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Highway racing is not only dangerous to the participants it also puts the general public in danger who happen to be on the same highway.
People who condone it deserve to be called out for applauding those acts of stupidity.
You also deserve every single traffic ticket you get if you happen to be one of the participants. If you happen to be one of those who loses control and maims of kills somebody you also deserve what you get.
I agree.
That's why it takes more balls to roll race on the highway. Thanks sir !
Back in the day (late 1950s) we didn't call it "roll racing", it was "doing the flying mile".
We hit the start side by side at the agreed on speed (often 35 or 40 MPH), and whoever hit the one mile marker first was the winner.
Back then I was driving a 1941 Buick, straight 8 with factory dual carbs and three-on-the-tree transmission. A guy who had a souped up Chevy was always pestering me to run the quarter mile, but I would not do it because the neutral gate on that three-on-the-tree was so wide it was impossible to speed shift it. Finally, I agreed to run the quarter if he would run a flying mile after he won the quarter. He did win the quarter mile, then refused to run the flying mile. I guess he was afraid that ol' Buick would run away from his Chevy. It just might have done so. Might have.
Ennyhoo, road racing, whether the quarter mile or the flying mile, goes back to at least the 1950s, probably back to the '40s or '30s!
It wasn't real smart then, and it still isn't!
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