It's a horsepower race!!!!

[PeterT]

with no roof and no visor I can safely say yes! Thats why I tried to overtake him sure.....so I could breathe lol!!

Haha! Oxegen bottles and a drop down mask like on a plane is ur next mod

What sort of power was the tdp r32 running? What a serious machine...air breaks are an odd looking thing!

[Aidan Hogan]

Haha! Oxegen bottles and a drop down mask like on a plane is ur next mod

What sort of power was the tdp r32 running? What a serious machine...air breaks are an odd looking thing!

i overheard jay saying around 550bhp iirc ??

[DeaneMsport_180sx]

To be fair and I dont mean this in a bad way,This weekend is the first weekend Ive seen that car actually have grip!
Ennis and Fermoy is had zero pace,For some reason it could actually shift and pull a gap instead of banging and spinning wheels!
Absolute talented angry agressive little fuck of a driver! Would hate to have the be the following car or to have him on my ass in a twin battle!

he is a serious driver in all fairness to him!! and that car is unreal!! it was actually scary when he was following me in our twin battle!! but he was stuck to me like shit on a blanket when he was following!! takes a lot of skill to do that!! and the grip in it is unreal!! when i was following he sunk the shoe and he pulled 3 car lengths on me straight away!! ha

[ian g sr20]

thanks petey, i think i gave off the way wrong impression here!

first off, i have absolutely nothing against the chap, he is a very talented driver well able to stick it to the older lads, and i did genuinly feel gutted for him when he crashed out, it was unfortunate.

however, in terms of "chequebook motorsport" being used, i mean to get an rb26 to 800bhp still costs big big bucks, well out of the range of most drivers and i think it kind of takes away from the fun a little bit imo. For example, an 800bhp car against a 200bhp car is never going to be fair unless on a tight technical track, and at that part your nearly gone past i think pitching the quality of drivers against each other, but at that stage about what the car is capable of.

(at this point i would like to point out i am not a driver, and its not from a drivers point of view, just from a spectators point of view and it was something i overheard a few times over the course of the weekend)

I completely understand what gem etc said about it being hard to drive a car of that power on a slow track, power bands etc, and as i said very good pilot, dont take any of this as being personal!

Apologies again for seeming like a cunt

y do you say that look at the semi pro final paul mc in his 300bhp bmw was al over duane in his 800bhp 180sx, bhp means noting all bout the driver and how the car is set up, duane is a savage driver for his age if he wasnt he woudnt be able to drive that car like he does and follow the lead car like he do.

[tomsheen]

i agree with hoopsbhoy and stonie.. iv been watching dwaine since he started
and seen him in jdm and never mind his age he's well able to drive full stop..

but on the topic of your wallet winning for ya to some extent its true but are'nt
pro's in all motorsports the fellas with the most talent and biggest financial backing

im not saying the most expensive cars will win but at that level money does come
into it as everyone knows

[dR Dan]

Il be the 1st to admit after Ennis and Fermoy i was very unsure about Duane having not really seen him before then... Draggin the e brake to a stand still and bateing her off limiter for the rest of the track aint anythin special which is all i seen until Punch... But he was awesome then...

And yes the blue 86 is 16 valve... 176 horsepower if im not mistakin...

[ae86-connell]

ya lads its 176bhp, gona go 4 more tho, really need it

[PeterT]

ya lads its 176bhp, gona go 4 more tho, really need it

Good Christ! You're a lunatic! Fair feckin play!

[markII-90]

Good Christ! You're a lunatic! Fair feckin play!

x20000000

Loved watchin all his runs, just flat on the power the whole time..

Braaaaaaaaaap

[Bradley_Motorworks]

I actually can not believe some of the comments on this thread,, ye obviously have no idea what ye are talking about!! Duane is a savage pilot, it has nothing to do with his car, yes he has horsepower and a well set up car BUT it's sweet fuck all good to you if you can't steer it!!!! And another thing everyone thinks because you have loads of power it's easy to drive, it's far from it iv driven plenty of high horsepower cars in different forms of Motorsport and your reaction times have to be alot faster,,, it's totally unfair to come on here and say duane done well this weekend because of his car, he done well because he can fucking drive end of!! Pisses me right off seeing this to be honest!! I talked to duane and his dad a couple of times over the weekend and nicer lads you wouldn meet and I hope bullshit comments like in this thread won't discourage duane from coming to future events!!!

I agree...Duane drove as well in that exact same car with 350hp as he does with 700hp.