Street Race...T.T

[<SSR>David]

raz kaz, in a drag strip it is safer because it is controlled. If you lose control you only hurt yourself, there is less chance of someone else getting hurt for the drivers mistakes. The risk of speeding is not gone but it is somewhat controlled. I do voice my opinions on other subjects but this isn't the place to do it. and what do you mean by you people? also being more alert doesn't mean that the driver can't lose control. I keep comin back to this example but lets say the two cars that were racing the night the mother and the child died went to a drag strip, or maybe they were too far from it thats fine, why couldn't they go race in a deserted business street? Why local streets
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Yes I was once a street racer myself and here is some of the reasons why I did it. I loved to talk sh*t after beating another driver, I loved the feeling I get when I floor the throttle. I like to compete with the car that I worked so hard on. The risk of getting cought, crashing, was always there and it made it much more exciting.

But I can also get the same feelings at the drag strip couldn't I? For thoes people who live way to far to a local drag strip I am not talking to your guys. I understand if you live too far away, but to thoes who live pretty near. Couldn't you guys get the same excitment the same intensity at a drag strip?

On the streets there are people walking and also there are other drivers.
Drag strip, there is just you and your opponent. I'm just trying to understand. As I said before I am not talking to thoes people who live too far from the local drag strips. BTW Is 30 mintues too far?

[CassiesMan]

Everyone says street racing is dangerous...

I street race, and Im still alive.

Dale Erndheart raced on a track, and he died.

Some dude on a motorcycle got his arm blown off on a track race. Never seen that happen on the street.

I think I'll take my risks.

By the way guys, my buddies dad was seriously injured when he fell down a staircase last year. So please guys, dont walk down staircases, I dont think I could stand to think of any of you getting hurt by a stair case accident.

[<SSR>David]

=) very funny. +) I guess you guys feel like I am saying everything is dangerous huh? As I said there is risks everywhere, but isn't there less risk when it is somewhat controlled? o0 bike injuries I have seen many times in the streets. Just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean that there isn't any. And if you want to talk about which one is more dangerous, isn't there more accidents in the streets even without anyone going above 90MPH?

[RACER D12]

[quote=<SSR>David]I keep comin back to this example but lets say the two cars that were racing the night the mother and the child died went to a drag strip, or maybe they were too far from it thats fine, why couldn't they go race in a deserted business street? Why local streets
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We cant answer for them. Most of the people on these boards try to be responsible in when and where they race. However there will always be those few who ruin it for everyone and do stupid things.

[<SSR>David]

I think this thread will turn into another argument thread. I didn't want it to be, but reading the posts that other members have made i feel like it will turn into another one of thoes argument threads. So i will stop it right here. =)

[flatlander757]

It's the idiots who don't really know a whole lot(the ones who don't belong to forums like this) that do stupid stuff.

I want to be an automotive technician so I know I've gotta stop BSing, I've slowly weening myself off of this stuff, I haven't actually raced in the longest time(I think 2-3 months?), but I still occasionally do a burnout or see if the butt-o-meter can verify my 0-60 time. Although the closest drag strip is about an hour away, I'm hoping I can save enough money and afford to go once every couple months.

[TatII]

well not everyone of us races whenever we get the chance too. we too will decide whether or not it's worth it to race. we also use our instincts to feel if its even safe to race at a certain place in the area at a certain time. also most of our races happens late at night with almost no other drivers on the road.

yes theres risk to everything, but i would say people who can't drive for shit is waaay more dangerous on the road then we are. they're always putting people's life in danger when we only do it a few times a year =).

and yes i've been to the track before and its great and all, but the track i go to is 100 miles away. so thats basically 50 dollars round trip for gas, 20 dollars in tolls, 15 dollars entrance fee, and 20 dollars for race gas. the total cost for around 3 runs down the track and waiting in line for 40 minutes at a time? $105. not to mention it takes around 3 hours to get there with traffic and coming back so total i would spend about 10 hours to get there, race and come back. hardly what i call convient at all.

[flip888]

stupid fu*king bullshit!
theres like what, over 11,000 human deaths from mother fu*king guns in america alone each year and mother fu*kers are worried about street racing? what the fu*k controll the guns first then worry about all the terrable mother fu*king ignorant evil fu*king street racers. holy shit.



no im just joking they should do what they want

[Chiquae07]

i feel u on that one TatII. its a bother to go like 40miles to get to the closest track. if i feel safe ill race, otherwise u usually pass up the opertunity to race the guy next to you. generally speaking you do check the surroundings before you race on the street generally...but its just more fun to do it as many times as you want when a nice long strip of buisness street is literally 300 yards from my house. its about 3/8 of a mile.

of course there will be the 16 year old that wants to race everyone in his rusted out old car that runs maybe 18s, 19s tops and can bearly control the damn thing above 60mph. those are the people that ruin it. otherwise, i think that 2 street racers racing down a street is more safe than driving in heavy traffic because when u are driving with another racer, you know what to expect from each person, but in heavy traffic people aren't always paying attention and it isn't easy to read what they are going to do next.

[99redmaxSE-L]

Originally Posted by <SSR>David

I decided not to street race because I felt really bad for the little child who died while walking with her mom late at night. two cars were street racing, and one car lost control and ran over the mother and the daughter. My enjoyment at the streets wasn't worth other people getting killed. Yes you made a good point in saying that driving itself is dangerous, but when you take it to another level and go over 100MPH, thats another story.
~David

first of all when people are doing 100+mph..they are usually on the freeways. and i dont know of many moms and daughters walking across the freeways late at night. and most people here race from light to light (which is lighted up and no person SHOULD be walking acrcoss) or on the freeway. And like stated before they usually always race late at night..you dont find many people who go out in the day time and look for races. so most moms and daughters should be home..in bed..

i guess your kind of talking to the wrong crowd here, everyone here is usually safe...atleast the stories i read about and just about everyone here is 18 or older with some driving experience. while yes there are a few exceptions to the age thing...they dont normally race either

[Raz_Kaz]

I've been in more near-accidents when driving normally, usually caused by the idiot driver either being distracted or was too dumb to knwo the rules of the road. I have never been in a near-accident when racing, so I guess it's "safer" for me to race then not to huh?
How is the speed more controlled on a track? Your still going at the same velocity as the streets. You still have the chance of hitting the other driver, going over the wall and killing a spectator.
Fine, let's take your exmaple for a second. If those 2 drivers would have gone ot the track instead then maybe the daughter and mother would still be alive. Or maybe they would have been killed by a drunk driver, or someone that fell asleep, or they were kidnapped, or robbed and shit.
Do you see what I'm trying to say?

[CassiesMan]

Originally Posted by flip888

stupid fu*king bullshit!
theres like what, over 11,000 human deaths from mother fu*king guns in america alone each year and mother fu*kers are worried about street racing? what the fu*k controll the guns first then worry about all the terrable mother fu*king ignorant evil fu*king street racers. holy shit.



no im just joking they should do what they want

Gun control is using both hands and keeping your eyes on the target.

[street_racer_00]

Originally Posted by CassiesMan

Gun control is using both hands and keeping your eyes on the target.

Spoken like a true Texan

[<SSR>David]

what your sayings are ifs. The two drivers didn't and the mother and daughter is dead. What I ment when I said the speed was more controled was there is less distraction for the driver. The other peoples comments I really respect and apprciate but yours Raz you have been comin to this thread with a really hot head. you do have some good points, but don't come at me like Im trying to kill you or something=) just trying to have a good discussion.

99redmaxSE-L
The mother and daughter was killed because one of the race car driver lost control and went on the sidewalk where the mother and the daughter was walking home. It wasn't on the freeway. Yes I do believe that I was talking to the wrong people =) Everyone seemes to be safe drivers here. safe drivers but hard to talk too. some of the people come at me like they want to bite off my head. +D I just posted this thread here because it was on the street racing section and I wanted to discuss these things with people who regularly race on the streets.

So far the only information that I saw was productive of this thread was that when there is no track close enough, people take it to the streets. I think as time progresses more programs will open up and there will be more organizations that will set up small drag strips. I know in some states there are many organizations that does this every weekend and they are all free. +)

If this does happen will many current street racers go to thoes events?

[Raz_Kaz]

LOL, yes what I said were "if's" and "maybe's". Same thing goes for street racing or anything else.


Point is that something bad could happen no matter what you are doing. And unfortunatly no matter how many bad cases there are, no matter how hard you try to crub the direction of some folks it all comes down to whether or not they want to change.