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Originally Posted by Dean
It's not about legality, it is about risk to yourself, and more importantly others.
Weaving through traffic at 20+ MPH over the flow of traffic, or racing down a public road with uncontrolled intersections and unprotected spectators and little or no safety equipment in the car, is infinitely more risky than any minor traffic infraction you mentioned.
It is the people who don't understand that risk or believe they are in control of it that are a danger to themselves, and more importantly, others...
That is why street racing is bad, the people who believe it isn't...
That is all.
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What Dean said. Anyone who thinks street racing can be "safe" simply hasn't ever gone fast enough and had a "moment" to learn to respect the risk you're taking at speed. It happens in an instant... one second you're in full control, and before you realize it you're suddenly wondering "how am I going to get out of this?"
On the track, the consequences of these moments are mitigated as much as possible... saftey equiptment in the car, rescue workers, run-off space, and nothing out there to surprise you like a CRX crossing the street. And *still*, people die at the racetrack. I can't for the life of me why people think the street can be at all worth the risk. Boneheads.