Today’s Street Racing by Joey Hurtado March 22, 2007

Today, people illegally race on the street and cause severe collisions. Countless accidents have caused injuries or even death. However, most racers, with commonsense, instead compete in closed course tracks. There they can race and do whatever they want to with their cars. Events have been going on all over the United States that support the sport of racing. There are different types of racing that are being done on these tracks. For example, there are: time attacks, drifting, drag races, and show cars. All these types of events attempt to bring street racers to the tracks, where they can race for fun and get in trouble, with the law. It is saving many innocent lives that do not even relate to racing and money on car damages. There are unwise people out there who race because they think it is cool and fun. It is fun, but when a racer gets in a wreck, it is not so amusing and cool anymore. For car enthusiasts, the closed courses help them improve their skills, which they might use to pursue a racing career or to just show off a talent to the public. To partake as a racer, in these events, one is required to pay an entrance fee. People come to these events to have fun and observe what others are doing to today’s cars performance.