That guy in the video is stupid, he said that "its not the car that causes the accident, its the driver". HOW IN THE HELL DOES HE KNOW THAT? If the car is totaled, and the driver is killed, how would you know if something failed? Also, IMO each time you put something new on your car, its also adding risk for something to go wrong, even if you are the best racer in the world...

 

VERY good point! Looks like Jimmy Fung, or whatever his name was (forgot) has to bring his car into the shop every time he needs the oil checked so he wouldn't have a clue if a bolt on his spindle was loose or something and it flew apart at 120 mph.

 

True, but not true. Unless you are a professional race car driver, you wont have the experience to keep the car in control. Street racing a car for a 14 second race doesnt make you a good driver, it makes you a stupid driver IMO.

 

If "the driver" doesn't have the training to drive properly, he has no business racing...on the track or not.

 

i'd pretty much agree with that... if ya wanna race, keep it to the track, and AT the track, get pointers/lessons from ppl who KNOW how to race so you can improve your times...

personally, when i'm on the road, i just like to be "efficient" in my driving meaning yeah, i'll accel faster off the light to get ahead of the car next to me, but if that guy suddenly starts gunning it, i'll just slip into the newly created space behind him!

and i'd never go over 80 in a 50 zone... and i'd TOTALLY never gun it in a pedestrian area like Kerrisdale (for you non-vancouverites, that's where the guy toasted his P5, and it's one of the busiest pedestrain parts of vancouver)... if u've got more cylinders than IQ points, STAY THE HELL OFF THE ROAD!!!

p.s. bout the entrapment thing, in vancouver we have a blue subaru 2.5RS (older model, w/square headlights) that's an undercover cop car, and yeah, if he revs his engine that's entrapment, but here's a story bout the first time i saw it:
i was literally behind the cop and he was just sitting at the light, then a riced up CRV pulled up and gunned it w/screeching tires on the green... within seconds i saw red&blues flashing from out of the tinted windows (it's a pretty light tint). he pulled the guy over right then and there...
and as a further warning for "efficient" drivers in vancouver, the cops are now using all sorts of undercover cars now for laser-radar traps... when i was going to UBC i saw some beat up old brown american car with cops in it tagging ppl... i've also seen a white ford contour... just FYI