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Originally Posted by Tcoat
You think street racing is new?
People seem to think it started in the 90s but I am afraid that just isn't the fact.
As soon as there were 2 cars on the road at the same time street racing started. Hell for that matter as soon as there were tow domesticated horses street racing became a thing!
It has always existed and always will I am afraid.
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I love hearing stories of street racing from the 50's and 60's (Hell, F&F was what, 2 decades after American Graffiti?), stories about how a buddy would take the mostly used up bottles of laughing gas from his fathers dentistry practice and toss 'em under the seats of his Chevelle or whatever.
If spraying some little shitbox Honda or VW is a kick in the pants I bet a 400 cubic inch V8 took quite a few lives...
On the affordable track front we're lucky here, $200-$400 gets you 5x 20 minute sessions on some world class tracks, the price seems to correlate to participant maturity and quality of instruction. Agreed that it is not available enough to the people that need it (I'd say advertising and accessibility, not affordability, having a riced out civic parked next to a new Porsche worth $200k after mawds may cause some tension), I know for me, on the way back from a long day running hard the last thing I want to do is zip between traffic.