Raymond Parks was the most succesful team owner in the strictly stock division and he was one of the people that helped build NASCAR into something more than a group of moonshiners trying to outrun the law. Though Ronald Reagan did still have to give Junior Johnon a pardon for moonshining.

Most people consider street racing as a useless activity by the youngsters. It is thought not only as an activity which wastes the street racers’ money and time but also endangers their life.

What makes most people furious about street racing is that it also endangers the life of innocent people who have nothing to do with the street racing as the race occurs on public roads.

What I am going to suggest here is that we should let them play their racing game away from the public. Let these people, the street racers and their fans, have their own place to enjoy the racing game.

Here’s what we could do for the street racers:

• Allocate for them an open space on a piece of land with a size of one or two airports. Let them race their cool cars, hot cars, fast cars or whatever they call them in a less developed area in the suburb which has low real estate value.
• Make it totally free for them to play a racing game – no entry fees, circuit fees or any other kind of fees or charges. They cannot afford to play a racing game legally at a race circuit like Sepang Circuit.
• The racers and the observers must realize that they take full responsibility and will not make other people accountable for any accidents, injuries and even loss of lives.
• Let the racers set their own racing rules.
• Make the race track adjustable and let the racers adjust the shape of the race track themselves (by using cones or other methods).
• The racers can race any time, day and night
• No police should interfere with them, except in the case of fighting.

Surprised with the above ideas?

You may think that it is a waste of tax payers’ money. You may even think that these ideas will further encourage them to do the useless activity.

However, which one of these should we give more priority? Tax payers’ money or tax payers’ life (including the life of the accompanying non-taxpayers)?

We should give priority to the life of innocent people. In fact, you may be surprised if I say that my suggestion will not only save more lives but also generate profit!

Before I go on any further, let’s get into the minds of those who play the racing game.

These youngsters know that they risk their lives. They also know that their racing game costs money. So, we should forget about trying to talk into them and save their lives and money. As youngsters, they usually will not listen.

The only thing left that we can do is to get them away from us when they play their racing game so that they will not harm the life of other people.

And now, how are these ideas profitable and beneficial?

When the street racing drivers and fans gather at one place, they will become a more “visible”, identifiable and locatable market. The authorities can have business premises such as shop lots available and ready for rental nearby their race track as they are a ready market for the following products and services:

• New and used fast cars, cool cars, hot cars, etc.
• New and used motorcycles of many brands like Harley Davidson, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, etc.
• Auto parts and accessories.
• Racing apparel.
• Athletic footwear and sports equipments.
• Street racing videos and games.
• Formula 1 products such as posters of Formula 1 cars, posters of Formula 1 racers like Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, etc.
• Magazines on fast cars, cool cars, hot cars, auto parts, etc.
• Advertising space for auto traders for products manufactured by Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, etc
• Petrol.
• Food.
• Good talents among the street racers can also be easily identified, extracted and exposed to legal racing. Who knows they could be the next great Formula 1 racers like Michael Schumacher or Fernando Alonso!
• The authorities can have better control of modified vehicles. The racing cars and motorcycles can remain in the racing area at allocated parking spaces.
• The authorities can save tax payers’ money as income from shop rentals, advertising space and tax on the race organizer can offset the land cost
• The authorities can also save money and time required for preventive actions such as having traffic police chasing the street racers on public roads
• And believe it or not! The street racers can even play their racing game more safely as there will be no public road users, no traffic lights, no buildings or any other obstructions on their race track! There will even be no traffic police blocking or chasing them!

So, let the street racers have their racing games to play for free. Who knows, the above ideas could make street racing a step closer to be transformed into just another kind of extreme sports.