Tokyo Street Racing pictures:
02-16-2005, 06:52 PM
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Tokyo Street Racing pictures:
From : NissanPerformanceMag.com
"Although NPM condemns street racing, street racing is universally so ingrained in the culture of car crazy Japan that we had to check it out. We attended Tokyo's famous street races on the Wangan, an elevated freeway that lops around downtown Tokyo. The Wangan is featured in Playstation 2 and the real one is exactly like the game. The scene here starts at about one in the morning and continues until about 4am. There are many park and ride lots on the Wangan and at night, these become meeting places for the street racers to congregate. The racers pair up and soon they are wailing around Tokyo at high speeds. Unlike freeways here, the Wangan is actually two to three lanes narrow and quite twisty. It is lined with unforgiving barriers ready to eat the unsuspecting. It loops around the heart of Tokyo is actually a pretty challenging drive.
Japans culture is surprisingly tolerant of there antics. It's rumored that some major tuners do testing here at night as well as some of Japan's famous racer car drivers. In fact we were the guests of a famous unnamed tuner who took us around in one of the shops Lancer EVO VIII's. The police even seem very tolerant. When the police did show up, a single patrol car pulled into a parking lot and the lot's occupants simply calmly left and the police did nothing to harass the racers. We didn't see a single racer pulled over all night. Nothing like this could happen in the crime ridden and lawsuit happy society of America. Surprisingly we met several Americans hanging out at this scene as well as others from Australia and New Zealand. "
"Although NPM condemns street racing, street racing is universally so ingrained in the culture of car crazy Japan that we had to check it out. We attended Tokyo's famous street races on the Wangan, an elevated freeway that lops around downtown Tokyo. The Wangan is featured in Playstation 2 and the real one is exactly like the game. The scene here starts at about one in the morning and continues until about 4am. There are many park and ride lots on the Wangan and at night, these become meeting places for the street racers to congregate. The racers pair up and soon they are wailing around Tokyo at high speeds. Unlike freeways here, the Wangan is actually two to three lanes narrow and quite twisty. It is lined with unforgiving barriers ready to eat the unsuspecting. It loops around the heart of Tokyo is actually a pretty challenging drive.
Japans culture is surprisingly tolerant of there antics. It's rumored that some major tuners do testing here at night as well as some of Japan's famous racer car drivers. In fact we were the guests of a famous unnamed tuner who took us around in one of the shops Lancer EVO VIII's. The police even seem very tolerant. When the police did show up, a single patrol car pulled into a parking lot and the lot's occupants simply calmly left and the police did nothing to harass the racers. We didn't see a single racer pulled over all night. Nothing like this could happen in the crime ridden and lawsuit happy society of America. Surprisingly we met several Americans hanging out at this scene as well as others from Australia and New Zealand. "
nice pictures. 
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02-17-2005, 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by S2K-MONTREAL' date='Feb 16 2005, 10:52 PM
Japans culture is surprisingly tolerant of there antics. It's rumored that some major tuners do testing here at night as well as some of Japan's famous racer car drivers. In fact we were the guests of a famous unnamed tuner who took us around in one of the shops Lancer EVO VIII's. The police even seem very tolerant. When the police did show up, a single patrol car pulled into a parking lot and the lot's occupants simply calmly left and the police did nothing to harass the racers. We didn't see a single racer pulled over all night. Nothing like this could happen in the crime ridden and lawsuit happy society of America. Surprisingly we met several Americans hanging out at this scene as well as others from Australia and New Zealand. "
