"Street Racing" called "Drag Racing" once again

[hotrod]

As for the accident, I keep wondering if the accelerator might have hung open which certainly could have caused the accident. I've had that happen and I didn't react to it near as well as I thought that I would have. As for Street Outlaws, I believe they are racing at the end of the drag strip at Noble. Notice the fences and the lighting.

 

[Super Mod]

when you play in the mud...you're goin' get dirty...... outlaw street racing then equals drag racing...some things will never change

 

[Larry jr.]

As for the accident, I keep wondering if the accelerator might have hung open which certainly could have caused the accident. I've had that happen and I didn't react to it near as well as I thought that I would have. As for Street Outlaws, I believe they are racing at the end of the drag strip at Noble. Notice the fences and the lighting.

We were out there and there is clearly a trail of power steering fluid from about a hundred feet from the A.E. shop that leads around the corner and up the hill directly to the crash site, its very painfull to think the steering system in the car failed causing the accident.

 

[BlueStangGT]

As for the accident, I keep wondering if the accelerator might have hung open which certainly could have caused the accident. I've had that happen and I didn't react to it near as well as I thought that I would have. As for Street Outlaws, I believe they are racing at the end of the drag strip at Noble. Notice the fences and the lighting.

Sometimes they do race at the end of the Noble track, sometimes on streets or highways that are closed for the filming of the show. As for the off camera stuff and "test hits", your guess is as good as mine.

 

[Nunz]

I wonder how contrived the Outlaw show is. I mean, they test at a track to actually compete on a street? Obviously there is betting and grudge racing happening at local tracks all over. Usually street racing is a product of not having a track to go to. These guys have pretty serious cars, I think this show could be 100% scripted, reality shows are more about drama than anything else. IMO

 

[Muddy]

I wonder how contrived the Outlaw show is. I mean, they test at a track to actually compete on a street? Obviously there is betting and grudge racing happening at local tracks all over. Usually street racing is a product of not having a track to go to. These guys have pretty serious cars, I think this show could be 100% scripted, reality shows are more about drama than anything else. IMO

Most of it is scripted. They currently do most of the racing at Union City whitch is a small city southwest of OKC. The police control the traffic and have emergency services on site. The testing is much less controlled but still made for TV.
The Discovery Channel controls who what where and when and most of the drama is contrived. 'The betting you see doesn't actually occur as far as payouts or thats what I'm told. They do some testing and racing also at Noble (thundervalley). Having said all of that it still doesn't take away from the fact that street racing is big time in OKC. They used to meet on fridays and saturday nights aboout a mile from my house and it was not uncommon to see 50 to 75 cars there wanting to race. They would arrange the races, time and location and depart from there. Lots of highly modified cars with very high HP engines burning most anything besides pump gas. Lots of blowers, injectors and turbo chargers. Many on trailers and a few driven there.

 

[Larry]

From a rival call out web site the losers admitted that the OKC site is blocked off by the police and if you look closely there is a lot of rubber on the concrete which means a lot of launches .
As someone noted perceptions are hard to change and technically they are racing on a street .