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stradlater
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A plan to help get street racing off the road.	Fri, 17 June 2005 02:30

I've toyed with this idea for a while now, often wondering why other's haven't ployed the same thing. Maybe it's just to hard, but with the right media pull, it wouldn't be that hard a thing. Here's what I had in mind.. Of late, there has been MASSIVE media attention joined with massive politcal attention directed towards street racing/drag racing. Frankly, I think that the attention is warranted, however biased and one sided it might be. From an automotive enthusiests point of view, the attention does nothing more than bring the rest of us that do the right thing under the spot light. Therefore, it's in our interests to promote and assist in facilitating off street racing/drag racing. To this end, I've come up with the following idea. The government reaps much in the way of 'revenue' from road rules around the state (country on a different scale). Speeding fines alone would bring in a huge amount, but put in fines from people driving defective cars and driving dangerously and things such as that. So why can't the government channel just a little of this revenue towards subsidising legal, safe, offstreet drag racing events like what is held at Calder park of a friday night? the $50 that it costs to enter may be considered a bit steep, so why not get the government to fund part of that and lower the entry fee to $15 or $20 something like that? Additionally, maybe we can get other drag strips open to the public, like Sandown or some such. Open more often, for slightly cheaper, with more public awareness, take the racing off the roads and onto the strip. Additionally, it would require much more advertising to make people aware of the fact that they can do this, and do it cheaply. Even a mini club to try and attract young drivers to it could be arranged. Now I know this would come up against huge criticism, one of the major things being that the government wouldn't want to pay for any of it, but with a strong media backing it would be possible to swing them I think. Then once it's got a bit of government backing, it would also be possible to get a bit of backing from the public sector. That said however, the key to the whole idea is public awareness. If the public know it exists, particularly the reationary section of the public that hound enthusiests every time something like that comes on the TV, then government would be urged to get behind it, AND the private sector would be interested because of the all the public awareness (read advertising). A first start would be a website and a campaign name. I'd be funding the website, but ideas for campaign directions and contacts in both public and private sector would be appreciated from people who would want to be part of the idea. However, for the start I would just be interested in what people thought of the idea, and where they can see it going/falling down. Anyone? [Report message to a moderator]

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