everyone knows a modded GTR would have no chance against any 600cc sport bike! ha

 

I raced a pre-2012 GTR one time from a dig....I had 4 passengers too lol. It was just for fun because one of my friends sitting in the back saw a GTR roll up and asked him to race just for fun. When the light turned green I floored it, but he pulled a bus length in like 2 seconds lol

 

haha....she was pi**ing her pants in the passenger seat. It would have been the worst video ever. I had my GoPro 3 Black mounted in the dash but I took it down because it was a pain to constantly take down all the time when I had my top down. I'm thinking of putting it back up. I beat 2 cocky dudes in a matte black F430 spider the day before. My GF was laughing how they couldnt even look at us as we both gave them a thumbs up after. Wish I had that on video for you guys.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback.