400 busted for street racing, WTF? so give us a strip!

[Wm Holden]

http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos-08...acing-bust.htm

Just seems that if 400 people will show up to an illegal street race...maybe we could afford to support a real track?

[shank0668]

lol

[CamaroSpike23]

except everyone wants to race but not work for it. that and zoning restrictions and housing booms have shut down tracks everywhere. 3 of my local tracks were shut down because of homeowners who built/moved in long after the tracks had been there, complained about the noise from the tracks.... which then get shut down, and those same people wonder why there is still street racing.

[Wm Holden]

Originally Posted by CamaroSpike23

except everyone wants to race but not work for it. that and zoning restrictions and housing booms have shut down tracks everywhere. 3 of my local tracks were shut down because of homeowners who built/moved in long after the tracks had been there, complained about the noise from the tracks.... which then get shut down, and those same people wonder why there is still street racing.

old people are morons...

[patriotpa]

Originally Posted by Wm Holden

old people are morons...

...tell that to Richard Petty, Enzo Ferrari, Mario Andretti, etc.

You'll be old too, one day.

[skipj3]

Originally Posted by patriotpa

...tell that to Richard Petty, Enzo Ferrari, Mario Andretti, etc.

You'll be old too, one day.

Enzo is dead dude.

[The_Blur]

Originally Posted by CamaroSpike23

except everyone wants to race but not work for it. that and zoning restrictions and housing booms have shut down tracks everywhere. 3 of my local tracks were shut down because of homeowners who built/moved in long after the tracks had been there, complained about the noise from the tracks.... which then get shut down, and those same people wonder why there is still street racing.

It's a safety issue. Street racing is dangerous. I guarantee street racing fatalities would plummet if tracks were readily available.

[skipj3]

Dont tracks have a test and tune night?

[Wm Holden]

Originally Posted by patriotpa

...tell that to Richard Petty, Enzo Ferrari, Mario Andretti, etc.

You'll be old too, one day.

I'm 45...

Originally Posted by The_Blur

It's a safety issue. Street racing is dangerous. I guarantee street racing fatalities would plummet if tracks were readily available.

agreed!

Originally Posted by skipj3

Dont tracks have a test and tune night?

Love to tnt....iT'S WHAT MAKES ME GET OUT OF BED IN THE MORNIN'!

[stovt001]

Agreed. If governments really cared about safety, they would encourage the development of strips and tracks. However, in this world of sound-bite media and knee-jerk, thoughtless voters, politicians would much rather say they solved the issue by arresting 400 people. It makes the jerks who buy houses near drag strips happy and it sounds good when played for 2 seconds on the news without real analysis, in between hour long reports on the state of Spears' underwear and Hilton's views on life.

[MerF]

The same thing happened to the old spot I used to run at back in '05-ish. Luckily I had moved from the area in '04, but I'm not gonna lie that I'd ran my Supra there once or twice. Not my proudest moment but it was the interstate heading away from the base in Norfolk and it was always barren at 1 AM when we'd run.

[DGthe3]

Ah but racing at a track isn't cool. Thats what all those old guys do, with their Camaro's and Mustangs.

[AFSNightrod]

Originally Posted by MerF

The same thing happened to the old spot I used to run at back in '05-ish. Luckily I had moved from the area in '04, but I'm not gonna lie that I'd ran my Supra there once or twice. Not my proudest moment but it was the interstate heading away from the base in Norfolk and it was always barren at 1 AM when we'd run.

I remember the 564 bust. It was early '06. I didn't race there, but I went to the Kroeger where everyone hung out the weekend before it happened. It was my first and last time(not because of the bust) going there. I saw what was going on with the racing and knew that it was going to get busted. The day after I went somebody posted about the VDOT camera spinning around and showing all the cars in the Kroeger parking lot. The cops were in the bushes on the side of the road for three weeks with video cameras and radar guns. They were clocking cars doing in excess of 150mph. When the bust went down they came up all the lanes head on at the people who were racing in a rolling roadblock. From what I recall there were four cars racing with another five out there spectating. All of them were impounded. At the same time they blocked all exits to the Kroeger parking lot, and basically set up an impromptu tech inspection station at one exit that everybody had to go through. The news reports said that over 200 tickets were issued that night for various equipment, inspection, and registration violations. The unfortunate thing, is that the nearest track is about an hour away.
You can't ever stop street racing. As long as there are still cars there will always be people who want to see who is faster. It could be curbed, however, with the addition of more tracks, or at least a sanctioned, closed-off public road that is monitored by the police, with each driver signing a waver, just like a test and tune night at the local drag strip. In the Hollywood Hills the police close roads all the time to film car chases/shows, etc. If a safe, conrtrolled enviornment is provided, then illegal street racing will see a decline. With the zoning restrictions and noise complaints, there really is nothing that can be done other than petitioning the residents in the area and the city for allowance. It's highly unlikely that it will get anywhere, but it's worth a shot. It will also take awareness by both law enforcement agencies and car enthusiasts alike as far as what the local laws are concerning aftermarket modifications. Certain laws(such as exhaust) are writtin so ambiguously that patrolmen have discretion as to what is legal and what is not. If the law won't be rewritten, then police departments should at least establish a standard as to what would warrant the writing of a ticket, and make drivers aware. That way officers can't be giving tickets just because he feels like being a douchebag. Of course all these ideas would work in a perfect world, but the world certainly isn't perfect. It's just a suggestion along with my two cents.

[fbird777]

Thats alot of street racers, I think it would be obvious that 400 people show up in one location every week plus the sound of all those fart cannons going off.