The Risks Of Street Racing For Bystanders – Thirteen years ago this past April, I stood at the finish line of the last official street race I would ever witness. It was after midnight in an industrial park in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest. We’d come to the place in two- and three-car groups, driving our wild and muffled Supras and 240SXs and Bimmers as calmly as we could. Under a flickering street lamp, at the end of the service, two young men discussed “place” (
That one of them would get the cash terms of the bet. A neutral third person, who would serve as the starter, got into one of the cars. It was not an attractive woman. this was Ohio reality, not a Hollywood fantasy. My friends and I gathered at the end of the impromptu towpath and watched the taillights of the two cars …