It starts with loud noises of the engines on the street lights, everyone wants to be the one who is the Best, they want to be the fastest in the city. Races for ¼ of mile, drifting a lot of people looking at the tuned cars. Who wouldn’t to live like that? Everybody watched the Fast & Fourious and want to be like Dominic Torreto or Brian O’Conor. Driving tuned car which has like 500 Horse Power R34 Skyline or Dodge Charger. When he accelerates his front tires doesn’t touch the road (just like this on the picture).
It looks like pure fun, but this goes with a big danger. It’s not just about speed but there is a group of people who starts race without having a tuned car or more often tuned engine without changing tires for one with bigger handling, speed limit or bigger brakes. Amateur racers like this has longer brake distance or risk to skid around a corner what can cause an accident. Against this what people says racers are not young bald hoodies who drives an old BMW, there is more passionats, corporation lemmings or a big companies bosses - who has money to spend on their need for andrenaline.
In Poland it all starts in Marki a small city what is close to Warsaw, there is often a start of a race and where the map of the race is setted. Then drivers goes to S8 road, where the true show starts. On the end of the race are waiting people for the winner. It shouldn’t happen on the streets, but where this people can go ? Professional race tracks cost fortune, but from the other side we can say when somebody can spend money for a car tuning, why can’t he for a race track ? His car doesn’t “smoke” few liters of benzin but over a dozen.
So where is the problem ? Availabity. In Warsaw there is a “Źerań” race track, where was meetings for moto sports fans, but the surface is quite bad and not everyone wants to risk his own car for a domage. There were several situations like in Lublin where the race track was closed, in Poznań there were also plans, but a lot of people stand up for saving this and luckily it survived. Of course Police can fight with street races, can take drive licences or give high mandates, but will it stop them? I don’t think so.
Questions
What do you think about street racings?
What’s your ideas to fight with it?
Will the race track solve the problem?
Would you like to be a part of illegal street racing community?
Sources:
http://www.lublin112.pl/likwidacja-toru-lublin-przesadzona-wkrotce-zginie-pod-warstwa-ziemi-zdjecia/
http://natemat.pl/56797,szybcy-i-wsciekli-nielegalne-uliczne-wyscigi-ogromna-adrenalina-duze-niebezpieczenstwo-oblawy-policji
Comments
I don;t think that it's something really bad that we have to fight with. Actually we could try to make them more safe for audience and participants.
In my opinion, race track won;t solve the problem, because the adrenaline and risk is a part of it. Like people say - no risk, no fun.
For sure I would like to watch races like the ones from Fast&Furious, but I don't think that I would be the best racer. If only I had a better car... ;)
However, it doesn't make me support such events like street racing, I consider it dangerous not only for viewers, other drivers but also for car drivers themselves. If they want to practise these, they could go to the race track or try gokarts as you said.
Another problem is that it's impossible to make a law in a way which catch all bad or good issues.
If street racings come, I don't know how it is in Marki, but in other places it's not only about bosses or another rich men. Mostly street racings are organized by young people (of course passionate), who invite their friends. There are a lot of people, who only watch a show.
I know some situations that racings were organized away from civilization and there were only interested people. So it was impossible to hurt "innocent" people.
I don't want to say if it's good or bad, but until there are no places to do such things, people will do it on public roads or parkings. Regardless it's legal or not.
In my opinion racing is awesome and I enjoy both games and losed tracks to do it, but I wouldn't try doing this in an open area, simply because I think it is too dangerous for the others.
This is why we need more proper and accessable racing tracks in Poland.
I think the best way to fight it is to build public tracks for this. But that would be only a practical solution for a problem. Because street racing is an underground culture which mostly consists of people who have a higher need for a feeling of freedom and feeling of breaking the rules. They just have such type of personality probably. It’s their drug, the way they enjoy life.
I’d like to join this community someday. Just to explore it and meet new interesting personalities who have a different point of view on the world and want to test their personal limits.
I guess that people are always attracted by things that are a bit illegal. Street racing is one of this things. It is not very easy to organize having races on the track for most young ones, that is why they are looking for a replacement. I think that it would be great if we all could have an easier (also in the financial aspect) access to racing track. I am however not sure if this would stop people from street racing. This is the adrenaline issue I believe.
And if they say that they don't have a race track, they can always find some sponsors or, I don't know, save some money for it. Definitely NOT risk someone else's lives.
I think everybody wanted it :)
I would like to take part in some speed race but on some sports track not on the street.
I don't think that making track will solve the issue some people just like to do things illegal as it gives them chills. :)
Street-racing "like in Fast&Furiuos" is very romantic, but unfortunately it's not so cool in real life. Many people have suffered, because stupid teens want to play "Dominic Torretto". I love speed cars and driving but I think that first the government should control the age of the person who buys the speed car. And after think about the tracks for the normal grown-up people, who take it seriously and with the responsibility.
Street-racing "like in Fast&Furiuos" is very romantic, but unfortunately it's not so cool in real life. Many people have suffered, because stupid teens want to play "Dominic Torretto". I love speed cars and driving but I think that first the government should control the age of the person who buys the speed car. And after think about the tracks for the normal grown-up people, who take it seriously and with the responsibility.
Anyway, I totally see the appeal, but there's a reason driving as fast as possible on city roads is a no-no.