Highlights of the day...
On the way to krishnagiri:
1) Rudra sir's optra with the spanking new alloys on bridgestone potenza's(205/55, r15)...bbbeeeautifullly shimmering in the morning rays!!!
2) Amitoj on his zen(fresh out of Psycho's workshop)...even before we started from the start point and warming our engines...Amitoj scrammed like we were chasing to catch and kill him... heheeee... guess he just wanted to DRIVE... and drive as fast as possibe and take a lead as there were immediate 4 cars behind him with minimum 1.5l mills...and to my surprise that zen was gone before the heats could start...Though he didnt wait for us to get into the groove im sure he had a ball zipping out...
3) V1p3r and satan...well what to say...they just wanted to check out which of their Balenos could go faster...simple!!! and the best feature was they were just oblivious to 7 other cars existence!!!
4) Harrie and Psycho cruising on harrie's gtx at their own pace but easily keepingup with the rest of us...
5) Chandans blood red getz belting 130's without a hiccup with awesome road hugging ability,,,giving my friend(an old friend accompanying me in my VTEC) serious thoughts as he bought a swift a week back...after lot of head breaking on whether to buy swift or getz!!!
6) Superunknown...trying his best to cruise with all of us in zen but still hesitating to go full blast!!!
7) Some lorry fellow coming from the wrong side towards us while we are spinning 100kmph...luckily for all of us...sensible heads behind wheels......no problemo to just swerve past but with a dirrrty scream at the lorry bugger...
8) Rudra Sir displaying excellent sense of driving...right infront of me...probably tempted to red line but restricting himself till he reached the outskirts of city...Optra with Rudra behind the wheels handling with great panache,,,gripping the road like a military tank...well great to look at from right behind at 110kmph.
9) Finally about my VTEC...the engine just wanting to missile past all the cars from the word go...but me, yeah...holding on wisely right behind optra waiting for optra to be give me a head start to missile mania...
10) At the toll gate( every one arount my VTEC),,,baleno boys scrutinising my VTEC mill, Shan2nu oozing this expertise on a VTEC and clearing any doubts about VTEC's natural engine rattle visible when the hood is up...
11) Breakfast at krishnagiri...Psycho not revealing to anybody what he had done to Amitoj's zen(the zen just didnt wanna stay with us)...despite of nudging or pleading!!! Almost all of us having a good look at optra's mill...well,,,holden poise to the engine...well arranged with neat spacing. Then, me and other couple of guys checking optra's sound system...pretty impressive actualy...Blaupunkt after all...Not to forget Rudra's pronunciation of Blaupunkt.." BLOUPUNT"!!!
On the way back from krishnagiri
1) Well with all the engines perfectly heated for the back drag..."HELL BREAKS LOOSE...!!!!!!
2) Everone this time starting almost together...redlining starts...This time I decided to give every one a little treat by showing what a VTEC is capable of...First, me overtaking optra on 5th gear at 165kmph resulting in Rudra sir asking me "dont you use over drive"?? and me promptly saying Im on overdrive most of the time...truthful though...
3) Again, baleno vs baleno starts...both v1p3r and Satan goin full blooded touching 140's...and feeling good...till me spearheading past them at 130...surprisingly!!! baleno speedo error I guess... This time shan2nu beside me in the VTEC quenching his part of VTEC thirst, all doubts cleared in our mind about the baleno speedo errors. Then, when both balenos going full blast and me overtaking them woth relative ease resulted in Satan expressing his anguish " YOUR VTEC GOES FAST MAN"!!! Then shan2nu modestly replies on behalf of me "Who said no"???
4) Well, overtaking after overtaking...this time optra acting passive, landing last at the Dakshin Honda point. Discussions galore desiding on where to grab grub at the same time couple of us not knowing that Chandan had 24kingfisher cans in cold store in his car cursing him on not letting us know that he did...which we regretted not finishing even before we headed back from Krishnagiri...
5) All of heading to RTO dhaba for beer, roti and butter chicken...With Satan, Amitoj and Satan splitting from us I donno how many of us ended at the dhaba but we were all but them...hichic!!!
6) Psycho again gives us lotz of racing gyan...awesome knowledge about finer facts of racing!!!experience I guess. Then, v1p3r gives us a little insight on the motor videos he had recently seen...fun stuff! Thanks to Chandan for the beer as it wouldve been possible to get liquor on that day due to gandhi jayanti.Thanks again.
7) After having a fairly good lunch, all of us decided to get back to the reality of life..I mean work, commitments and related...
8) I head home on my VTEC...head held high, pretty pleased with the way she carried herself and more...
Well, another day of divine bliss...only fuelling me for another TBHP meet. Thanks TBHP.