Decided before that I was sick of being stuck in the house, and being as it is a lovely day oop north, I decided to have a nice drive out.

As I headed towards the A68 near Hexham, I noticed a blue Corsa, and it turned off and went the same way I did. I was not really going for it, but driving at what I consider to be a normal speed for a NSL road - about 70 mph. He too, was making progress, well, at least as much progress as you can make in a 1.7 diesel corsa (non turbo I gather).

So, up the A68 we go (towards Darlington), and there is a dual carraigeway stretch at the beginning. I just cruised up there and Corsa boy pulls out into the right lane to overtake a 4x4, I do too, and even though I was in 5th, this diesel seems to be struggling a bit up the hill, so before you know it I was close up behind him. He pulls over, and I decide that since he wasnt going that slow, I just pull in behind, as I'm not really out for a race.

Anyway, we keep hitting slower moving traffic and he keeps overtaking the traffic, as do I, when the chance arises. His overtaking at this point was ok, maybe cutting it a little close at times considering what he was in, but nothing too bad.

This continues for many miles, until I reach a particularly steep twisty stretch of the A68, which has a crawler lane. Predictably the Corsa starts to struggle again, so I seized the opportunity to pass, and took him on the right hand lane and despatch him fairly easily.

Soon after that however, the road turns to a single lane road again, and I have to slow down for a 30 zone, so I do. Predictably the Corsa comes racing up behind me at probably 50+ and starts tailgating. I take the opportunity to see who is driving, and its some young lad with sunglasses on, and his wench in the passenger seat. I can tell he obviously did not like being overtaken.

We then come to the next 60 stretch, so I speed up in third, and start leaving him behind again, when I got held up at 45 mph by a guy driving a very good condition mk2 Astra SRI. Again, Corsa boy races up behind me. There is a turning off to the right so the Astra indicates to go right. So what does muppet boy in the Corsa try to do? Yep, thats right, he tries to overtake. Luckily, the guy in the Astra saw what he was up to, and stopped him by pulling into his path. Corsa boy then did an emergency stop and pulled back in behind me.

So, the Astra gets in my way, and I can see the Corsa is ready to try and overtake, but I am in second ready, so I just think "right lets teach this muppet a lesson", so I just floor it in every gear up to about 4th, doing about a ton, and leave him far behind. I begin to ease off back down to about 85, when I came up behind a Vectra which itself was stuck behind a lorry.

It seemed to take Corsa boy about 2 minutes to catch up, but again he appeared in my mirror. So, going up a hill, with only a relatively short stretch of visible straight, personally I would only have attempted an overtake here if I had a SERIOUS amount of power under my right foot. Corsa boy thinks "oh well I've got a run up here" so he pulls out to overtake, gets past me, just gets past the Vectra, but then a car comes the other way and he has to take drastic action, cue the panic from him as the oncoming car slams its brakes on, he does the same, and just manages to squeeze in the gap between the Vectra and lorry.

What an absolute muppet. Because his pride was dented by his brand new Corsa wiesel being overtaken on a bend by a 15 year old Golf, on two occaisions he felt it neccesary to restore his "pride" by trying to overtake, and twice nearly having an accident in the process. Personally, I thought it was hilarious. God knows what his wench thought of it all...

At this point, I just let him go off on his way, and at times, I could see his overtaking was very questionable, he obviously had a very dented ego by this stage as on numerous occaisions he again found himself in the path of an oncoming vehicle.

What is it with people like this? Just because his crappy little car couldnt go up a hill at more than 50 mph, and mine could, he felt it neccesary to risk peoples lives on more than one occaision to prove some kind of point... not sure what that point was, but the only point it proved to me is that young muppets in underpowered corsas think they are damon hill or something... :thumbdwn:

On moral high horse...

Maybe it would have been better not 'toying' with him. Obviously not a good decision maker was he! So hopefully in same situation i would just back off and give him loads of space.

Off moral high horse...

In reality I would've done what you did plus make him look like a t!t as much as possible...

Rest assured he probably got the kicking of his life after his biatch told her meathead of a Dad...

Hehe, the thing is, I genuinely wasnt toying with him at first, I was happy enough to sit and keep my distance provided he could maintain his speed, but he couldnt on the hills and so when I got the chance, when he was in the crawler lane I passed. I still wasnt really looking for a race, it was only after he had raced up behind me in a 30/40 zone and then tried to overtake when someone was trying to go right that I did eventually toy with him

sounds like a gimp

I know, I hate the 1.1 Paxo boys trying to race me, I just let them get on with it and let the torque do the talking

Yep, probably would have done the same myself, especially if he was having trouble within inclines as you say. Similar sort of thing has happened to me on a few occasions.

Thought the newish diesel Corsas had the 1.7 CDTi motor in them though? 100bhp and about 180 lb/ft? Probably similar in performance to the Fabia PD100 then. So you would have thought he wouldn't have been troubled by the hills much :confused: Makes him even more of a driving muppet in my book then if he can't even use the car properly!!

Steve

Nah wardy, it was a "1.7 Di"

to be fair if it was a new car then it would have been a turbo, I dont think there is a non-turbo diesel on the market anymore. Though if I'm wrong I'll take it back lol.

Maybe the reason why he slowed down was to **** you off?

I find most people who drive diesels are muppets D'oh!

Nah wardy, it was a "1.7 Di"

What plate was it on?

Steve

the only diease-ill they do in the brand new corsa's is a1.3cdti

how old was it?

the only diease-ill they do in the brand new corsa's is a1.3cdti

how old was it?

Nope - they also the 1.7CDTi that I mentioned earlier...

Steve

not according to www.vauxhall.co.uk they don't

it could be a mistake though

Typical flipping Vauxhall (not my favourite car maker by a long shot). Does it help if I've been a passenger in one?

Was actually an alright car...

Steve

i think have just stopped using it now as i have definitly seen 1.7cdti corsa's about, not about the Di's though

wasn't the SRi a 1.7CDTi??

its amazing how many folk cant handle getting overtaken, no matter what the car is! they must see it as an attack on them

as if by magic

and no it isn't photochopped :P

It's a great feeling when you pull away in sixth from a little n0b in a corsa/saxo/nova/etc when he is an inch from the back of your car no doubt spooling out every skoda joke ever told, their faces are a picture until they disappear in your rear view mirror

Magic indeed.

Isn't that diesel Corsa a three cylinder also? Slow as dammit.

It's a great feeling when you pull away in sixth from a little n0b in a corsa/saxo/nova/etc when he is an inch from the back of your car no doubt spooling out every skoda joke ever told, their faces are a picture until they disappear in your rear view mirror

where did ur octy nick an extra gear from??

PD 130's are 6 speed

PD 130's are 6 speed

learn a new thing everyday!

Was definitely a 1.7 Di. I was just cruising but it appeared to getting driven to its max the way he was overtaking people.

i learnt to drive in a diesel 1.6 non turbo corsa.

singularly the WORST, SLOWEST, MOST GUTLESS car i have ever had the displeasure of having to drive.

it had a 0-60 time of several days, it was almost dangerous.

agreed, some of these cars can be really difficult to drive in busy roads, they just dont have the pace to keep up :(