Imo there no more risk to street racing someone than if you are screwing around by yourself, whether that be a doing a burnout, punching it from a stop or on an entrance ramp, taking off fast, etc.
The only difference it street racing there is someone else next to you, they are all dangerous, and you can lose control doing any of them. You can wreck your car, hit a bystander, run into another car, etc doing any of them.
If you look down on one you should not do any of them.
Now do I go up to stop lights and race people, no, do I screw around sometimes, yeah sure. But there isnt really any difference other than you are more likely to attact attention when your doing the same thing with another car or with traffic or people around.
If your going to screw around do it in an industrial park, in the country, etc somewhere where there is no one around.
__________________
|