I was sitting around on sunday night talking to some older people.... mid 40s to around 60 year olds. And my car came up as the topic of convo.
And they were saying how the younger people shouldnt be allowed such high proformance cars etc etc Same old same old.
Then the topic slightly shifted to drag racing on the streets. Especailly the recent one of the WRX v Skyline on Pt Wakefield Road incident. Now i in no way condone on street drag racing, but in my opinion this is a prim example that should show people, eg government people, that South Australia is in dire need of a safe off street drag strip. This opinion was quickly shot down by every person there i was talking to. There take on it was if we had a drag strip here it would encourage people to do it on the roads more often. As in they know what the thrill and excitment of dragging so they will want to do it more often and do it on the streets. But my opinion is if people knew they could do it in a safe enviroment they would use it and not run the risk of doing it on the streets, losing there license there car or there life! I mean sure there are some idiots that it wouldnt help but for the majority of us it would help!
They didnt agree instead saying an even bigger crack down should be made on defectable high proformance cars etc etc, limiting age groups to certain types of cars etc etc and higher penalties for speeding, dragging etc etc.
No matter what i said i couldnt convince these people of my way of thinking.
Am i wrong??? lol
What are your opinions on this?
Ps i have heard rumours the WRX v Skyline was actually a WRX v SOARER...... :S