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well I usually race in contained environments on the street... And its always really late at night and never in traffic... If something were to go wrong, it would be my life lost, not some family traveling in their mini-van...

2nd, as far as taking it to the track, people have kind of shed a little light on the matter. I honestly feel that this area doesn't want to promote that either. 3 years ago there was 3 tracks(2 1/4 miles and an 1/8th mile) within 35 miles of me... Now there is a crappy 1/8th mile that is open only on Thursdays that you would be better off trying to launch on gravel... The road we race on is a concrete bridge out in the freakin' middle of no where... the bridge itself is exactly on mile long(there are 3 lanes on each side, the bridge splits in the middle so its actually 2 bridges running parallel)... The land itself is government owned and the only cops who ever patrol it are park rangers, though they don't patrol it late at night on weekends, so all is good)...

there has been racing there since the bridge went up(way before my time and I'm 20) and it seems that everyone knows what goes on there... In fact I know of a few local policemen who have ran their cars there before(and A LOT who used to race there)...

They cracked down about 5 years ago after some drunk crashed a few miles down the road and his parents blamed the street racing, but it is now back to the old way of business on weekends...

The local track tried a "street wars" thing on saturdays to get people away from there and on the track, but then the local authorities started setting up road blocks a few miles from the track and we just pricks about it, so no one went and it ended soon afterward... Had the authorities did the right thing AND PROMOTE IT, it probably would have succeeded, and with the flock of cars coming in, they could have afforded to fix the track, meaning more cars, more money, less street racing...

makes sense to me...