Street races

[fastivaB6TG25MR]

Very special cars...

if my car was my kid it would bring home some special Olympic gold for sure

[BUSTIVA]

I miss the Autobahn. I used to live outside of Dortmund.

[Flyin4stroke]

[Uhuzit]

I think all Festys, Prides or 121s are a big show. Not only with big engines.

Very special cars...

[Grey Vw]

Big show with your v6 turbo. Hehe...

On the contrary, big show with your F2T.

[Uhuzit]

Big show with your v6 turbo. Hehe...

[Damkid]

^^ I would LOVE to drive on the autobahn!!!

[Uhuzit]

Please travel to germany. Drive your car on a german no-limit heavy traffic "Autobahn" and have fun. Street racing around the clock. Especially those Audi-BMW-Porscha fanboys will give you run for the money. No safety-distance at 200 Km/h and up. And I mean you can drive WOT along as there is no speedlimit(rarely).

Dangerous streetracing par excellence.


BUT: two younger guys in their VW Corrado VR6 Turbo and Opel Astra GSI Turbo made a little "streetracing" outside the big city in an industrial area with aprox. a mile lenght with absolutely no traffic or people on the street (a rabbit is the only viewer of this "race"). One off the guys crashed in a street lamp, because a tire explodes.

Dude! Big news! Two young "criminals" and their dangerous cars. huhuuuuuuuuu.

On the other side, on german "Autobahn" there is not a single day without dead people.

And no one cares.

Weird world.

[Advancedynamix]

I love how every street racing topic turns into a big deal....

That's why most veterans of this topic just call it performance driving. Having been involved in both sanctioned racing of many different types and spirited street driving of a competitive nature for most of my life I can say one thing. There are two different types of people, those who have a passion for driving and those who don't. The two will often disagree about the proper use of vehicles and roadways. Those who don't understand why street racers are safer drivers than soccer moms or teenage girls ( in general, not always), should read the statistics and get to know racers a little better. Those with a passion for driving take driving seriously, are more alert and know how to avoid accidents better than the usual commuter. Driving, to many, is a lifestyle and an artform. If proper driving instruction were available to every person who has this passion, and this passion was nurtured rather than discouraged, the roads of our countries would be much safer. Discouraging passion only leads to frustration, frustration is not safe.

[Damkid]

I love how every street racing topic turns into a big deal....

[Christ]

In 2 years of street racing, my net profit was about $60k... and by "street" racing, I mean racing in a generally unused/uninhabited part of town that we essentially had to break into in order to race. Sure there were tracks, but the tracks didn't allow betting, etc... and they were so far away.

I finally got caught after I sold all my quick cars and "stopped racing". I ended up getting a SR charge in PA just outside of Wyalusing PA because I passed someone on the way out of town and he floored it, so I returned the favor.

I had no real reason to stop, even my Civic at that point could easily outrun any standard Interceptor, but for some reason, I stopped.

The end result was about $1100 in fines and 2.75 years with no license, which didn't stop me from driving in the least.

I don't own anything fast anymore, and my past is part of the reason I'm so lazy when it comes to working on cars... I used to be awake for days on end just building the bottom end of an engine, installing and removing and shimming and reinstalling bearings 100 times to get the wear pattern perfect, but I just don't want to get back into that life. There are still times I spend 2-3 days working on something almost non-stop, but that's usually either a bike, or when I'm doing something for a friend.

Every engine in every car I sold is still running today, some 8 years later. And every one of them was a "backyard" build.

[Grey Vw]

You all act like we take our cars and blast down heavy traffic. Each party knows what they are getting in too and we take no passengers.

Tell me what is so dangerous about going WOT down an empty highway for 10 seconds? " Oh no! better watch out for those kids crossing the highway in middle of the night"


And here. This is the closest thing there has been to a death related to street racing. Didn't die from street racing, died by running from the cops. 7th street is where all the street races happen. Empty industrial road, i've never actually been there.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...bay&id=8777525

[fastivaB6TG25MR]

I'm confused by this statement. I've had my share of accidents, and for most of them, I can think of things I could have done to avoid the situation, but one I had in 2004 with a blazer, where a woman ran a stop sign and ran into me. Her 35mph, my 55, making it a 90mph crash, was completely unprovoked or caused by me at all, the police report reflects that. I do not know how I could have prevented the situation, aside from just not being there, but I had to get home.

if the lady would have stopped at the stop sign the accident would have been prevented.

edit: you all have a good night im gonna go street racing... ill post videos later

[LoneManWolf]

Street racing is on par with drunk driving for stupidity in my opinion. If you want to spend countless hours and dollars fixing up a machine then to only cheap out and not spend the money to goto a track to race it... well that's pretty stupid too. I won't go so far as to say i'd like to see someone burned or crippled in a wreck. I'd rather just see their car spontaneously combust in an area and time when noone other than the car would get hurt.

[zoom zoom]

all accidents are preventable.

I'm confused by this statement. I've had my share of accidents, and for most of them, I can think of things I could have done to avoid the situation, but one I had in 2004 with a blazer, where a woman ran a stop sign and ran into me. Her 35mph, my 55, making it a 90mph crash, was completely unprovoked or caused by me at all, the police report reflects that. I do not know how I could have prevented the situation, aside from just not being there, but I had to get home.