I hate seeing this excuse. Too much of a hassle then you get a ticket or worse jail time. So it's more worth it to get jail time, a record, and maybe an impound of your car which will cost you more than going to a track. Some of you guys have some weird thinking.

And keeping it safe on the street can only happen if you know with 100% (not 99.99%) assurance that nothing will ever happen. Yes accidents can happen on a closed course, but you have emergency personnel ready to help you within a couple of minutes, whereas on the street everyone scatters and no one will try to help - as they will be afraid of being caught themselves.

There are too many variables when you street race. At the track all those variables (people on the track, a newbie pulling out infront of you, no flaggers) are gone and the only thing you have to worry about is racing.