Atlanta May Offer A Designated Street Racing Location

Same here the closest Public Race track is the Hockenheimring wich is around 400kms away

Well, it’s also a problem down here in Surabaya, Indonesia. Despite there’s a local race track everyone still doing street racing illegally. On my case, though, the problem was on the local government and also the adequacy of the track itself . The local governing body for motoring [IMI - Ikatan Motor Indonesia, or Indonesian Motoring Union if roughly translated to English] on the East Java Province in Indonesia didn’t collaborate with the local police to hold amateur/grass-roots level motorsports events to dampen the number of street racing around Surabaya area (which is where I live). The local police in Surabaya only did preventive measures on them, mostly by raiding the street racing scene so street racers would , sort of, play hide and seek with the local police officials. I think that this isn’t enough to handle the street racing problem because the people with authority only tell them not to do street racing, without facilitating the street racers so they would reduce their street racing activities and focus to do something else, or going the legal way to fulfill their passion in going fast. On the case with the local race track, though… I never been there, but my buddy in college did. He said that the track was too small and the main straight wasn’t long enough to let anyone with higher engine displacement to go at full throttle [by the way, I think street racing and track days can be done on both two and four wheels, right? In Indonesia street racers usually raced motorbikes because they are far cheaper than cars in any way possible, and so in Indonesia the motoring culture was dominated by those on two wheels and an engine in the middle, sitting under the rider’s crotch]. I checked the location via Google Map and found another problem, the track safety wasn’t good enough and lacked of run-off areas [too much of it can make the track very dull to drive on, too little and there’s too little space for any vehicle to go off-course in case something went wrong]. The track’s layout was too simple it provide limited challenge - it’s only 4 hairpins connected by short chutes after right hand turn off the main straight, followed by a simple s-curve and a sharp hairpin turn into the main straight. It’s not quite adequate and not quite challenging track to race on. That’s why people still do street racing down here in Surabaya.