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Mr. 001 (Racer_001)
Junior Member
Username: Racer_001
Post Number: 63
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 29, 2002 - 1:44 am: | |
Any open road. But I hardly have a Ferrari. (though I did see a nice Dino for sale :D ) |
Tim N (Timn88)
Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 596
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 29, 2002 - 1:05 am: | |
lucky bastard...
one day i will do that too (i hope) |
Dave (Maranelloman)
Junior Member
Username: Maranelloman
Post Number: 76
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 9:04 pm: | |
Ross, you're a real wanker...but you're right! Italy is marvelous driving, as is rural France. |
Mike's 1991 RED 348TS (Ts_348)
New member
Username: Ts_348
Post Number: 21
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 8:24 pm: | |
i had my 348 up to 135mph on 294N in chicago try to keep up to my son in his camaro |
ross koller (Ross)
New member
Username: Ross
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2002 - 11:20 am: | |
sorry all you guys are stuck in the good ol usa. great place to live (or hail from as i do) but not so great for ferrari driving. best place is still italy. (better even than germany since those speed limitless highways are crowded now). picked up my 512tr in rome about 2 years ago, and drove it back to london over that weekend. after getting accustomed to the car i started to push it more and more, until on a lonely downhill stretch in the po valley around 1:30 pm (nobody on the road - everybody home eating pasta and watching soccer !), got it up to 200 mph on the clock, but ran out of road pretty quickly. have experienced these lonely roads in italy quite a few times in other cars as well (bmw m5, porsche turbos), so i don't think that was an isolated occasion.. other great place to let it go is on some of the less traveled highways in france.. very few policemen and hardly anybody there (reims-nancy was the site of another terminal velocity run).
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BretM (Bretm)
Intermediate Member
Username: Bretm
Post Number: 2060
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 6:29 pm: | |
I stick to back roads in the Ringwood area for the most part (northern NJ), country roads can be dangerous, but boy are they fun. In the rain is the best because then even legal speeds can get you sliding, etc.
There's this road up at school (northeastern CT) that is two lanes going in the same direction, it just connects to exits on I-84 running parallel to it. I don't see what purpose it has other than to test top speed. It's like two miles long, there is never any one on it (if they were they could only be going in the same direction anyway), forget about cops, and it is dead head straight and smooth. |
Adam Goldman '86 TR (Icnsltmfg)
Member
Username: Icnsltmfg
Post Number: 279
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 5:23 pm: | |
3:30 in the AM, down Park Ave from the 70's, through the Helmsley blg and around Grand Central Station, through the Park Ave Tunnel to 34 st, across town past MSG & the Post Office to the underground entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, and then blast through with windows open and exhaust roaring, up the Helix to the NJT entrance. No cops (yet Brother-in-Law who is with Port-Auth Police doesn't hurt) is a great ride. Just to hear the roar in the Tunnel is great. Everytime I do it reminds me of the Gumball Rally |
Jack (Gilles27)
New member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 48
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 4:53 pm: | |
John,
It's that eastbound stretch where I-88 splits after the Oak Brook toll booth. You go straight and connect with 290, but if you take the right lanes, you hit 294 south. True confessions-I've only done it in a couple different Porsches, and borrowed ones at that! The Carrera could get humming pretty good, but I don't know if I trust the road surface enough these days. Every spring there's a new bump or dip to rattle you a little. |
Dustin (69912)
New member
Username: 69912
Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 4:45 pm: | |
If you want an awesome place to take a quick, check this out:
www.tailofthedragon.com
However it's probably a little out of the way for most of us. It's about a 4 hour drive for me. |
John J Stecher (Jjstecher)
Junior Member
Username: Jjstecher
Post Number: 95
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 4:25 pm: | |
Jack,
Is this on I90 west of Des Plains? I have noticed that all traffic through there seems to move at a pace of at least 90mph on days it isnt bumper to bumper! |
Jack (Gilles27)
New member
Username: Gilles27
Post Number: 45
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 4:04 pm: | |
Just west of Chicago, there is a section of road just following a toll booth where two lanes veer off and continue a gradual curve for about a half mile. It's never patrolled, there are two lanes and since the turn is gradual, visibility is good. Also, the radius lets you feel the handling while building up a good head of steam. Or, that's what I've heard... |
Ken Thomas (Future328driver)
Junior Member
Username: Future328driver
Post Number: 51
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 1:43 pm: | |
If anybody lives in the Santa Fe/Abq. NM area, I was there a few weeks ago and found a great road.
New Mexico Highway 380 from San Anotnio, NM towards Ruidosa, NM. Long and straight and looks like a great desert road to clear out the valves. Of course, watch out for cops. We got pulled over in a Honda Accord by NM state police (talked our way out of it). |
wm hart (Whart)
Junior Member
Username: Whart
Post Number: 160
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 1:34 pm: | |
There were some amazing 2 lane straightaways south of hearst castle heading back to la, through farmland, with few crossroads. Surfaces were not perfect, but after driving the PCH, these stretches were definitely high speed roads, with good visibility. Also, up along the finger lakes in new york state, and stretches of 17 going up to the finger lakes from the greater nyc area ( the latter subject to cops, however). |
Martin (Miami348ts)
Intermediate Member
Username: Miami348ts
Post Number: 1641
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - 11:24 am: | |
SR 27 from Ft. Lauderdael to Sebring has some awesome long straights and not much traffic. Did 155 MPH there before. |
Nika (Racernika)
Member
Username: Racernika
Post Number: 348
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 25, 2002 - 8:34 am: | |
Our local toll highway - the 407! Always clear!
But do the stretch at posted limit first....then pick it up if no police are present & be careful at dusk/dawn - I've watched foxes take a stroll across the lanes. |
Brian Kennedy (Kennedy)
New member
Username: Kennedy
Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:21 am: | |
Highways with light traffic (heavy is too dangerous; no traffic too risky from instant-on) are good for listening to that wonderful engine...
but for a bit of fun, I look for the nice 6-lane parkways that are designed to wind through some future business park... but very few businesses are there yet. You can safely pick up speed in the center lane and the cops are never around as nobody uses the roads anyway.
Such roads are actually where I test out new cars... and terrify salesmen. ;^)
Brian
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Tim N (Timn88)
Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 579
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:16 am: | |
Country roads are by far the most fun, but can also be the most dangerous. If you make a mistake you can be in the woods or wrap the car around a tree. I figure no one would take a car up to or past its limits on a road like that though. The key is to know the road. Driving fast on a back road you dont know isnt a smart thing to do. I guess industrial parks are fun, but none are around me (u know any kenny?). We just have some back lots at companies that are good for doughnuts and stuff. I have a video of an F355 F1 opening it up in an industrial park and they look suitable for speeding. Onramps are fun though. But anywhere you drive fast u have to be careful, even if you have a detector, they are useless against instant on or laser unless there is traffic in front of you to set it off. |
Frederick Thomas (Fred)
Member
Username: Fred
Post Number: 388
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 11:29 pm: | |
There is a stretch of road where when I am at the the light and it turns green I can flip a U-turn and because of how the lights are times I have a clear road all to myself. I take it up to 120 or 125 but just for a second because I run out of road. Of course every on ramp is a launch pad and then there is an office park I goto every now and then on a sunday for some nice curves. |
Tyler (Bahiaau)
Junior Member
Username: Bahiaau
Post Number: 183
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 11:15 pm: | |
early morning jaunts on lonely turnpikes. |
Scott A. B. Collins (Scott)
New member
Username: Scott
Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 10:56 pm: | |
OK, not the explosive type. We all (I think) agree that street racing is stupid, that blasting through residential neighborhoods is idiocy, and that the best place to explore our car's potential is the track. But track days are few and far between, points on the license hurt, and safety for others is paramount.
So, where do you go to perform a quick "Italian tune up" on you Ferrari? Country road? Industrial park on the weekend? Offramp/onramp? |