Why is street racing illegal in some places?
You need to think about a lot of factors involved with this, but in the end you’ll find it’s almost self-explanatory. First of all, you need to accept the fact that the road is NOT a race track. It may be constructed to a quality that rivals racetracks, but it is not being used for that. When people race on a race track, everybody knows that everybody else is racing, and so they will drive to suit the racing conditions. This just does not work on a two lane highway with trucks, buses and family cars plodding along at regular road speeds. These people are not aware of your ‘racing conditions’, and as such will neither be watching for you, or changing their driving to suit. Having mum and the kids move into your lane at 80kph while you’re blazing up at closer to 200 is a sure recipe for disaster. Whether you’re on a motorway, freeway or regular city street, normal give-way rules apply. It’s pretty hard to obey a stop sign at 160. Next, unless you are either Michael Schumacher, Mario Andr
