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Andrave that is a good story, but it really doesn't show that street racing is bad. It just shows how much the system sucks!
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true, but the point was that the penalties are friggin strict, and in small towns, you can run from the cops all you want. They will pull up to your HS, your college, the walmart parking lot, and get your tag numbers later, and say they got them while chasing you.
If you don't think I'm telling the truth, that happened to me in HS. A cop caught me speeding and I didn't even realize he was behind me, but apparently he wrote it up as me evading the police. His son went to my HS and told his dad it was my car, so the cop came up during school and wrote down my tags. I SAW him do it, from the window of my geometry class.
The next day he called my mom and had us come down to the courthouse.
I got lucky, he didn't have his radar certificate and he couldn't give me a ticket (and legally had no right to pursue me that night, which my mom went off on him for).
But its ****ty, street racing... I spent my first night at an open track at houston baytown race park last week and saw a lot of cool cars. Guys blew shifts, had bad launches, but they got to run again and again, and you didn't have to run your friend head to head on a busy street. If you were faster, your time showed it. If you had more power, your speed showed it.
I liked it a lot, if i had a track like that nearby, I wouldn't even think of racing. I know for the more rural guys that isn't always an option, but most of the time there are tracks within an hour or two, even in rural areas.
And for racing, no excuses, timeslip versus timeslip, well.. you'll never find that kind of race on the street.
You pay 15 bucks, and don't have to worry about pedestrians, cops, debris in the road, any of that.
And you don't have to listen to Vinn Disel talking about blowing the welds on the intake manifold with nozz or take advice from Ja Rule talking about himself in the third person. You don't have to take **** from anyone, and you don't have to bull****. Your time is there. If your bodykit and carbon fiber wing don't back up a quick timeslip, you don't get respect. If your car is primered and running 11's, well, you are the ****.