Yay

I did it back in the 80's and early 90's. I won a ton of races , and yea I got down regular highways. You know there are guys on the show that would not risk it. 90% of them are what I would call real street racers, and I know they have been doing it for years now, I watched the 1320/big rob vids before the show ever was a thought, but there are some that are not, lol
What's funny is Cecil,county has a "list race" once a month, we go totes because it's 15.00 to test and they prep it like its a radial,tire race LOL. So much for no prep.

Want excitement? Dude is either nuts or the BADDEST man on any street... love the open face helmet

https://youtu.be/UB8_RsBVI-s

Couple years ago towing my Dakota home from the track I was hit by one, my wife was hurt, my Ram wiped out and people wonder why I have a attitude about street racing?
A 10 year old girl was killed by one a couple weeks ago... Albuquerque, nm needs to start taking cars.

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All of this is a sad deal, but stuff happens. People die in cars every day. Should we outlaw them?

People get killed cleaning loaded weapons....yup ban them all.

People get killed every single day, one fork at a time. Ban fast food, sugar, salt, GMO's...ban it all.

Life is too short to live in fear of everything.

BTW, did you actually run up on an illegal drag race, or just two ricers not paying attention?

No difference. There are plenty of DAs that race on the street. They block traffic, run red lights and not just in rural areas. I see dumb stuff on FB and Youtube all the time. We had a bunch of people run down by 2 street racers a few years ago, the people were in the middle of the street watching 2 other street racers run down the highway.

what was great about that? The beat up ex-pro stock car was either broken or sleeping. Not much of a race.

What is/was best?
Pinks
Pinks All Out
Street Outlaws

I don't know the answer but the 405 has been on all 3 shows.

First was Farmtruck
Pinks

Then Chief, Dave, Azn, two times
1st Pinks All Out
2nd Pinks All Out

The race between JJ and Birdman is a prime example of you never know. There is no comparison in the potential of the cars. On a decent track Birdman's car is a monster and has been 3.80s. On his best pass ever, I think JJ is a second behind that. It's just a medium sized big block with a single plate kit. Line it up on a street or a no prep condition........you never know. JJ can likely use his track tune everywhere, regardless of condition because the car is just not a brute and works well. Birdman is all about power management depending on conditions. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

This is why there are so many aborted passes now on SO. They all have WAY more power than they used to, when they could go out and just cut it loose. Now you have to gauge how much you think the road can take on a given day and what you THINK your opponent might be able to go on the condition. These are all low 4 sec cars for the most part but they are NOT going to go low 4s on any road. About the best passes I have seen on a REALLY good road are likely 4.40s. But is the road today a 4.40 road, a 4.50 road, a 4.80 road or a 5.0 road. THAT is the trick.

Also, the reason nitrous cars make really good street race cars is the way they apply power. After some pimp juice burnouts, even a crap road can get really good for a couple hundred feet. So you have the option to hit it really hard early and then lay the power back to get it to make the trip. Most turbo cars are soft early and build power late, which is generally where the road isn't so good. The reason Chiefs new car has looked so good as of late is the weight. That thing weighs about 2400lbs. You can make a 2400lb turbo car 60ft hard and gives him the luxury to race it like a nitrous car. Leave hard and then lay on the boost controller. He is likely just on the springs at the stripe.


I know it was popular, but I thought Pinks All Out was crap. Just a televised index race. What was exciting about that? To me, nothing. Pass Time was a game show and the original Pinks was just handled wrong and the cars were typically junk.