[NOS2Go4Me]

Here's the problem: everyone who street-raced back when muscle cars were EVERY car is now approaching retirement. They've lost the love for cars, and cars going fast. In the 50s-60s-70s, street racing was quite commonplace in the middle of the day.

Ironically, it was easier to get your license back then, but only more skilled drivers drove fast for the most part. The world had their grannies behind the wheel, but mostly the powerful cars were driven by those who could control them at speed.

These days, everyone seems to be born with a silver spoon (or distributor cap) in their mouth. Mommy and Daddy buy them their first car - usually a crapvic or something else small and imported - and they rice it out until our eyes bleed. Then, they do something worse - they "street race" with it.

Street racing is best performed in a near-deserted location in the middle of the day OR night, with a bare minimum of spectators located BEHIND the starting line. The drivers should come to an understanding as to where the race ends, and stay as far apart from each other as the "raceway" allows.

Street racing that occurs on the highway by accident is normally not as enjoyable as there's normally a pile of cars around. This type of racing that occurs on a DESERTED highway at like 4-5AM gets my thumbs up.

MORONS who stoplight drag in the middle of the day in a residential or commercial / downtown area need to get taken out behind their cars and beaten with their exhaust pipe. The same for those jerks who "race" down the highway and cut off many other vehicles who often have no idea whatsoever about what's going on around them at the best of times.

How does one eliminate street racing? For starters, by having parents actually pay attention to what their obviously underexperienced kids are doing with the rice burning POS they bought them so they can "drive to school" and be cool like all the rest. When junior's ride dislodges your good china and causes Grandpa's pacemaker to beat out something to make Snoop proud, you need to have a little chat with them.

What's the next step? I can't reiterate this enough: AFFORDABLE, PLENTIFUL, POLICE-ENDORSED track access. It's working in the states, especially Cali. There are HUNDREDS of former street racers cleaning up in 1/8th mile and 1/4 mile bracket racing, mostly the former of the two. There are high school teams created just for this purpose. Also, the cops have been known to make race cars and come out to make it REALLY enticing to win - who doesn't want to outrun a cop car? :)

Right now, especially in Ontario, we have a serious deficiency in the parents skills of a LOT of families, and we have a serious lack of available track time to the general public. This goes double if you're north of Barrie.

Want people to stop racing? Build more tracks, make the insurance that seems to be killing these tracks more affordable, and make the events sanctioned and SUPPORTED by not only a known racing body but also local authorities and local businesses. AND, parents need to start actively having a hand in the lives of their kids. When some punk street races in a "known" location and mows down a whack of spectators, I blame both the racer AND the spectator. The racer for being dumb enough to race at a venue just to get "mad props" from everyone attending, and those attending for being dumb enough to stand in front of Junior who obviously just got his G2 and doesn't know how to handle the 75-shot of NOS that was just bolted under his hood a week ago.

I'm done.