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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder
I'm all for track racing, but the simple facts why a lot of my friends and myself a few times have engaged in street racing is thus.... the track is two hours away, they have regulations such as if you own a conv. and go 13.49 or faster u need a roll bar and other regs.
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I agree somewhat, When I was in Highschool, our closest track was over two hours away, Street racing had killed a family one warm august night in Coral Springs Florida on Sample road and University Dr. After much debate and concern from the community the Broward County sheriffs allowed racers to race out at the end of Atlantic Ave, in unincorporated Broward county, a mile strip of road in the everglades. We raced there under police supervision every Friday evening. This continued to get more popular until it was attracting hundreds of cars and people, it was getting very dangerous, people were bringing home built dragsters, it was getting very clear to the police that it was getting out of hand, It was only a matter of time before tragedy would strike this dark road. and it did, I Trailered Camero, ran with me, the road was a 4 lane divided with a 3 ft median strip, we ran down the right side and the left was for incoming cars. So we ran first, we get down to the left turn around which had a cutout in the median for a future intersection 1/2 mile down the road, the camero stalled out and he could net get it running, the next group came racing down the road, two drag bikes. one of them could not see the stalled camero, the bike slamed into the back of the car at over 100mph killing the driver. there were several accidents and two more deaths before the police shut down the road once known at the Everglades Strip. they later admitted that the accidents were due to the lack of lighting and safty devices needed to protect the drivers and onlookers. Street racing once again pleaged the streets of Coral Springs and would take more innocent lives in the years to come, in the early 80's Coral Springs had to triple the police force to combat speeding. I moved out of south florida after that but still to this day the only Drag strip in south florida is in Miami Hollywood speedway home of the gator nationals. there was Moroso Motorsports Park in Jupiter, FL, still over 2 hours away.
There is a petiton to open one in broward county.
http://www.petitiononline.com/ourrace/petition.html
You should try to petition your county get one open one near you.
start a petition drive of a forum and car shows,