Hi, Guest
06-06-2006, 05:16 AM
I always get flak for this, but:
Not everyone that has ever "street raced" is a felon. We should all be aware of the inadequacies of the Canadian legal system... from your local municipality right up to the operations of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Racing is a surprisingly vague term, but here's what I don't consider racing:
2 asshats (like cowymo) dragging in public, in broad daylight and in considerable traffic within Toronto city limits. Those jerkoffs like to think they're street racers, but they're not. They're a pale attempt at impersonating someone who's part of a culture that has existed for over 60 years. All they're doing is endangering their lives, the lives of their passengers and of those around them.
Sorry, but I've been street racing for a number of years now... and I've been retired for longer than I've owned the Focus. I raced primarily in the mid-90s in a somewhat-modded 1986 Monte Carlo LS with a 305 CID V8. Furthermore, my Dad raced for a number of years in his late teens and early 20s... but he took his racing to the track after he saw a tractor trailer come out of nowhere and decapitate one of his best friends. He did fairly well as an amateur in both circle tracks and 1/4 mile runs.
Street racing exists for a number of reasons, but not all racers are anywhere near dangerous. They race in the right conditions, at the right locations for the right reasons. It's movies like TFATF and its sequels that ultimately got me to stop racing, as it inspired too many poseurs with mommy's Camry to come out and cause trouble. Well, actually that and the fact a bunch of kids that they've never definitively said "were" street racing whilst high and drunk killed my aunt. Even though I had no connection to them, and they weren't true "street racers"... I couldn't bear the parallels that could be drawn between them and myself.
Ask anyone... street racing has been around relatively forever in comparison to the history of the car, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon unless they have worldwide security systems tracking all moving vehicles all the time.
To sum it up... I agree with the banination of that asshat because he's not a member of the board that anyone wants anything to do with, and the real street racers want nothing to do with him either. As a former racer, I reject the categorization of such trash as a street racer.
Thanks, and I hope this is received in the correct light and context.
Not everyone that has ever "street raced" is a felon. We should all be aware of the inadequacies of the Canadian legal system... from your local municipality right up to the operations of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Racing is a surprisingly vague term, but here's what I don't consider racing:
2 asshats (like cowymo) dragging in public, in broad daylight and in considerable traffic within Toronto city limits. Those jerkoffs like to think they're street racers, but they're not. They're a pale attempt at impersonating someone who's part of a culture that has existed for over 60 years. All they're doing is endangering their lives, the lives of their passengers and of those around them.
Sorry, but I've been street racing for a number of years now... and I've been retired for longer than I've owned the Focus. I raced primarily in the mid-90s in a somewhat-modded 1986 Monte Carlo LS with a 305 CID V8. Furthermore, my Dad raced for a number of years in his late teens and early 20s... but he took his racing to the track after he saw a tractor trailer come out of nowhere and decapitate one of his best friends. He did fairly well as an amateur in both circle tracks and 1/4 mile runs.
Street racing exists for a number of reasons, but not all racers are anywhere near dangerous. They race in the right conditions, at the right locations for the right reasons. It's movies like TFATF and its sequels that ultimately got me to stop racing, as it inspired too many poseurs with mommy's Camry to come out and cause trouble. Well, actually that and the fact a bunch of kids that they've never definitively said "were" street racing whilst high and drunk killed my aunt. Even though I had no connection to them, and they weren't true "street racers"... I couldn't bear the parallels that could be drawn between them and myself.
Ask anyone... street racing has been around relatively forever in comparison to the history of the car, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon unless they have worldwide security systems tracking all moving vehicles all the time.
To sum it up... I agree with the banination of that asshat because he's not a member of the board that anyone wants anything to do with, and the real street racers want nothing to do with him either. As a former racer, I reject the categorization of such trash as a street racer.
Thanks, and I hope this is received in the correct light and context.
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.