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i have been done for both..

said burnout (in my old car, about 2 years ago) at 10pm on a sunday night in a deserted industrial area - 3 points and $250 fine

last weekend got pulled up by unmarked car doing 115kph on 100kph on quiet road just out of toowoomba - 3 points and $150 fine.

But i guess the law is the law. actually the cop that caught me doing the burnouts said i'd picked the right time and the right area but they were called out to a bugluarly in a nearby business and heard my car, saw what was going on so had to write me a ticket. Was almost sorry to have written it lol

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yeah, sadly i think in remote areas like highways between here and cairns etc etc, shouldnt have speed limits, or atleast 120km or higher depending on the driver, and doing burnouts and things in industrial areas late at night is better than doing it outside teh local mcdonaldss in my eyes.

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yeah, it's all gone a bit crazy lately, alot more politics involved compared to sensible idea's into actually finding ways to reduce the road toll.. i don't think a burnout has ever killed anybody, standing next to a car drifting around a roundabout must be the equivilent of running across a highway without looking

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well i say that we need a 100kph limit as most of our roads are shit and any speeds heigher than that would mean carnage IMO.. can you imagine every drunk country hick, every old lady that cant see, every poorly maintained kingswood with more rust than metal doing those speeds on the highway? i think not..

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yeah like i keep saying, they keep saying under 21s etc cant own v8ss turbos or supercharged cars, but i honestly dont see a problem. almost all of these types of cars, have airbags and alot better safety equipment that a 1970 corrolla. or a commodore..

young drivers yes, they crash more as not good drivers at first, but old poeple are worse, and yes they die more often, but look at the shit boxes they cruising in.......

the cops and governement should spend more time safety checking shit cars than restricting performance vehiciles.

anyway i think we arew sorta going way off topic here guys

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well i say that we need a 100kph limit as most of our roads are shit and any speeds heigher than that would mean carnage IMO.. can you imagine every drunk country hick, every old lady that cant see, every poorly maintained kingswood with more rust than metal doing those speeds on the highway? i think not..

i went to darwin, and those roads are horrid, yet, no speed limits,, nothing like doing 215kmh, in a rental car and passing road trains :s safe, and everyones happy, only weird thing was seeing aboriginals walking along the road 4 hours from anywhere

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I just spent some time working in Abu Dhabi (near Dubai) - speed limit on the highways is 160km. around town it's the same as us 80/60ish.

the highways are great a little like the M1 to the coast, 4 to 5 lanes.

NO trucks are allowed out of the outside / slow lane. slow cars take lane 2 & 3, and the 140+ is left for the inside lanes

the BIG problem is around town - the 60km.

getting guys that hit 160 on the highway to slow down to 60 in town... doesn't happen!

spotted some smashes in town that had up to 10cars involved.

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I just spent some time working in Abu Dhabi (near Dubai) - speed limit on the highways is 160km. around town it's the same as us 80/60ish.

the highways are great a little like the M1 to the coast, 4 to 5 lanes.

NO trucks are allowed out of the outside / slow lane. slow cars take lane 2 & 3, and the 140+ is left for the inside lanes

the BIG problem is around town - the 60km.

getting guys that hit 160 on the highway to slow down to 60 in town... doesn't happen!

spotted some smashes in town that had up to 10cars involved.

yeah that works the same as the autobahns we were driving on last time in europe... i laughed so hard when i saw a sign that read, when wet reduce speed to 150kmh

just shows how behind we are

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yeah that works the same as the autobahns we were driving on last time in europe... i laughed so hard when i saw a sign that read, when wet reduce speed to 150kmh

just shows how behind we are

there roads are 10000% better that the average qld road! that's the big problem

and at least the germans slow down when driving in towns, etc. these bastards were doing 120+ on a road like corro drive. when they smash, they smash good!!

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there roads are 10000% better that the average qld road! that's the big problem

and at least the germans slow down when driving in towns, etc. these bastards were doing 120+ on a road like corro drive. when they smash, they smash good!!

yeah true, we were coming up 220, in the fast lane, and everyone moves out of your way in advance, no need to brake or tailgate. :( scary thing was a minivan overtook us while we were doing 220:s lol

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not exactly off topic, i was remarking it was such a shame my car's in the shop when it's raining =P

i like practicing my defensive driving, so that if there's a situation during the day where i will need to avoid people (and the roads ARE crowded during the day) then i'll be one less factor in something possibly messy

i try not to annoy the coppers too much by making stupid amounts of noise, just some quiet slidey back roads where there isn't any residents to annoy, and no traffic to endanger

that's my story and i'm sticking to it

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not exactly off topic, i was remarking it was such a shame my car's in the shop when it's raining =P

i like practicing my defensive driving, so that if there's a situation during the day where i will need to avoid people (and the roads ARE crowded during the day) then i'll be one less factor in something possibly messy

i try not to annoy the coppers too much by making stupid amounts of noise, just some quiet slidey back roads where there isn't any residents to annoy, and no traffic to endanger

that's my story and i'm sticking to it

Thats not defencive driving :(

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It's about as close as most people can get to doing a defensive driving course in their owns cars unfortunately :) Damn govt cardigans, give us back our skidpan!

Dude you can still do the advanced defencive driving courses on the skidpan. Just as a club we can hire it out to 'drift' around it all day.

Either way theres a bit in the pipeline for that, so fingers crossed it just wont be too long!

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Yeah i save it for the track... :)

hey now this has all been brought up, people keep saying burnouts should be kept for the track. Does that mean for example the track day on the 25th, if i wanted to i could bring my stockos and do a smoke show & donuts in the middle of the track while everyone else is off the track watching or atleast at a safe distance? Or would that be frowned upon as well becuase its using up precious track time? Dont mean to be controversal just seeing if you really do save it for the track or just use that as an expression.

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