[winnipegkevin]

I have street raced in the city and had some close calls. I reserved myself to racing on roads at the outskirts of the city after a while. About 8 years ago, when I was 22, the only thing you would find racing was muscle cars, mustangs and F-bodies. Then it began to draw every high school kid with a sport compact (emphasis not on sport) that could drive to bring out some piece o' crap or their parents car to go heads up with some jackass with a Tempo. Then more and more spectators started showing up and the police started to notice that a 2 km dead end road to a landfill was awfully busy at night. I think all the casual spectators made it so much more dangerous than required. It went from being serious car guys having fun to a lame high school "this is so cool!" event. It became so much work to find places to race where everyone didn't show up to watch that it wasn't worth the effort. Take it to the 1/4 instead, do it right and more safely. Idiots ruin everything. Actually, writing off my Mustang ruined everthing. I'm an idiot.