Damn IL lawmakers

[hutch1999]

Well I just read the local paper and they listed some new state law going into effect on Jan. 1, 2008. The main law that pissed me off was the new street racing law. The law state that anyone involved in street racing can now have their vehicle impounded and their drivers license revoked. Any other states have any of these new street racing laws? I feel like im in So Cal now, except with shittier weather and less mexicans.

[Sleeper101]

Yup!! Street racing is getting outlawed quickly!!! Thats why im sticking to the track. No need of wasting my license over a race!

[LT1 > LS1]

Well I just read the local paper and they listed some new state law going into effect on Jan. 1, 2008. The main law that pissed me off was the new street racing law. The law state that anyone involved in street racing can now have their vehicle impounded and their drivers license revoked. Any other states have any of these new street racing laws? I feel like im in So Cal now, except with shittier weather and less mexicans.

i only street race up to about 15 mph over the speed limit. that way. you never are at too bad of a ticket if caught, and can slowdown real quick. that ain't bad when it is a 50 mph road. 70 mph is enough to see which street car has more grunt. atleast for a 16 old kid in a pickup truck. :LOL:

[hutch1999]

lol yea but when your in a fairly fast car going 15 over is pretty easy no matter what speed limit you are in

[Sleeper101]

Ya when your in a 400+ HP car. o-100 is less than 10 seconds. So before you can look down your already in trouble HAHA!!!

0-180 in my 240 is around 20 seconds!!! So Thats why I never street race unless its an actual good challenge. I like racing on the track better anyways, There is more people there to watch the actual story go down. No B.S lies!!

[hutch1999]

the worst thing about track is the closest 1/4 mile to me is in St. Louis which is over 100 miles away and the closest 1/8 mile track is about 60 miles away.

[Sleeper101]

Ya that does suck for you man!! The closest 1/4 is in bristol for me and thats 4 hr drive 1 way. But I have an 1/8 mile 30 mins down the road.

But if your in an open country its a hole new ball game. Just busy streets and towns. Thats a big No no in my book. Just gotta be smart when racing.

[hutch1999]

oh yea ive got a couple real flat smooth country roads perfect for late night racing. But you still got to watch out for cops even on these roads

[slowgtp]

Sucks but it is dangerous. Too bad so many tracks are gone. The public doesn't want the noise of the track but doesn't want street racing either. So car enthusiasts are basically screwed. It's funny that the car manufatures are building more and more horse power that you won't be able to use any more. race you to 25:)

[Orcus79]

Its pretty much national law here now, car get impounded, you get a $350 fine plus a court date. Well that my understanding of what I was told by an officer, be fore the law took effect.

[hutch1999]

Sucks but it is dangerous. Too bad so many tracks are gone. The public doesn't want the noise of the track but doesn't want street racing either. So car enthusiasts are basically screwed. It's funny that the car manufatures are building more and more horse power that you won't be able to use any more. race you to 25:)

I live a half mile from what used to be a pretty nice 1/8 track. It sucks they had to shut it down about 30 years ago, now it just has houses on it.

[hutch1999]

Its pretty much national law here now, car get impounded, you get a $350 fine plus a court date. Well that my understanding of what I was told by an officer, be fore the law took effect.

That sucks man.

[slowgtp]

The scary thing is how they interpret the law. I could see them trying to use it against you even if you just get on it from a light hard without another car around. If you gat a jerk cop and or DA you could be in a world of hurt.

[Sleeper101]

Ya well when I had my z28 camaro I pulled out of a pizza station and I accidently churped 2nd!! and a cop wrote me a ticket for disturbing the peace!! he was a doush bag!!! So if they wanna give you a ticket they will come up with something no matter what.

I have cops coming into my dads business (were my car sits) and asks him questions about it all the time, Like whats done to it and if I have NOS and shit. Dad plays dumb and is like That piece of shit stays blowed up so who cares what it has!!! LOL!!! then when they leave he's like wat dumb asses we have these days!!!

[LT1 > LS1]

it sucks they closed down the legendary oswego dragstrip.....i live in oswego!!!!!!!! i would live at that place.......... i wish it was back :(

[Sleeper101]

I think cops should lease the drag strip for free 1 night a week and let kids run there cars safely and legaly. I seriosly think this would help in the racing on the streets. But no one likes to listen to the public talking!!!

[02ultraZ]

i think in some parts of california if you get caught street racing your car goes to the crusher, caught that on the news a few weeks back. They showed and integra and a civic getting smashed together...

[hutch1999]

I think cops should lease the drag strip for free 1 night a week and let kids run there cars safely and legaly. I seriosly think this would help in the racing on the streets. But no one likes to listen to the public talking!!!

Its the fuckhead insurance companies closing tracks and making it hard for people to start new ones.

[Sleeper101]

Ya thats true!! Insurance is a B.S way of stealing peoples money!! They are making it hard on everyone to actually race competitive!! You almost have to be rich!

[02blkws6]

Blame the layers and the court systems. You can get sued for anything now a days. It's ridiculous the amount of pussies in this country/world.

Ya thats true!! Insurance is a B.S way of stealing peoples money!! They are making it hard on everyone to actually race competitive!! You almost have to be rich!

[Sleeper101]

Blame the layers and the court systems. You can get sued for anything now a days. It's ridiculous the amount of pussies in this country/world.

Ya!! I wish I could be a judge!! I would Bitch slap someone for bringing a stupid case into my court room. Its a waste of time and a waste of life!! People need to grow up.

[JwMonE99]

Funny how people hate lawyers but when they need one they love em and how pple wish they had lawyers in there family or friends with some good lawyers...

[Ricks99ls1]

less mexicans? hahahah illinois is turning into little mexico

[LT1 > LS1]

less mexicans? hahahah illinois is turning into little mexico


no kidding. i work at a hardware store, and mexicans are well over 60% of the people that walk in there. they always ask me if i speak spanish, but i don't cuz i'm from frikin Georgia!!!!!!

then they get all pissy, because my name is Sergio, and i don't speak spanish, so i am just like :hifinger:

whatever.....

[hutch1999]

lol i can pick out a few spanish word, mostly cuss words which are really good to know

[JwMonE99]

there are lots of mexicans here too. I seriously think they will take over america and spanish will be a primary language of the US as well.

[hutch1999]

damn, thats why we need to vote for Huckabee. Then Chuck Norris will whip all the illegal mexicans right out of the US.

[JwMonE99]

I think they need to give US citizins have the right and power to bring in the Illegals.

[t-rock]

we have a 1/8 mi track here and after the brackets are over for $15 you run what you brung and as long as the staging lanes have cars on them they let you go as many time as you want. it runs on a shoestring budget so hopefully it will stay open as long as possible.

[Loudz28]

least theyre not crushing your cars...

[hutch1999]

thats for sure

[Loudz28]

and ya gotta be there to watch too. horrible. if i lived in that county i would definately not go down without a fight.

[ATCharming]

this thread makes me angry when i think about how mnay ppl's fault this is.

well... now its incentive to run from the cops if ur racing. whats it gonna be... run, or get urliscenes revoked and car impounded. i choose run. before, i woulda never said that, but now with the way theyre being douchebags about it its almost necessary.

fyi the closest dragstrip to me is 3 hours away (closest i know of).

[hutch1999]

man that really sucks, I figured with you living in rockford there would be a strip pretty close.

[ATCharming]

Funny how people hate lawyers but when they need one they love em and how pple wish they had lawyers in there family or friends with some good lawyers...
meh... ive had lawyers in the family and they have all been pricks. even the ones that helped us... all assholes. plus, parents are goin thru a divorce so now i got 2 lawyers separating the family that are bein dicks about everything... and fuck. i hate lawyers. (if ur a lawyer, well... :shrug:)
less mexicans? hahahah illinois is turning into little mexico
rediculous amount here... i live in a small country town and we still got like a 10% mexican population, most of which are illegal
man that really sucks, I figured with you living in rockford there would be a strip pretty close.
as far as i know, the closest one is a couple hours away but its not summer yet so i havent searched THAT hard.

[Getzen_Guy]

it sucks if you are caught in any kind of "speed contest" it'smajor crap now.
all the tracks are getting closed because insurance companies don't want to pay... lawyers? um i think they just get paid to do what people want, so it's not so much their fault.
and street racing is such a big deal becuase of people like my ZX2 escort guy that drive like total asses, and risk OTHER peoples lives.
still makes me mad, I have to drive freaking 70 miles to the track

[Sleeper101]

Regardless there is going to be Stupid drivers on the road like your escort guy! Some people were just born with no common sense. But I think if they inforce the law it should be a 2 offense rule. I think if you have been caught and warned then you will know how to lay low. But if your retarded like your escort guy, Since they done it once they will do it again then crush there car on the 2nd offense, Not the 1st.

Since no one wants to pay insurance on a track, They should allow someone to close down a street once a week for a nightly street race like back in the day.

[Empatho]

rediculous amount here... i live in a small country town and we still got like a 10% mexican population, most of which are illegal



if they are illegal all you have to do is deport them, and someone is going to come over and take them away its that easy

[Getzen_Guy]

Regardless there is going to be Stupid drivers on the road like your escort guy! Some people were just born with no common sense. But I think if they inforce the law it should be a 2 offense rule. I think if you have been caught and warned then you will know how to lay low. But if your retarded like your escort guy, Since they done it once they will do it again then crush there car on the 2nd offense, Not the 1st. lol yeah

[JwMonE99]

They did that? WTF did they stop?

[00 GTP Debadged]

Man, I am glad I moved to Alabama... I did know that if you were caught street racing in Illinois, that you would lose your license for a year.

How close are to US41 in Indiana? That is were we use to go, much better traction than Skateway. My PB was there. My latest runs were here in Alabama, and traction was horrible. I had to baby it off the line just to pull the 2.0 60.


Randy

[ATCharming]

well me, im in northwestern IL. so traveling anywhere in indiana is a fewhour drive

[hutch1999]

Man, I am glad I moved to Alabama... I did know that if you were caught street racing in Illinois, that you would lose your license for a year.

How close are to US41 in Indiana? That is were we use to go, much better traction than Skateway. My PB was there. My latest runs were here in Alabama, and traction was horrible. I had to baby it off the line just to pull the 2.0 60.


Randy

Im 60 miles west of Evansville and US41 so its a lil haul for me

[02blkws6]

GIR is only about 20 miles from me.....

[Redegal]

i only street race up to about 15 mph over the speed limit. that way. you never are at too bad of a ticket if caught, and can slowdown real quick. that ain't bad when it is a 50 mph road. 70 mph is enough to see which street car has more grunt. atleast for a 16 old kid in a pickup truck. :LOL:

Cool you have the Nitro Rustler? I got the VXL Rustler with the 5000Mah 3S Maxamps LIPO battery. The thing Rocks! It won't even stay on the ground. Lol.

Sorry to jack thread. Be careful out there. If you street race, be stealth about it. Just my 02.

[slowgtp]

Cool you have the Nitro Rustler? I got the VXL Rustler with the 5000Mah 3S Maxamps LIPO battery. The thing Rocks! It won't even stay on the ground. Lol.

Sorry to jack thread. Be careful out there. If you street race, be stealth about it. Just my 02.

Stealth is good. My GTP looks and sounds pretty stock and my GN is pretty quiet I think it helps keep attention away from them. I don't run personalized plates either just makes it way to easy to be labeled by the cops. In the GN I guess it wouldn't matter...not too many around to blend in with;)

[Redegal]

I don't run personized plates on my Regal. The only givaway is the "Got Alky?" liscence plate frame from Razor around my back plate. ;) My brother is even more subtle with his GN. He's got a "Got Boost?" third brake light.

[pewterzron]

Saw this post late but here in chicago the aldermen think they are gods. Listen to this.

Last year they passed an ordinance that if you get caught drag racing your car gets impounded, 750 dollar fine, 170 for the tow and 25 dollars a day for storage fees.

If you run and they get your plates they can still impound your car where ever it is parked. So either way you are fucked.

All I can say is that I totally disagree with this, but I have been to plenty of street races here and the fuckin idiots out here that street race should have their cars crushed. Seen too many accidents.

Whatever happened to two guys just racing straight no animosity and hey bro nice car.

Oh and best part is the ordinance states it can be one vehicle in a race against time. So if you smoke your tires got a loudmouth and try to beat the light, you are dragracing in chicago.

Fucking hate the politicians here in Chicago.

[Redegal]

Whatever happened to two guys just racing straight no animosity and hey bro nice car.


It's not that kind of racing that the law makers are going after. It's the big crowds, bling bling, money flaunting F&F style illegal organized drag racing events on public roads. Now that this type of racing has brought attention to the authorities their gonna be out to get any shmo (like myself) just driving down the road in a car that looks like it might be fast. Man do I sound like an old fart or what?


Seriously though, I know some may argue that there isn't a legal drag strip within reasonable proximity. Well, my father used travel from Mass. the whole way to places like ATCO in southern NJ and Island Dragway in NW Jersey to LEGALLY drag race. Even if that's too far to travel, why not pool some people and money to organize a LEGAL drag race in your town?

[pewterzron]

Ya, it just sucks. I got pulled over doing 105 on the dan ryan expressway here in chicago. It was late 2 am, and no one out. The state trooper was very professional and courteous. He asked me what I was doing, I said nothing, you caught me, nothing I could say. He said slow down, be carefull. What you gonna do. You right about the bling bling and big crowds.

[Redegal]

It sounds you got lucky there.

Don't get me wrong there's no excuse for any type of racing on the street and I'm not saying I'm not guilty of it but why draw attention to ourselves?

[99blueZ]

rediculous amount here... i live in a small country town and we still got like a 10% mexican population, most of which are illegal
.

Theres a whole lot more of them where i live - consider yourself lucky!! There are like a half million of them in chicago. They are taking over my neighborhood one house at a time.

[stefan256]

damn, thats why we need to vote for Huckabee. Then Chuck Norris will whip all the illegal mexicans right out of the US.

i know who im voting for

i got pulled over because my tires chirped turning left into my apartment complex b/c a slow *Hispanic* driver in a beat up f-150 almost got me hit in the freaking side because he decided to come to a dead stop to turn right onto the same road as myself. The cop pulls me over i look in my rear view and if it isnt a chick coming out of the car ( bad history with women police ) and she jumps all over my case talking abotu how i chirped my tires and she could write me a ticket for wreckless driving when i was just trying to save my own but meh w/e she ended up not giving me a ticket but i was told if im seen ever driving wrecklessly my car is hard to miss around here or w/e by her shell have me pulled over even if someone is flying by me.

Um the county i live in is filling up with hispanics b/c we were like number 2 or 3 in country in growing counties so more houses are being built and who do you think is doing that? i worked with some for 2 summers buildind house foundations who were legal and pretty good people so i cant say they are all bad