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Idea for a New Class (Street Racing)

wickedstangs

wickedstangs

Chula Vista, CA
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Everyone knows about street racing, and about the downsides of legal punishment and possibly dangerous consequences for both drivers and spectators. A race track in Detroit at Milan Dragway started this neat and new trend. They invited all street racers to the attend.

Illegal Street racers took the place by storm, coming in the thousands on a cool August Saturday night. The track management opened the gates and turned on the lights, and let them run in a "barely legal" clash of street renegades, and they called it the "No ET Nationals".

All night... til almost 2 in the morning these street racers put their stuff on the track- hour after hour of big money grudge races, without the law breathing down their necks. They wisely made use of a quality facility with concrete guardwalls instead of human guardrails, and a quality racing surface compared to some backstreet with potholes. These street racers are used to a guy dropping his arms to start the race, and many did just that and ignored the "christmas tree". Muscle cars with monster big blocks on nitrous, turbocharged cafe racers, and even cycle vs. car matchups kept the crowd right at the guard wall right next to the action !!!

I remember back in the days when there were streets like daggot/Otay/MiraMesa Blvd and there were hundreds of cars... You will be able to call out who ever you want to race..

What do you guys think? I am going to be starting a new trend here in the SoCal called "Keep it Track".. Except instead of charging Racer so much money to race we charge the spectators:) Racers already spend lots of money on there cars... :questionmark:
 
atlblue98gt

atlblue98gt

Greer, SC
just charge $10 to get in rather you race or spectate. Our local track charges $7 to gi in regardless if you race or watch. And its 1/8th mile. Just have to have helmet to race. Sounds like a good idea though. Idk see how you'll be able to race till wee hours of the morning, like 2 am, though.
 
yosemiddysam

yosemiddysam

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I think it is an awesome idea but I think Race legal will fight you tooth and nail seeing as that is "thier" idea of what they do. It would be awesome if you could pull it off though.
 
Ford1288

Ford1288

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Yeah I think its taking Racelegal's thunder. Im definately down for something or trying to work with racelegal. A problem is getting people to drive out of San Diego. Unless there is a track in San Diego that I dont know of other than the Q. Another is getting the word out about it. Big project but we could all try and make it work.
 
beejay31000

beejay31000

BULLWINKLE
atlblue98gt said:
just charge $10 to get in rather you race or spectate. Our local track charges $7 to gi in regardless if you race or watch. And its 1/8th mile. Just have to have helmet to race. Sounds like a good idea though. Idk see how you'll be able to race till wee hours of the morning, like 2 am, though.
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man thats cheap. i cant wait to get over to the east coast.
 
spdpilot

spdpilot

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What a great idea!

I think the idea behind it is to recreate the whole street racing environment without the danger.

I use to street race heavily until the crack down by the law.

But now, I think once you start racing on the track in little more professional manner, you end liking the track much better.

I see where you are headed with this Emilio and think you are on the right track (no punn intended). More competition and participation.

I think you will have a hard time getting a track to get involved and relax the rules and the amount of money they get from each racer.

I say dress it up like almost a charity event where WickedStangs is trying to get racers off the street. Get the track to donate by allowing racers to pay only $10, get a helmet company to donate the use of about 20 helmets for free use where racers just trade them in after each race. Then do arm drop racing with no times. If you can't get all of them to donate, you do a charity drive or get a major sponsor to donate money and pay for the track time and helmets.

Race legal has some major flaws, which is why it is dieing. They are milking the whole thing. But if you approached it as a twice a year thing, you could get backing on it.

I have had this idea recently along the same lines. But I was trying to figure out how to hold "ROLL" races for the street racers. Since highway racing has become so popular these days. Kind of like what they are doing at the Texas Mile. I was trying to find a stretch of highway the city might allow to be shut down and an event held. But that was pie in the sky maybe.
 
Xodus989

Xodus989

Well-Known Member
spdpilot said:
What a great idea!

I think the idea behind it is to recreate the whole street racing environment without the danger.

I use to street race heavily until the crack down by the law.

But now, I think once you start racing on the track in little more professional manner, you end liking the track much better.

I see where you are headed with this Emilio and think you are on the right track (no punn intended). More competition and participation.

I think you will have a hard time getting a track to get involved and relax the rules and the amount of money they get from each racer.

I say dress it up like almost a charity event where WickedStangs is trying to get racers off the street. Get the track to donate by allowing racers to pay only $10, get a helmet company to donate the use of about 20 helmets for free use where racers just trade them in after each race. Then do arm drop racing with no times. If you can't get all of them to donate, you do a charity drive or get a major sponsor to donate money and pay for the track time and helmets.

Race legal has some major flaws, which is why it is dieing. They are milking the whole thing. But if you approached it as a twice a year thing, you could get backing on it.

I have had this idea recently along the same lines. But I was trying to figure out how to hold "ROLL" races for the street racers. Since highway racing has become so popular these days. Kind of like what they are doing at the Texas Mile. I was trying to find a stretch of highway the city might allow to be shut down and an event held. But that was pie in the sky maybe.
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They could shut down one side of the 905 at night...
 
Gibs

Gibs

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Staff member
Global Moderator
Street Racing FTL!!!!!!

Arm drop is cool, but nobody needs to be right up on the walls and such....
 
spdpilot

spdpilot

Well-Known Member
sdsubzero4 said:
Good Luck!

CHP hates shutting down any freeway even for an accident. Even if that means having traffic drive on the shoulders.
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Thats what politicians are for. You get one of them to buy in and then the word comes down to the CHP to make it happen. CHP would be unapproachable directly on the idea anyways.

Besides....it was just an idea. I kind of thing Emilios idea is better.
 
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