So my friend at work (sprint) has an 05 STi I convinced him to buy in place of his 04 lightning. He loves the thing and for good reason. He let me drive it and it is well and truly an amazing car.
So I took the woman's redline to work today and proceeded to tell him that I was down for a race. Now we both knew he would smoke me. But he just got done blasting the hell outta our friend Aslam's 04 RSX-S and he started talking shit
So I just shut my mouth and laid out the terms - 40mph roll till we're satisfied. I didn't want to go much beyond 90. 3rd honk of the horn.
So we go out to 81, past the area where there's a "double fine" for speeding and drop it to 40mph. There was no traffic for miles. He let me get a little jump not sure how much but at LEAST 1.5 cars becuase he knew he'd catch me (he told me this later, I just knew I got a good jump and he'd be coming hard). So we took it up through 2nd, 3rd and a bit through 4th before he finally passed. He was pulling pretty hard but I was satisfied I held him off until 115mph.
We backed off and that was it for the night. I followed him on some back roads assuming he wanted me to follow. Turned out he was taking an alternate route home. He started taking some corners on a road I had never driven on (at night) and I simply didn't have the balls to try and keep up. That thing was making 25mph right angle turns at ABSURD speeds. I was absolutely amazed and watched in awe.
I caught him at another light and he got out smiling. I told him I didn't want to wreck it tonight so I didn't follow him hard on the corners. He told me that he gave me the jump expecting to catch me but that my car was so fast he was surprised that it took him as long as he did. He then said "that's one quick little car!" (comical given the ION seems massive compared to that tiny STi). We then parted ways. I'll talk with him at work tomorrow but it was alot of fun.