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Fender asked:
We have all seen the show 2 fast 2 furious, and other alike, so my question is, what kind of street racing truly exists? I know you got the punk kids in LA cruising around in the POS ricers, but is there really something like 2 fast 2 furious, or people in Lamborghini and Ferrari’s racing around in different area of the USA?
We have all seen the show 2 fast 2 furious, and other alike, so my question is, what kind of street racing truly exists? I know you got the punk kids in LA cruising around in the POS ricers, but is there really something like 2 fast 2 furious, or people in Lamborghini and Ferrari’s racing around in different area of the USA?
September 18th 2009
Street racing is more common than you think. Mostly its just kids in cheap beaters that are all riced up but I’m sure in the rich areas those kids have some pretty nice cars. Its just not widely publicized where they race because then you would have cops showing up.
They should start doing this in more places. You get convicted, they crush the car, you pay court costs, crusher costs, and disposal costs.
September 20th 2009
i drive a f430 and my buddy’s drive anything from lambos’s,vettes,vipers,m5’s,amg55.we race around the city while videotaping it, we own the world and you ricer chumps eat $hitt and die.
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September 21st 2009
I’ve seen it in New York (I was really young), Jersey, Reno NV, South Cal. All this info is from my experience, I am just one in millions of racers out there.
Hollywood really glamorizes it. They show beautiful cars lined up, from 1 grand cars that have 100 large in them, to 6 figure cars. Half naked models walking around, Ja rule’s and Ludacris’s walking about. Huge bets on the races. And adrenaline music coming out of the night.
In life, they usually meet around midnight on the weekends. Anywhere where there is no loidering laws or after hours laws. Somewhere where you won’t get in trouble for just parking in their parking lot and chilling all night. Best Buy maybe.
A night can go anywhere from 20-200+ cars. Mostly ricers! (50% ricer, 30% mid to high end import, 10% muscle and SUV, 5% random spectators, 5% TOP end cars like vipers) Mostly young guys, age 25 and under. When they hit early 20’s they usually go legit or just give it up. You spend a couple hours showing off cars and talking to each other. There are racing spots all over their town (mostly drag). You can set up a race before hand or do it on the spot. On spot races can start as simply as “Hey who’s evo is this? Hey you wanna race?” The cars that are racing and a few spectating will go and race. Usually no bets are involved, mostly gas money if any. I’ve seen 1 grand at the most, and a couple times they bet their girlfriends!
If it’s a big night, cars will line up diagonally on the outside and they will run races there for however long they want. They cut the roads off for safety. If someone sees an incognito cop, they yell it out and everyone scatters! that is the fun part haha.
A lot of the time, the cops will sit by the meeting spot (Best Buy, etc.) and wait for a few cars to leave it. They follow them to the race spot. If this happens, they send 5 or so LOUD cars out to lead the police away. This is a phony race, they usually just lead them on the other side of town where there is no racing action going on. If this works then the real racers will go out after them and have their fun.
Sorry it’s so long. Any other questions?