Whenever I go home from Bristol to Wales, I have to go over the Severn Bridge. The toll booths lead to a legendary 1/4 mile/0-100 stretch of road before the lanes merge into motorway. The tactic is just to get the best possible start - and see whats going for it, rather than to wait and see whos off the same time as you (there are ten lanes!!).
To the point anyway...
I was booting it out of the booths and could see a TT and a Volvo S60 (theyre all turbos) both going for it. To their obvious surprise, I caned both of them!! They had both been eyeing each other, but then their eyes turned to me as I whipped past!
I didnt get a good look at either car as it all happened so quickly I guess from the margin that I beat them both that it would have been a 180bhp (single tail pipe) TT, rather than a 225bhp version - and probably a regular 2.0 Turbo S60 rather than the T5.
So the 180bhp TT is easy work for a 172 anyway...I raced a Mk1 172 off the same tolls a few months back and we were totally, totally neck and neck to 100 - where I think we both gave up and went to a normal speed again.