well it wasn't that bad. pulled away slowly about 1.5-2.0 car spaces ahead. it also was inching away versus just flat out pulling off. none the less. i could tell that i could never outrun him unless i made some changes to my svx. one of which is a 5 speed. that may even out the race some. from what his friends tell me, that jacka$$ always shifts at the redline. i noticed that the svx shifts at around 4k rpm then drops to around 2.xk. i did go faster once when he misshifted