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Street outlaws



With how many posts you have made in a short time and the lack of quality in your posts, you are in fact either a bot, or a very lonely person with zero hobbies and a love for 20 year old family sedans.
 


Im willing to bet that same road is shutdown or a strip made to appear to look like a public road. Now some of the test hits they do really appear to be on public roads with no police help to block traffic. When watching, DVR it if you can and then play close attention to the background when they are doing the list races. How can they have those huge mobile construction light poles illuminating all the people, cars, trucks and trailers on the side of the road and not attract the attention of the cops. On and episode from the first season for a split second I saw the red and blue light waaay down the road that appeared to be blocking the road.

That said Im still a fan, and Murder Nova's ride is redonkulous!!
 
They don't deny that the roads are shut down. That is Discovery Channels doing. Prior to filming they never shut down a road to run the list, or to run King of the Streets events.

The money you see bet on the show is also just for TV. One of the racers answered a question about it and replied that he doesn't bet because his car is low budget and he doesn't have that kind of cash laying around.

I'm not sure how many people know this either, but probably half of the drivers aren't the owners of the car they race.
 
If the roads are shut down its not a "street race" IMO. Well even though it is on the street but you know what I mean right?

Your last statement about the drivers not being the owners just chaps my azz but im not surprised. Still pretty entertaining tho.
 
It's still a street race. They prep a public street with their own material no more than 30' out.

Streets are closed during filming to protect the production company from lawsuits if anything were to happen. These cars are 10 second and less cars in the quarter mile. If they hit anyone, death would be instantaneous.
 


As far as the owner not driving, think of what they do more along the lines of a professional racing team. There's an owner, a crew and a driver. Not everyone can drive a sub 10 second car. It takes a lot to get that much power down the track as fast and as safely as possible.
 
They arent street racers at all. Street racers drive the car to the race. What these guys are(aside from farm truck) is a bunch of dumbasses too retarded to go to a drag strip, likely cause these cars prolly woundnt pass safety.
 
Just because you don't trailer your 16 second Grand Prix to race your buddys civic doesn't mean there isn't a reason to trailer a sub-10 second car to a race. If something breaks, you still need a way to get the car home. Also, OKC area is huge, so they could be driving an hour or more to get to the spots they are using. That can be one hell of an uncomfortable ride with race suspension.

I'd like to know where the aside from Farmtruck came from. If you look around, you can see videos of pretty much every one of the cars on the show at a dragstrip.

Oklahoma does not have vehicle inspections. Invalid point is invalid.
 
If you pay attention farmtruck(why i said this in the first place) isthe only STREET racer. He actually drive to the races. I dont drive a gp btw. Anyway, point proven theyre just too big a dumbasses to keep it on the track. So if i strap a jet engine onto a chevette and trailer it to a randomass highway and race a randomass hick i can b a badass outlaw streetracer too? I watch the show but am bored by most the cars
 
If you listen to the intro on season 2, its clearly states "Street Raced Cars" rather than "Street Cars" because people like you got their feelings hurt after season 1.

Although it may be the only you see, Farmtruck is not the only one who drives their car on the street. His power is mostly from his engine build, which he has A LOT of money into. It is very conservatively tuned (Read: Slow) and that's why he can get away with driving his truck around the way he does. Most of these cars have illegal exhaust due to decible laws and are on non-DOT approved tires when racing for safety.

In all reality, It wouldn't take much to make them all reliable street cruisers, but there's no point in it. Build a jet engine chevette if you're gonna talk about it like its so simple.





Would ya look at that! It looks like the Farmtruck is on a trailer.
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Speaking of dot, the murder nova, roflmao. Who builds a 1000ish hp car and then not keep track of the tires. I had a sbx ranger that prolly ran 25 sec in the downhill quarter i always kept track of my tires. Anyway im sayin the show is a letdown.
 
It can be a bit of a letdown at times, but it airs in the winter when most of the country can't race. The show has fictional drama, so it appeals to more than just racing fans, so your girlfriend/ wife can watch too. There hasn't been a good drag racing show since pinks or past time, and based on how TV has worked lately, hopefully this brews more. There have been a lot of callouts and wanabes trying to get on TV since season 1.

In all reality, no matter how you spin it, Drag Racing is a dying sport. A lot of tracks are closing, so the more popular it gets, the better. In the meantime, all the drivers are selling merchendise, along with the travel and production costs, which is all helping the American economy.
 
Hey we finally agree on a couple points :). Like i said i do watch it cause ir is still racing. Yeah i think when drag racing started losing interest was when started becoming like nascar in terms of sponsership coverage and pro teams. I myself am more into aurox but i love regular stoplight races. At least they changed the format on the show, used to b more smacktalking than racing lol.
Explicit_Spade said:
It can be a bit of a letdown at times, but it airs in the winter when most of the country can't race. The show has fictional drama, so it appeals to more than just racing fans, so your girlfriend/ wife can watch too. There hasn't been a good drag racing show since pinks or past time, and based on how TV has worked lately, hopefully this brews more. There have been a lot of callouts and wanabes trying to get on TV since season 1.

In all reality, no matter how you spin it, Drag Racing is a dying sport. A lot of tracks are closing, so the more popular it gets, the better. In the meantime, all the drivers are selling merchendise, along with the travel and production costs, which is all helping the American economy.
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