Thread: How Dangerous is Drag racing

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Racing of any form is inherantly dangerous by its very nature and if one would actually read the waiver u must sign to enter a track even as a spectator u would see that the track denies any responsibility for injury or death one might incur at the facility.
The reason this thread should die IS that its not going anywhere but its not going anywhere cause most of the posts are by folk who actually haven't the 1st clue about street racing and or they are trying to post everything in a slant or spin that best supports their view on the subject, nothing at all objective.
Street Racing, with good reason, is illegal. Illegality offers a measure of control that would otherwise not exist. However, most of what the public at large considers to b street racing and street racers actually is niether.
Street racing has existed since the days of horses and chariots and it will exist long after all of us here are dead and gone. Besides, all sanctioned racing is a play on what occured and occurs on the street, not the other way around. If, by some stroke of genious, there was an end to street racing totally there wouldn't b a sanctioned track of any type still open within a year of same; reason being, the only folk who make money at a track are the owners, their employees and those racers who WORK FOR a sponsor and or on a sponsored team operation, everyone else only SPENDS money; including the sponsors themselves; at a track. They SPEND this money as ADVERTISEMENT, in fact its taken out of their advertisement budget. They are advertising by racing on sunday to sell on mon-sat to those folk who seldom if ever race at a track OR the street. Even the auto manufacturers who sponsor race cars do it for this reason. The Army/Military sponsored rides are sponsored as a way of advertising the benifits of a military career, and they themselves are partially sponsored by makers of hgh perf parts and equipment for the same reason as they sponsor other race teams.
Probally the most widely held and expoused myth is that it is somehow safer to race at the track than it can b on the street. It isn't, the diff is at the track u PAY to have someone make u feel as if they have assumed the responsibility for u that u would have to assume for urself on the street, most importantly for most is the responsibility of seeing that u do not let ur mouth overload u and ur rides butt.
The next most widely held and expoused myth about street racing is that street racers are afraid to race at the track cause they are slow. There are many many street racers with STREET CARS that would send any number of so called track only RACE CARS to the pits and or the trailer so quick that quick ain't fast enuff to desbribe the trip.
Street racers fear racing at the track ? I have been drag racing in my own rides that i bought, wrenched and drove since July 5, 1963. I have raced as much at tracks as i have on the street. I have yet to find or even see on TV a track that it takes a fraction as much savvy, expertise and courage to race on as even the safest street at the safest time in the safest possible manner.
The end game is that unless and until u have BEEN a street racer, and i don't mean just a spectator but a participant, all you actually KNOW about it is your opinion; what you think based on what u may have heard or read. Opinions are yet like A-holes, everybody has one and they only work for THEM.
This is not to condone street racing, in fact as a street racer many if not most of the folk out there trying to practice it i would much prefer they went to the track, IF they raced at all. Racing, street or otherwise, like anything else, is npot for everyone and it was never intended to be.
One last thing, this enamoration with "PINKS". Most folk, including the host of the show haven't even the 1st clue what that actually means. Back in the day and in some states even to this day, when one bought a car on credit and had it finaced u didn't get a title but actually a pink copy of same or a pink bill of sale that would b replaced by a clear title once the ride was paid for and the lien was discharged. To call a bet for pink slips was a sucker coward bet made by someone who actually didn't want to race, since if ya won what ya got was a car with a lien on it that you can beat and the finace company or lien holder would soon be along to TAKE same from ya, LEGALLY, if u didn't make the notes. As i say, whole lot of folk doing a whole lot of talking but few who are actually talkng what they know.