Best Stoplight GP sites in the US of A?

[Al Navarro]

Folks-



Last Friday, a road trip meal at a BK was rudely interrupted several times by the roar of American V-8ness (sometimes in pairs) coming off a traffic light at an intersection near said fast food establishment.



In a whatever the opposite of a Carrie Bradshaw moment is, I thought to myself, "That's a pretty popular light to launch drag races off...I wonder if every town in America has their own Stoplight GP site."



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-Al

[slngsht]

They're very hard to find around here anymore (extremely stiff street racing fines). Even proper dragstrips are being shut down due to developments.



Around here, the best known one was an hour from my house in Hagerstown: Dual highway. This is where all the hot rods, T buckets, etc... used to go Friday nights.

[Al Navarro]

Mazda-Keep in mind that I don't mean "racing" in terms of passing on the double yellow or weaving in and out of traffic...whenever someone tells me they had a "race" like this on a public road, I tune them out.



I'm talking about simple 0-30, 40, 50 acceleration runs. I guess my question is, perhaps naively, would your local constabulary consider this sort of thing "racing" worthy of a ticket? I wouldn't, because is there any law about how fast one gets to the posted speed limit...besides the somewhat vague "reckless driving" charge.-Al

[slngsht]

That's exactly what I'm talking about. standing start races... and yes, any highway patrol would consider that racing, unless, of course, you did it in a Prius http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/images/emoticons/lol.gif



There are all types of names for it. You don't even have to do it against anyone else, break the speed limit, nor lose traction to get an "exhibition of speed" ticket at the discretion of the officer.

[slngsht]

California's definition: “street racing” means operating a motor vehicle in a race with another motor vehicle on a street, road, highway or other public place.”

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This is from Colorado's code:



(1)    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section, it is unlawful for a person to knowingly engage in a speed contest on a highway.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (b) For purposes of this section, "speed contest" means the operation of <strong>one or more</strong> motor vehicles to conduct a race or a time trial, including but not limited to <strong>rapid acceleration</strong>, exceeding reasonable and prude speeds for highways and existing traffic conditions, <strong>vying for position</strong>, or performing one or more lane changes in an attempt to gain advantage over one or more of the other racing participants.