street racing vs. drag racing

[SappySE107]

1. Track, for the proof (time slip), bracket racing (try that on the street and make it fair), cops won't mess with you, and for a lot of the above reasons involving safety. There are autocross clubs and courses as well which improve your skills, not take out pedestrians and property.

2. Never raced much over the speed limit, but when I did it was to either 1)put someone in their place or 2) see what their car could do, like racing a corvette or viper. You know you wont win but you wanna see what it can do.

3. Lost driving priveledge for at least 6 months, and go from there based on neighborhood vs highway. Severity of speed/location could dictate longer suspension, higher fine, impound vehicle. I won't say take their car on the first offense.

[JMo60]

hey johnny ill reply to this one for ya...

1. i prefer the track because of 2 reasons, cops and innocent people.

2. yes i street race, you know that, but when it is gonna be a real 1/4 mile street race you know we have our "spot" as we like to call it. it is an extremely low traffic industrial road that has almost no traffic ever except for a few people lookin to run someone. the only time there is traffic is during work hours with an occasional semi truck.

3. i think the punishment should be based on a judgement call. someone wants to race up to the speed limit and then chill out, they should be let go with a warning. Racing way over the speed limit on a busy street, license taken. If caught racing at higher speeds, but done in a place where there is no traffic or people, then the punishment should be less for people at least trying to be more responsible.


the bad thing about street racing is that it attracts a lot of posers and fast and furious wanna be's. At least at the track you know cars are mostly for real..
and yeah nothing beats good old bracket racing...

[X11_STE]

From "The Great Grandfatherly Figure"

*SNIP*
Had to add: God will only judge you in the end. In the meantime, it's up to Officer John and Judge Judy. God forgives, they don't.

Hey now, I only said "fatherly figure" NOT GGFF. That was brad or ben or someone. Not me.
In the end, God shall judge me. But in the meantime, nothings illegal unless your caught. And so far my records nearly spotless (but not quite).

[Lyle's GTP]

Their was a case here in Edmonton last year. Where two new Corvettes were racing through busy a residential area during daylight hours. One of them lost control and jumped the curb and hit a lady walking on the sidewalk and killed her.

The driver claimed he had an electrical malfunction that caused him to lose control. The judge didn't buy it, and he was found guilty. They are sentencing him tommorrow.

So we will see how "hard" his slap on the wrist will be.

Here is the story.

http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=1e32a602-a2c6-45d3-b23a-ec02e9de3a24

I'll keep you guys posted.

Lyle

[Lyle's GTP]

Here is another artical. I still haven't found out what the sentence was. This one is more of an opinionated rant. But a decent read none-the-less.

http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=1f825d98-0057-4270-8e3f-af46878121a7

Lyle

[Azrael]

1. Generally I say take it to the track. I would streetrace but only under very specific conditions. Things like the next interesection being far ahead and no sidewalks and the street being void of traffic ahead of me. And certianly not in the rain or winter.

2. I have actually only street-raced once fairly recently and I personally knew the other driver. She had a crappy b-day and wanted to have a little fun. Either way I waited until my conditions above were met and stopped when I reached the speed limit.

3. This is a tough question to answer. I believe many varibles pertaining to risk should be factored in. Things like: was it in a densly populated area with pedestrians or an obscure stretch of road with no sidewalks? Like a minor infraction for risking your own neck but something more severe for risking other, uninvolved people.

In the springtime there was a street race here between 3 cars. One slammed into a car trying to turn onto the street and the driver was killed. In this case all of the drivers (including the victim, although no-one dared mention it for weeks) were being stupid. The racers shouldn't have raced on such a busy street and it was the victims responsibility to check for traffic before turning onto the street, especially since this street saw lots of modified cars that time of day and that day of the week.