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Street Racing is ILLEGAL and Dangerous i don't think this topic has been addressed on this forum yet so i might as well start it =)

there are 2 types of STREET RACING

Redlight Street Racing
and Organized Street Racing

Redlight Street Racing occurs when 2 racers line up at a red light and launch on green which makes the traffic light as a "Christmas Tree"
This is the most dangerous type of racing because it occurs on populated streets, weither it is deserted or not there are possible dangers. This is what the mass media focus's on since this has been the most leading cause of death in the Street Racing scene. This is the side that the media, the public, and most wannabe posers, ricerboys know.

Why Redlight Street Racing is Dangerous compared to Organized Racing
a) Most roads, doesn't matter where you are, or what time it is, will ALWAYS have people using it. The chances of a car turning infront of you is far greater and it is usually Residential areas.
b) Since there is more traffic on these roads, the traffic lights aren't very far away from each other. you don't usually get your 1/4 mile out of redlight racing. Which leads to sudden braking and more racing occurs after the Red Light.
c) Police, polices usually roam the streets at night since most criminals like the cover of night to hide their identties in the darkness.. there for Police patrol during the night. There is a higher chance of Police catching those that REDLIGHT Race then Organized.

not well covered but you get the overall idea

Organized racing on the other hand is alot differnt but is still illegal and dangerious

Organized racing is when a group of people meet at a location lets say a coffee shop.. they make the arangements of who's going to run, where they are gonna run, and how to get there. Groups are often broken into little packs... if there are 10 people... the group will be split into 2 or 3 groups.. both will take a seperate way of getting to the aggreed location. This will elude anyone or any groups of following the racers to their spot. Often if followers are detected, they usually head back to the Coffee shop, or to another location to lure them away. usually these races often occur early in the mournings in industrial areas.
On weekends, most factories and warehouses are closed soo there wont' be any type of traffic along these roads. They are secluded from residential areas, any main streets, and are usualyl checked for police, or spectators or possible problems during a race.

procedure usually used
1 car scouts out in front to check for problems, possible dangers, spectators, and police, once it is clear the group comes in... parked FAR from the street they walk to the starting line.. 2 cars are sent out.. 1 to block the road behind the racers.. and one down the street farther down to call incoming traffic, or police, or for emergancies. the 2 cars line up.. a Flagger prepares, drops his/her hands and the race is off... only 2 or 3 races are done and back to the coffee shop to talk about the races.. usually a couple or races occur cause the possible threat of police hearing the loud cars. During Organized Races, Safety is always first. for the spectators and the drivers,

Street Racing is Illegal, And VERY DANGEROUS.. and i'm sure that HMT.COM does not encourage it, but Legal Track Racing.

this is all from experiance, and during these races, no money is ever waged, and these races are only for bragging rights and for fun. usually we race with people we know, and not anyone that we don't know.

i got other stuff too but hey =) if you want more info gimmie a email at bun-knee@rogers.com .. i am just a fan.. my car is too slow and i would never acually race.. i've got lots of stories =) running away from the cops.. talking to cops, losing ricers that follow, scouting, =) it's fun to watch.. but to race... i'll go to the Track for that

DO NOT REDLIGHT STREET RACE... IT IS DANGERIOUS AND PLEASE DON"T DO IT.. FOR YOUR SAFETY AND FOR THOSE AROUND YOU.. THANX =)

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what the point of this thread? :-\

hahaha you have never been to the Street Races in Everett, WA have you?? HAHAHA oh ---- its not even close to that here. btw i havent gone in a long time, but i hear its only gotten worse...

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heh, I am apart of a pretty large group of illegal "Organized Street Racing" in Wash.. www.racelab.org
we normally race at places you have mentioned... We have been racing on "offdays" such as tuesdays and thursday nights, in the middle of ------- nowhere. So far it has worked out pretty well. I have been to a few of the races, and we have had good turn outs. Most of the people their are not the dumbfucks who are burning out in the "coffee shop parking lots" etc..

As far as stop light racing.. ya I have done it, we all do it. Its dumb, but I hate loosing. I am a pretty cautious driver and know the limits of my car.

Jeff

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street racing almost got me killed, and i almost killed my best friend at the same time. God was looking down on us then. if josh(my roomie and best friend)would have died, i dont know what i would have done. it just doesnt pay. stupidest moment of my short life. i plan on never ever making that mistake again. it was pretty much my first street race ever. i should have known better, actually, i did know better, but i didnt follow my gut instinct to stop accelerating when the turn came. dont street race, you'll thank yourself later. the momentary rush isnt worth your car, someone elses car, or ANYONE"S life. someone else's life isnt something you can take into your own hands.

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i call em night drags and they are perfectly fine, unlike red light racing. or point a to point B.

usually have like 400 cars in the summer at the night drags here. but since the cops are allowed to take your license on the spot and impound your car, its slow down ALOT

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dont even try to stop street racing it will never happen...either organized or just at a light people will always want to race, including me.....just be careful

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no one can stop street racing, idiots just need to think when they race, like the idiot that almost ran me off the road doing a ricer-fly by last night trying to kick my zc's ass with is old lx 4 door. i'm gonna shut up now though, its bed time

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i agree, stupid people shouldnt race. i can tell this thread is gonna get outta control

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i only race at spotlights. but only to a reasonable mph... like 60... never got in trouble or crashed, but i have ran from the cops (and got away.. booyah big block 396) about 5 times...

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Jeff, i'd be a bit "anonymous" about racing groups and stuff on messageboards...

Most police, or government agencies monitor any type of Street Racing or even Car modification Forums to try and get information

i stoppped by my old haunting grounds last week =) my friends still there.. and if the race isn't worth it... we wont' go anywhere..

last year was awesome.. we didn't get any snow in toronto till maybe early march.. so we stood outside in the cold since april 2001 till march 2002 =) well summer wasn't cold but that was 1 LONG racing season=)

we had special codes to places we would go like, Hong Kong, or metro, or mid west and etc etc... soo we can talk about it around people and have they not know where it is...

yeah weekdays are cool... late at nite there isn't anyone.. and those industrial streets are baron! but most people work or have school soo friday - sunday is when we do it =)

lucky we all have FRS and a Police scanner.. we are ALWAYS looking out for police and ALWAYS concerned about the safety of others =)

big groups are soo easy to catch.. smaller ones are harder =) and + big groups always have those idiots pumping their subs or doing burn outs or hitting VTEC in reverse or something...

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Everyone HAS to admit that sitting at a stoplight will get your heart pounding... I think the people causing the problems are the ones with those HUGE SUV type vehicles plowing into the back of people. I had one massive chevvy something come flying up behind me and almost ran me off the road. Normally, I'll follow people like that to their house, and report them.

btw, have you seen the way THEY take off at street lights? Here in New Bern, NC people think they are just it... everyone has a SUV. So stupid.

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Funny Mistu. actully monitors the Stealth/3000gt message board so they know who to turn down for warrenty claims. It sounds crazy, but there is PHYSICAL PROOF of it !! I would think that the police would stoop to the same level to get money from people ( I've paid almost $4K in tickets, fines, and court stuff, in my 4 years of driving ). most tickets are to keep the money machine flowing at the court house..

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im with random-strike, keep it to a sane speed. but i dont get many races in my car :'( think everyone thinks its stock...

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the popo are a damn terrorist organization, except there only cause is money. There are a few good cops out there but alot of them just want to harass people, like me. As for street racing, I've participated in several stoplight races, I had no chance in any of them since I had a weak ass slippy clutch at the time and my 4g dx hatch is stock right now. I've blown away an infinity from a stop light with my new clutch, but he wasn't trying. My brother got arrested street racing, on an abandoned street, I hate the ------- cops, caused my family about $1000 in bail, fees, and impound charges, and gave my mom alot of stress, which is why I can't ever get caught.

Random stories from me:
I was talking to a bad-ass on a gixxer, he took off when the light turned green, I floored to 55 (in a 35), I saw lights behind me, I pulled over, the cop chased that guy, he ran, 2 more cops followed, hella fun night. I was in my friend's van and we got pulled over after we left a pasta party, we had been attempting to steal signs, playing 4-play, and ding dong ditching, the cop questioned about the knock and runs, we denied, he took all our info and gave threats, we went home, hella fun night. It's pretty damn sad that I'm 16 and that's all I've done, yet my 20 year old brother has been arrested 3 times that I know of and has 2 warrents for his arrest, oh well, I have fun.

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thats something to be proud of lol

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It's something to brag about, that's more than I've got, which is why I'm here, so I can turbo my biatch and make it pimpin' fast, so when those bastards say: "I'm the student body president" or "I'm the quarter back" I can say: wanna race, biatch.

oh yes, and as for the coffee shop reference: I have no coffee shop, but my friends aunt is going to make one, then we'll party there.

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i'm a star baseball player and i'll race you :P

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how old are you, where you at? the beauty of my situation is that I go to LCHS, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, not very many people have a good combo of school standing and racing ability, some do, but none care for Hondaz. hella lot of 4x4s around here, I heard this city was rated 3rd for off roading.

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oh man

random story:

one day we meet up at a local spot... of coarse standing around our cars trying to get some runs to go.... nothing's going to happen sooo we head out to one of those baited out hotter then those chicks shortyz posted... of coarse us being the smart ones... we mark on the opposite street parallel to the street where they are all at... we jump the wall and climb down and walk to the street...

we see a few races... and then all of a sudden 2 black yukons pull out block the road, and cop cars swarm in with loud speaker on " PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE THIS IS AN ILLEGAL GATHER AND YOU WILL BE INSPECTED " everyone runs to their cars, we run to ours lucky we were on the OTHER side =) hehehehe we get away free while those guys get inspected on their way out on each ends of the road

we get back at the coffee shop talking about the raid =) sipping our hot coffee ( i can't drink coffee tastes wierd )(but yeah our hot drinks and everyone comes back.... hearing what happend... those that were modified were ticked those stock left

i'll post another storry about Real Racers vs Rice Racers tomorrow... soo far real racers 1 ricers 0 +)

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that's hilarious. there are a hella lot of ricers around here, they lower it, put a fart can and a wing and think it's fast, so they cruize up and down the street in front of my high school all day, the same damn 4 cars.

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i'm 19 i live in oregon

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I have noticed that when a kid in a toyota corolla with a muffler that sounds like a pissed off bumble-bee pulls up next to me at a stoplight, they'll always get beat. But when a nice turbocharged teg or something fast pulls up, they throw up a peace sign and say "meet me at the track". The pieces of the puzzle kinda fall into place if you think about it.

As far as the organized races go, I like to go and watch occasionally, but I don't participate. Simply because I don't want to lose my license again ;)

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ricers like to "beat me" off of stoplights because I'm a kid in a Honda. I was going through an intersection slow as ---- in 3rd and attempted going to 2nd, but I missed or something, and ended up just revving my engine at the nice civic next to me, he just laughed.

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i got 50 hrs of community service, 500 dollar fine, 90 day license suspension and my insurance dropped me for stoplight racing. when they towed my car they fucked up my ground effects too, so i had to get my car repainted. i dont reccomend it to anyone. be smart. i wasnt. glad to say i won though. never squeeze in a public place.

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There are a few things in life you can never stop no matter how ------ hard you try #1) Prostitution #2)substance abuse and yes STREET RACING.. your boo hoo stories or bullshit rants you go off on are merely exersizes in futility. nuff said

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I can't believe I just got a lecture about this crap. Nobody goes to those races anymore except the ricers and cholo's in buick regals with "go raiders" on the back window. It was fun to go, until TEAM APC started showing up. And if there are any cops trying to "scope the scene" from HMT, go ---- yourself. Police are good, but in here to learn how you can bust people? Fake ass Magnum PI

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it only costs $15 to run at a track....

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My Corolla doesn't sound like a pissed-off bumblebee, it idles like the engine was machined from billets of pure teflon and the exhaust sounds like it's gargling into a 5-gallon water bottle. Then, when I give it hell, it kinda buzzes, but not like a super-ricey buzz. And the intake noise is deafening cuz my throttle body is small and I have lots and lots of valves.

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The track is an hour and a half away henry

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Ah street racing is fun, illegal and stupid all in the same patch.

hmmm... my first experience at these organized street races, me and my cousin were crusin through town, goin to the little spots down here lookin for one that was poppin. After about an hour of drivin to one spot to another, we finally found one. Everyone did the super cool parking diagonally backwards n stuff. And it was off the hook. For a good 25 minutes the races were poppin! Turbo's vs. NA, NA civic's vs Supercharged. It was great... until an altima raced a, I think it was either an eclipse or a mustang. And the altima ------' rammed into an innocent pick up passing by, cars got ------ totaled. On top of all that, the altima had a load full of people. I agree with all you folk, when you race, don't race with others. Well that's my story and my short exposure to the racing scene... the first 25 minutes of street racing, will also be my last.

Now I say take it to the track! Best way to go... it may be far, but hey the 10 dollars in gas spent is a whole lot better than getting ass raped in jail or something. Not to mention the grand you spend in fines, and impound and all that other ----.

I know that the scene won't stop, for now, but for those of you doin it, be ------ CAREFUL!!!

Man wait all these racers and suv gas guzzlers burn up all our fuel and we'll all have to drive electric vehicles, we make fun of people running 18's now but in the future when we have to all drive these EV's we'll be happy to hit low 25's ;D

-Murdoc-

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"suv gas guzzlers"

if you buy into that ---- your're a ------- moron.
most if not all, even the biggest SUVS get 20+mpg. most trucks get less gas mileage than that.

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hhey dickwad... you can either to read it or not.... i did not force you to read it... you know that street racing isn't just a municipal problem... it's becomming federal... by reading this site, they have the knowledge to know what is what... HOW THE ---- DO YOU KNOW THAT THEY DON'T READ IT?

no one goes to those races anymore? THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT... because no one goes... they fool you... and those wannabes. The Races are now happening a lot more discreetly.. because no one goes.. they won't get the heat... and keeps jackasses like you away...

where you live is different from where i live or some others but a lot of people can relate to what i've said... now STFU and if you don't have anything nice to say STFU!

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with street racing it varies from place to place. I usto live near STL and the street racing scene was awesome, vipers, vettes, firehawlks, pimped out rx7's and supras, and the fastest dsm cars i have ever seen. now i move near detroit and there is soo much rice!! i cant ------- stand it, i have seen every possible car with a fart can and altezzas. there are some good races too but a lot more rice. either super rice or built v8s .. no nice imports.. bullshit

the only time i stoplight race is on the way to real street races when i can stomp a riced out focus in second gear and give up before the speed limit and let him do a flyby and almost get killed. great stuff.

Some people here try racing my friends 5.0 mustang with riced out saturns and grand ams! its so funny, they think an intake and fart exhaust add 100hp, the dude in the saturn was soo sure he was running low 13s and my friend stomped him in a stock mustang that does 15.1.

i cant wait to finish my turbo kit and stomp some v8s.

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actually i honestly havent seen a large suv get over 20...just to let you know. i dont wanna start an argument about it. its just that me and my dad just went suv shoppin...the best one is like a trailblazer and it gets like 19. but its not a true suv...doesnt got a v8 woowoo, haha.

Dane

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why in the world would you be racing a round a turn? whos fault is that that you almost got killed, not street racing, just ignorance.