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Originally Posted by Topless
I am quietly ashamed when I read another "BMW Kill" post at 986 Forum. Street racing is for pimply-faced adolescent males whose nads haven't dropped yet. Sure, I did it when I was a pimply-faced adolescent. I lost a few good friends to it as well and that cured the itch big time.
Something comes over us in a street race and we leave our critical thinking skills behind in the red mist. There is no open public road that is completely safe for racing unless it is blocked off at either end with communication between the participants and the road control. Then it is a controlled surface and no longer a public road. When going 120mph we cannot know every possible circumstance that may arise on an open public road. It's a bad idea whether you are currently willing to acknowledge it or not.
/rant off
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there's.... different levels, of "street racing".
There's the fast and furious movie level, where they're racing between buildings on roads with 30mph speed limits in vehicles that were designed to carry groceries more than they were designed to take corners.
And then there is the empty 70mph speed limit highways in the midwest, where you can see for miles, in a vehicle that was built for the track and designed for speed.