Illegal Street Racing
Illegal Street racing
Racing is a sport where gearheads build and modify cars and race against each other for fun, bragging rights, money, or even bet their own cars for pinks. But most of it happens on the street. Imagine you’re driving in a fully built LS1 Camaro with twin 67mm turbos, 200 shot nitrous pushing over 1000hp to the wheels. You pull up to the line waiting on your opponent. Seconds later a built 5.0 mustang pulls up next to you ready to race and we all know mustang owners think they are all cool with their overhead cam engines and 20 thousand timing chains. Each revs their engines trying to intimidate each other. Only seconds later the flag drops and you and the mustang blast off the line racing a quarter mile to the finish where the winner will be victorious. However blinded by the passion to win, you fail to realize a car on your right pulling out of a parking lot. Before you have a chance to even think about what to do next, the once dark night is lit up by a magnificent explosion and your life as you knew it was put to an abrupt halt. Who can resist racing another car on the street, especially when you know your car is up for the challenge. If you’ve ever been called up to the challenge you know what I mean, and most likely you would not back down. Street racing is a rising problem amongst teenagers and young adults alike. As much as the government may attempt to control illegal street racing, it is mainly up to you to participate in them to do so legally. Today I will attempt to change your view and/or shed some light on illegal street racing, by explaining the crime, the results, and how it can be done safely and legally with different organized street racing groups. During these street races, innocent bystanders become victims of illegal street racing. According to evostreetracing.org 58% of the fatalities range from ages 15-29 and it is believed that both ages “unborn children to 14” age groups and “15 to 29”age groups would
Racing is a sport where gearheads build and modify cars and race against each other for fun, bragging rights, money, or even bet their own cars for pinks. But most of it happens on the street. Imagine you’re driving in a fully built LS1 Camaro with twin 67mm turbos, 200 shot nitrous pushing over 1000hp to the wheels. You pull up to the line waiting on your opponent. Seconds later a built 5.0 mustang pulls up next to you ready to race and we all know mustang owners think they are all cool with their overhead cam engines and 20 thousand timing chains. Each revs their engines trying to intimidate each other. Only seconds later the flag drops and you and the mustang blast off the line racing a quarter mile to the finish where the winner will be victorious. However blinded by the passion to win, you fail to realize a car on your right pulling out of a parking lot. Before you have a chance to even think about what to do next, the once dark night is lit up by a magnificent explosion and your life as you knew it was put to an abrupt halt. Who can resist racing another car on the street, especially when you know your car is up for the challenge. If you’ve ever been called up to the challenge you know what I mean, and most likely you would not back down. Street racing is a rising problem amongst teenagers and young adults alike. As much as the government may attempt to control illegal street racing, it is mainly up to you to participate in them to do so legally. Today I will attempt to change your view and/or shed some light on illegal street racing, by explaining the crime, the results, and how it can be done safely and legally with different organized street racing groups. During these street races, innocent bystanders become victims of illegal street racing. According to evostreetracing.org 58% of the fatalities range from ages 15-29 and it is believed that both ages “unborn children to 14” age groups and “15 to 29”age groups would