Anyone else see a problem with the amount of people tracks allow to be in the staging lanes?
I can only imagine the carnage that would occur if one car has a mechanical issue while doing the burnout. Maybe a stuck throttle or blown tire. IMHO there should be a limit of 2 people directly associated with each car permitted anywhere near the starting line. While I haven't personally witnessed it, only "as seen on TV" with the "Street" racing shows, it would be front page and first on news if anything happened and would certainly harm the sport.

I agree. There should be NO SPECTATORS anywhere near the starting line or burnout box. Max of two crew members, and stop holding the damned cars in the burnout!!! It will continue however until someone does get hurt, then all hell will break loose.....

The stands are probably filled with smart (but lazy) Lawyers. They don't have to "Chase the ambulance", just walk down to the starting line and sign 'em up!

Really, this is a disaster ready to happen, and eventually it will.

Bob

No driveshafts ever break... at Lights out at SGMP a few years ago they assigned a wristband with a certain color that allowed u to be on the staring line, Milan Mich is doing it too but only on the FRi heads-up races, no time Sat is a whole diffrent story....

You all need to see this at Big Dawg night at Piedmont. I saw one on here the other day where a guy in a wheel chair was right up there in front of everyone.

Not a fan of that crap. Saw a driveshaft nearly kneecap a couple folks a while back. Lucky for them, it missed em by a foot or so. Have heard many horrific stories of "accidents' between water box and starting line. Saw a video recently of a car doing a burnout with idiots on the track side of the wall. Car got sideways, idiots didn't move, idiots got squeezed/squished by the car. I assume they learned their lesson? What legitimate reason would there be for more than one person to be alongside the car as it's being staged? At Frank Hawleys school a few years ago, he talked about a clutch that came apart and went through the car in the other lane as they were doing their burnout. I wonder how many folks have been hurt by being up there for no reason?