Poland legalises street racing

Dangerous · 23 May 2008 at 09:34

Poland legalises street racing
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Police in the Polish city of Lodz have introduced a radical scheme to cut the number of accidents involving boy racers.

The police let the boy racers speed through the city on streets that have been specially closed to other traffic.

It's hoped this plan will drastically cut the number of accidents involving young drivers at night by giving them somewhere they can let loose.

The first legal street races have already taken place and the police are encouraged by the results.

"We've come to an understanding with the organisers of illegal street races," says Lech Ryszewski, who is head of the Lodz Motoring Club.

"We have created a Street Legal section to organise races on closed-off public roads and the participants are obliged to make sure no-one organises races on other city streets."

Alisdair Suttie

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/20022008/36/poland-legalises-street-racing-0.html

flat-6 · 23 May 2008 at 09:37

Fast & the Furious: FSO Polonez edition

Howard · 23 May 2008 at 09:38

flat-6 said:
Fast & the Furious: Polski Drift

Fixed

Dangerous · 23 May 2008 at 09:39

Bit of a distance away though!

penski · 23 May 2008 at 09:43

This is what they did in the states in the 60s/70s. Set up a local drag that's 'open' a few nights a week.

Hell, you could do it here if you wanted.

Call it £10 per person for entry and £25 per car for unlimited runs and you'd be turning people away all summer.

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Lashout_UK · 23 May 2008 at 09:48

Right, that's my Summer cruise sorted!

bad_ass_neil · 23 May 2008 at 09:53

i am doing it this weekend

york raceway but thats £10 in + £30 for unlimited runs, should be good as long as it dont **** it down.

penski · 23 May 2008 at 10:15

bad_ass_neil said:
i am doing it this weekend york raceway but thats £10 in + £30 for unlimited runs, should be good as long as it dont **** it down.

Yeah - crail, shakey and the pod do RWYB events too but few and far between...

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kaiowas · 23 May 2008 at 10:27

penski said:
Hell, you could do it here if you wanted.

By the time health and safety as well as the local NIMBYs have had their say you'd be lucky to get a scalextric set up in this country.

Schnippzle · 23 May 2008 at 10:43

Sweet

shauncr91 · 23 May 2008 at 10:54

England should take note of this

Skeeter · 23 May 2008 at 10:58

kaiowas said:
By the time health and safety as well as the local NIMBYs have had their say you'd be lucky to get a scalextric set up in this country.

Agreed,. H&S and the nimby-ism would put pay to any form of legallised street racing in the UK. Shame, as i agree, its probubly a dam good way to control it. If you cant stop them racing, then give them somewhere safe(er) to do it...

ajgoodfellow · 23 May 2008 at 11:03

Sounds like a great idea to me!

Lets everyone have fun, gets it out of their system and it doesn't endanger the general public

penski · 23 May 2008 at 11:05

Skeeter said:
Agreed,. H&S and the nimby-ism would put pay to any form of legallised street racing in the UK. Shame, as i agree, its probubly a dam good way to control it. If you cant stop them racing, then give them somewhere safe(er) to do it...

There are RWYB events up and down the country already. All I am talking about is making a weekly (or twice weekly) event at an official venue.

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SoliD · 23 May 2008 at 11:06

OCUK roadtrip to poland. Its a great idea, but would never succeed over here due to the fact you couldnt get it started with all the h+s etc governing the public.

rjk · 23 May 2008 at 11:07

nobody is on the polish roads anyway - they are all over here :eek:

Skeeter · 23 May 2008 at 11:10

penski said:
There are RWYB events up and down the country already. All I am talking about is making a weekly (or twice weekly) event at an official venue.

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Through city streets?

kaiowas · 23 May 2008 at 11:10

penski said:
There are RWYB events up and down the country already. All I am talking about is making a weekly (or twice weekly) event at an official venue.

*n

Is there any reason why you're talking about proper drag racing at proper venues (which have all of the appropriate safety facilities and insurance etc) and everyone else is talking about street racing?

pc-modd · 23 May 2008 at 11:37

Dangerous said:
Bit of a distance away though!

Its not that far. Google says 1,169 mi – about 18 hours 50 mins from my house

penski · 23 May 2008 at 11:46

kaiowas said:
Is there any reason why you're talking about proper drag racing at proper venues (which have all of the appropriate safety facilities and insurance etc) and everyone else is talking about street racing?

Because the US response to 'street racing' years ago was to allow local drag strips to open.

It worked - people raced on the strips, it got the racers off the roads and made everything safer.

I explained this in my first post...

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