Spring Street Racing is done this year

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Listen up all you Street racers, Looks like Spring Street is going to be done this year, the po po is going after you. Saw this on KSTP at 11 AM today


Mpls Businesses Asked to Help Crack Down on Street Racing
Submitted by Leslie Dyste, Senior Web Producer
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, 3:03pm
Topics: News Share on printPrint Share on emailE-mail ..Drag racing is a dangerous underground sport that's all about the need for speed, and sometimes it can have deadly consequences.

Minneapolis Police are cracking down on street racing and are asking neighbors to help. KSTP reporter Steve Tellier spoke to Mark Loeffler who said street racing is taking place right outside his workplace.

Loeffler says it's been going full throttle in the mid-city industrial area for years. He says when the weather warms up, speedometers spike as well.


Crowds of 200 to 300 people will party on the streets to watch the races, according to Loeffler.

But, police say the good times can turn bad in a flash. Last summer a drag race on Spring Street Northeast almost turned deadly. One of the tires popped, the driver lost control and the vehicle flipped several times. The driver was ejected from the vehicle.

Police are urging residents to report any signs of racing and are enlisting businesses near where the most rubber is burned.

Police have given local businesses "no trespassing" signs to put up. If the street races start, the business owners can call police, and the street racers would be arrested.

Loeffler worries that if police chase racing away from his business, drivers will just shift gears to another neighborhood.

http://www.kstp.com/article/12303/?vid=4074107&v=1

[Alleyoop2]

I miss all the fun! :treed:

[MR.hp]

I miss all the fun! :treed:

Well, we could always start some new fun :laughing smile:

[tcat55371]

well

Thats what happens when you close down all the close places to race, not that I'm saying street racing is a good thing. I've done my share but just saying....

[Fast One]

Thats what happens when you close down all the close places to race, not that I'm saying street racing is a good thing. I've done my share but just saying....

Yup! Cities that have set up night-time street-racing-style programs report significant reductions in illegal street racing & related accidents. Duluth has their annual Garfield Ave Drags. Once a year is better than nothing, but why not do it monthly or biweekly like they do in San Diego? http://racelegal.com/

Why not here in the 'cities?

Joel

[MR.hp]

Yup! Cities that have set up night-time street-racing-style programs report significant reductions in illegal street racing & related accidents. Duluth has their annual Garfield Ave Drags. Once a year is better than nothing, but why not do it monthly or biweekly like they do in San Diego? http://racelegal.com/

Why not here in the 'cities?

Joel

This state hates racing period, and with that we would rather build some new fancy dump for the Vikings that have not anything in how many year?........Wait for it> LIKE NEVER:laughing smile: Now with that said there is a ton of peoples money here in the cities just wating to be spent for racing, then all the places that would pop up to build race cars and speed shops that would benifit to.

I have street raced since the 70's and if done right you will neve get caught. Glenn and I have watched these clowns street racing and it makes me wonder why more have not landed in jail. Way back in the early 90's I met up with J.R. again and he asked if I wanted to go watch and participate in some racing, sure why not. We get to the spot and I raced some guy with a with fox body car (which I won) then we sat there and watched 2 other races, after that these guys sat there BS'ing like they were at a car show and in all my years of street racing one thing I learned is that you never stay after the racing is done! you leave and move on right away.


I have seen this over and over again and guess what happened? the po po shows up and said "GET OUT" It does not matter if it's Spring St. or Kasota the deal is the same watch 2 or 3 races then everyone sits there for 5 hrs.
The ricers are even worse with all the dumb stuff they do but at least you get to watch a bunch of races then the cops show up and it's like the Fast and Furious starts up and they all try to be Torreto and out wit the cops.:laughing smile:



I got a bunch of money I set a side each year for racing but it's too bad I spend most of it out of state. Hey there stupid Mr. legislator are you getting all this, easy money for the taking to pay the state debt, Fuck that, let's let the smokers pay for it.

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I don't think the whole state is anti-racing. There are a fair number of active oval tracks around the state, and they usually draw pretty good crowds. Greenbush Race Park sure is popular up in my hometown area. People come from miles around to watch the races, many from 40+ miles away. It's common to see a line of cars from horizon to horizon on Hwy 11 on race night.

Seems to be more resistance to pro-series racing in general, and drag racing in particular - especially at the state government level.

Yeah, I agree about the stadium. A nice racing facility would bring in lots of money & create jobs - and revenue would not be tied to the performance of one team.

Regarding street racing - yeah, a bunch of friends & I did it for years, too. A few of my friends & I even marked-out a 1/4-mile on a rarely-traveled county road with a 100-yard tape, and then painted 'Start' & 'Finish' across the road. We did it just so we could race each other in an accurate 1/4-mile, but it eventually turned into the local racing spot, and remained so for a couple decades. The cops would break things up if too many people showed up, but they rarely bothered us locals who raced there. The attitude was that they'd rather have us doing it there, on a rarely-used stretch of road with no driveways or crossroads, than doing it somewhere more dangerous.

You'd never get by with that up there nowadays!

Joel