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Nothing too exciting or spectacular, but I found it to be quite amusing.
Last night was at the 1/8 mile races at Qualcomm Stadium with my friend enjoying the cars, smell of burnt rubber and race gas. Now San Diego has the worst track record of street racing deaths in amerca, so a few parents of the kids who died made this venue for people to come out and race legally as well as get time slips and what not.
I try to go as often as I can as its only $5 for the night to spectate and $20 for the night for unlimited runs if you want to race you own car. Cops are here, but there are no questions asked about your machine, and they are actually quite pleasant to be around. Its a fun, safe way to spend a friday night with your friends and get some runs in if you want.
So while we are watching the racers, the track announcer starts laughing and after the next race is over makes a rather amusing comment. Well apparently, some idiots decided the legal safe track wasnt good or "cool" enough for them and left to go do some real street racing. Dumb to begin with, but we all know ricers are capable of so much more. Apparently 4 cars left and just had to get that race in as soon as possible, so why not do it in front of the stadium where the legal races are being held? 4 cars line up at the stoplight EXITING the stadium and run it 4 cars wide... Smooth move idiots. Well all the police swarming the area were quickly alerted by all the noise not happening at the track itself and quickly snagged all the cars down. All 4 cars were being impounded and drivers are facing a couple thousand dollar fines.
My friend and I had been there for a while, so we decided to head home for some beers, and as we were pulling out the last of the 4 cars was being loaded on to a flatbed truck to be taken away. The driver was standing the side of the road, still wearing his helmet from the legal races. Being the ass I am, I rolled down my window, honked my horn and proceeded to point and laugh at the idiot.
I still cant get over the fact that they were stupid enough to race less then 1/2 mile from the actual track where they were able to race safely and legally.
Congradulations asshats!
On a side note, there were some very fast cars that came out. Awesome races.
Exhibition Quickest ET Runner Up: Billy Dawood, Muscle Stangs
1986 Ford Mustang, RT .596, ET 6.679@104.40 MPH
Exhibition Best Reaction Time: Duncan Patterson
1968 Chevy Camaro, RT .526
- award sponsored by Miramar Speed Circuit
Best Reaction Time: Sebastian Holguin, Team Inferno
1999 Honda Civic, RT .500
Domestic Quickest ET Winner: Aram Hartounian, San Diego F Bodies
1995 Chevy Camaro, RT .691, ET 8.040@88.75 MPH
- award sponsored by Miramar Speed Circuit
Domestic Quickest ET Runner Up: Anthony Pangrazzi
2004 Ford Mustang, RT .764, ET 8.265@90.00 MPH
Import Quickest ET Winner: Juno Ignacio, Auto Tech
1993 Mazda RX7, RT .527, ET 8.095@82.71 MPH
- award sponsored by Miramar Speed Circuit
Import Quickest ET Runner up: Jo Joe Dabalos
1993 Honda Civic, RT .924, ET 8.120@94.94 MPH
Motorcycle Quickest ET Winner: Vince Hill, Black Dragon
2000 Suzuki GSX 1300R, RT .544, ET 6.452@115.39 MPH
Motorcycle Quickest ET Runner up: Howie Long
2004 Suzuki GSXR 1000, RT .772, ET 6.923@109.45 MPH
Motorcycle Best Reaction Time: Danny Gonzalez, Southeast Riders
2003 Suzuki GSXR 750, RT .516
- award sponsored by Miramar Speed Circuit
High School Best Reaction Time: Jose Machado, Grossmont High School
1972 Olds Cutlass, RT .521
Ok that turned out a bit longer then I thought it would, but oh well.
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2001 Honda Civic EX
DC SPORTS TIE BAR
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EIBACH ALIGNMENT KIT (COMING SOON)
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TOKICO HP BLUES (COMING SOON)
RSL VILLAINS 17" (DISCONTINUED)
FALKEN ZIEX 512 (LOW PROFILE)
Bwahahahha Oh man. Well, they learned their lessons, hopefully.
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