I don't drag race, I don't get the track thing at all. It is cool to go fast, I've been fast in various cars. I ridden street racing with buddies. That is more of a rush to me than the strip. I get that it is stupid when done irresponsibly (that is a line a mile wide that is beyond subjective, eh?)
That said, I LOVE it when an old race track of any kind gets money poured into it. Love it. I offroad race. I like the amount of seat time you get, the alternate lines, split decisions when wheel to wheel with someone, literal head to head competition around tons of varied terrain seeing who is the better wheel man. Just because straight line for a few seconds isn't my thing, I get how important it is to have legal places to go and do this ****. Anything motorsports related. In KC we have lost KCIR, the grass roots drag strip, now there is just Heartland park in Topeka an hour away, not sure if they do grudge nights and all that fun stuff a hometown strip does. There is also I70 speedway. Asphalt roundy round. gone and grown up in weeds. There are a couple dirt ovals I went to with uncles as a kid where all the old cruiser cars and stock type classes. Gone. Still there on teh side of the highway, rotting away.
Not sure if my rambling got anywhere, I guess what I'm saying is that with the country of laws we are becoming, with everyone offended about everything, with people thinking that gear heads are a menace, it is great to see legal, legit outlets open or have money put in them. The fear is future generations won't have these legal places to do it. When its already in your blood, the legal place leaves, you go do it illegally. If you never had a place to go in the first place, you never get involved. You might play Pokemon go or some ****. And walk into a street looking at your screen and get hit by an illegal street racer who no longer has a drag strip because the city thought it brought an undesirable element to the neighborhood.
