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When Micheal Schumacher has a bad race do people laugh? No because they get scared knowing he will be coming back with vengeance in the next race.

 

thats a bit different, he has much experience and is not a n00b like me. There is still a chance to die on the track also.

 

I beg to differ. Drinking and Driving is the stupidest thing you can do in your car.

But about the whole controlled enviornment thing, there is a city in Japan (can't remeber the name) that has a street that is closed down from 1am-3am every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night soley for the purpose of street racing.

Similarly, here in Athens....a few friends and myself go to the back of the University Mall (the "big" mall around here) to race at usually 12 midnight. The mall closes at 9, so everybody is long gone. It's a little longer than 1/8 mile. We just set up cones we keep in my friend's truck across the entrances to the back so nobody drives in, and thats where we race.

We started doing this in honor of a friend who was seriously hurt in a racing accident on a public road (read: he's in a wheelchair now).

Besides, i can't afford to be competitive at a legal track. Neither am i saying street racing is a good thing. I know its a bad idea, and there are a lot of shitty drivers out there, but hey, i guess thats why my life isin't worth anything, eh, axemansean? I want that quote from you on my epitaph.

 

not into oncoming traffic though!! What are the statistics of people dying on dragstrips?

 

im not dumb enuf to race wit other drivers (except the one im racing) on the road nor pedestrians, i would find a 4 lane spilit road and race. i jsut found one also behind the expo center with street lights.

 

Japan is different from us; street racing is way larger and much more popular over there than it is here. I can imagine that that city does something like what you have said due to lack of resources to make a more secure place and overflowing amounts of people into it. Besides, a majourity of the Japanese are extremely cautious when they do street race.

 

I'll bring up a point I don't think anyone has touched on. Street racing is dangerous, I don't think it should be legal, but I have been known to put the hammer down at a red light or two. Having said that, there is a good reason that we not only have rules against street racing, but in general very conservative speed limits. The typical American approach to driving is that it is a chore, or something that has to be done to get to work or pick the kids up from school. That's why cup holders and trunk space is more important to Americans than tight suspensions and responsive engines. If you ask a German about driving in America, they laugh. And the Autobahn exists because they take driving the way it should be: a serious exercise in paying attention to all the details of driving a car. Germans have no need to street race, or race anyone period. Because when they need to get it out of their system, they can exercise that feeling of power and control in a responsible manner and a controled environment. If we were permitted to drive our interstates at 130 mph, there'd be fatalities all over the place. But the Autobahn has one of the lowest fatality rates of any national interstate. Why? Because they take it seriously, the cars are built for it, there are stiff fines and penalties for things such as offensive gestures, not wearing your safety belt, and running out of gas, and lane discipline is more important than anything. And the people abide by that because they know that's the only way you can safely travel at such speeds. To do such a thing would take a total rethinking in how American driving habits are, and the infrastructure to support it.

 

ummm, i put "for the most part" for a reason.


god i am so sick of you morons.

 

Blah, Blah.... Blah, blah....blah,blah,blah,blah

OK, real simple stuff here....

1.Street Racing IS illegal and IS STUPID

2. If you have something to proove then proove it in a controlled manor with time slips and the whole 9. That way when you whoop someones ass you have proof and it's not another fish tale from the streets.

3. You may think you are a good driver and have good control and would never wreck.... ok, that's great, you're a good driver but..... what about the 6 million other drivers on the road? Do you think they're all good drivers? What happens when you're racing and you think it's perfectly safe because there are no other cars.... then out of no where that old lady or that mother with her caravan full of kids that didn't see you coming because you're going way too fast, pulls out in front of you and... BOOOOM... in an instant you've changed the lives of so many; friends, family, loved ones, grand parents, grand children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters... so many lives are changed in the blink of an eye because you had to hold your nuts in your hands and proove your manhood... NOT WORTH IT!!!

My motto is if you have something to proove, all right then lets proove it... meet me at the track so I can stomp your shit properly. Otherwise, have a nice day. I know what my car is capable of and I don't have to proove it on the street to feed my ego.

 

very well put