How NYC Street Racing Became Unstoppable👮🏻♂️| Explained Ep.34
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Credit: / @29xjay
In essence New York’s street racing problem just boils down to 3 factors.
Every year there are less and less drag strips which house a safe and controlled environment for racing to happen thanks to the effects of urban development. Having access to a 500HP or more car is as easy as signing on the dotted line for a high interest rate loan on a used BMW and adding a downpipe and tune. And last of all social media encourages copy cats to emulate what they see for likes and follows but most lack the skillset required to properly control and handle a performance vehicle leading to more preventable accidents that burden the system as a whole.
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RIP 1STOCK
I just learned about him through this video, yesterday morning wtf
Just saw a post by 981 talkin about it RIP
Please do video on 1stock death thank you and RIP
Stock 340 legendary. RIP B58 General!
RIP to the legend 🕊️🙌🏾
As someone with zero interest in drag racing, and almost no interest in street racing..
1. With a ticket that cheap, I might do it just for fun. A fine that costs less than the transit and ticketing at a proper event? And you may not even have to pay it? Nice.
2. I am thoroughly pissed off that someone can build a house next to a drag strip and then get it shut down for noise. YOU CHOSE TO GO THERE. It's absolutely stupid to drive this stuff out. It doesn't matter if most of us don't care about it - there's more than enough room for everyone. These things shouldn't be demolished or stopped just because most people don't care for it. That's such a stupid reason.
Go to a car meet or street race and just see how it is. For a lot of people It's an adrenaline rush and for a lot of other people It's being the winner
That 300C just macked a week ago. 3 ppl passed in that car because of speed
Cities across the country should be incentivizing drag strips to stay or go into business. Channel some of that money that would otherwise be used for ticketing, officer salaries, specialized vehicles, court staff salaries - it just boggles the mind that politicians are this dumb.
Don’t get it twisted. It’s not just the ticket, not the sizable amount your insurance premiums go up for 18 months due to the ticket. It’s like well over a grand in increased insurance premiums alone. Not just the ticket
As someone who has interest in racing this is what happens when you say one thing and mean another. You say take it to the drag strip but you mean go fuck your self. The street racer takes that and reciprocates to a tee. I don't care about your laws you need to fuck your self. Except one side has the argument of oh that's dangerous and one side has the argument of ok we'll do it anyways. The human mind will always seek control and will go insane to prove its free.
This is the longest BMW ad ever😂
💀💀💀
😂 facts
@@RolandKoller90 balding
“Buy a BMW, because even the the non M Ms are still Ms”
I bought my first one 7 years ago, still have a BMW today. Only way I'd switch is if I get Porsche money.
1. Someone builds a drag strip far away from any houses.
2. Someone builds a house near a drag strip.
3. Someone buys a house near a drag strip.
4. They complain of the noise from the drag strip.
5. Drag strip gets shut down.
6. Now street racers all over the city cannot stop.
@@bokc_nonpopularsalt1011Part 7 Insurance quotes go up for the people living next to the closed drag strip due to all the people crashing in their cars on accidents.
8. They get angry and question local gov. Why cant they build drag strips for wanna be racers? 😂
@@birtalanlorant5572Not to mention I’d bet a lot of the people street racing don’t have insurance so their premiums won’t go up because they’re not paying to begin with. The idiots that petitioned for the track to shut down are the only losers here
@@bokc_nonpopularsalt1011 complaints about street racing ensues
Should have drag races at industrial area that has factories that make noises.
"you dont got it and will probably mack" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro had me dying 😂
RIP Houston Raceway Park. Everything you said about the tracks closing 100% applied to the closure of that track.
Yeah I had so much fun at that track, went to every TX2K event from 2016 to 2023 and the night meets at Midnight Performance. That place will be missed
Should have drag races at industrial area that has factories that make noises.
Laguna seca is going through the same thing sadly
@@technocody9296shouldn’t build houses near racetracks.
Do they build houses right next to the airport? Fuck no.
Use some common sense.
@@bleachstain9785 I said industrial street or industrial park where factories and ship docks as example. Industrial districts usually have lot noises and weird smells from smog of pollution.
340i prices after this video 📈
it's already outrageous here in Europe LOL
Guess we gonna have to commit some financial stock fraud >:)
smhhhhhh
These things are almost the same price as the M versions. It's crazy
@@dimmacommunication60k for a 370hp mid sized bmw lol
Bro the end “because you don’t got it and you’ll probably Mack” 😭
💀💀💀
Bro thought he was from ny😭😭😭😭
Ts killed me😭
MACKSAUCE
@@337speed You realize some of us been to racetracks before Where981 was born though right? Some of us don't do this because of common sense, not because "we don't got it". I felt offended considering the driving skill in these videos is usually pretty low, they have decent risk managment skills though. It's certainly not about wether or not you "got it", the fact that most of these guys haven't crashed is pure chance and luck, I refuse to acknowledge "skill" when civilians had to make evasive maneuvers to prevent crashes in their videos. If these guys go to a circuit they will be slow. And some of the guys on the circuit might be slow in traffic but it strongly seems one takes more skill than the other.
lol the shoutout to 981 is legendary
small brain
Simp stop watching illegal videos
@@joeyc1563 they are fun tho
@@Jonathanj1059womp womp
@@joeyc1563stop supporting the illegal unconstitutional gang known as the popice
Man, I feel dumb now as an older person. In 92 my dad said son, I have enough money to buy you a brand new car. If I buy you a brand new car, you won't take care of it and you will dog the crap out of it. ( the whole time I'm shaking my head saying no I won't daddy, knowing I would. )
Instead of buying a brand new car, we went to the junk yard. At the time you have to realize that all I was hearing about was Cutlass this and my Cutlass that. So my dad and I bought a P.O.S 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass. This thing looked bad and smelled even worse.
We found a friend who had a shop that we could use, only if we could get rid of the smell in that car. We finally did get the smell out and the work began. This was my 14th birthday present from my parents.
We gutted everything in and out of this car and even dropped the frame from the body. It took almost 3 and a half years of solid work to finish this beast of a car. About 3 months before we finished the car, my dad would suffer a stroke and while in ICU, my dad would suffer a fatal heart attack.
My mother kept begging me to go out there and finish that car, your daddy would want that. I got lucky and the friends shop we were using, this man was an awesome mechanic.
We finished the car, kinda in July of 1995. Right before my 17th birthday, I drove this monster to my house. 3 things left to do on this car.
1. Paint it.
2. Get the seals to work better on my drop top.
3. A killer sound system.
The paint job I went with. It was a black and green with blue, red and silver pearl bowling ball paint job. This car looked so freaking good. Depending on how the light hit the car, is what color you might see. We put 5 coats of clear on the paint and it was very close to turning the clear yellow. ( I knew where to look to see the kinda yellow. We talked about sanding it down but decided not too. )
The sound system. I had 4 6x9s in the back dash. 2 12 inch Infiniti subs on what I called the luggage rack underneath the 6x9s back dash. Then to top it off on the subs, I had 4 15 inch Infiniti subs. In the front I had 2 horns and 6 small tweeters.
This is where you know when you're old. I had 2 Orion Red Beast pushing the subs. I had 1 Yamaha Amp that pushed the highs and mids.
Now this wasn't just an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, oh no. This car was powered buy a Chevrolet Corvette LT1 with 2 Turbos pushing this motor at the fly wheel 850hr at 6,500rpm
We had to find a shop to fit the new driveshaft that was coming in. The Cutlass was a little bit longer. I loved this car so much and I know my dad would have been proud.
I brought it to the race track to run it in a quarter mile. ( Now this is funny and kinda off a little bit. My girlfriend at the time had a dodge dynasty and one of her friends ran it at the track. This car ran a 10:86. Had I not see the paper, I wouldn't have believed it. )
So I'm getting ready and the safety guy asked me, where's your helmet at son?? I said helmet??? I had to barrow one of the guys helmets I had never even met before.
I take off and I made a great run and I knew it too. I come back and I had been told that this car should pull 11s or high 10s. I get back to the front and the guy stopped me. He said son get this car off my track right NOW and do NOT come back until you have a 12 point roll cage in it. The car ran 11:19 at 126mph.
I was so pissed that I didn't beat my girls stupid Dogde!!! I went back and looked at her sheet to compare the reaction time and so forth. I noticed something that I had over looked every time I looked at that paper. Her car ran a 10:86 on an 1/8 mile track. It didn't even give the MPH on that sheet.
When I was 19yrs old, I got popped doing 144 in a 55 zone. Evading and about 4 other charges. I ended up giving my car up instead of getting 2 felonies and losing my DL for 5 years. My dad would have shot me for that.
Anyway I know this was long and I know my car couldn't keep up with
Today's monsters. It was something that dad and I build basically from scratch. The total cost for my car was $32k. My dad only planned on spending $25k at the time.
Cool story kid
Damn man, after all that, ur car should've won 😢
thats amazing, great story! unfortunate that u lost the car man
Ah yes the classic “we are going to shut down all local race tracks and then be confused by the increase of street races”
There’s no increase. NY has been the heart of street racing for decades. Fast and furious was based off of NY racing scene. Dominic Toretto is a real person. And his wife Letty, their story were taken from a real couple in New York. This is nothing new, social media just makes it more visible.
@@vibingwithmonty In New York City, police received more than 1,000 street racing complaints during a six-month period in 2020, a 500% increase from that same time period in 2019 - google
maybe people just complain more than they used to@@Umar-gw6fy
@@Umar-gw6fy If you used your brain, you would realize that during this time, 80% of drag strips in new york did not shut down. The increase is because of social media clout.
More arrests more profits
I think its a symptom of a bigger problem. Cities being more crowded than ever, and paychecks, even for the richest of the middle class, being tighter than ever, at this point in American history, if you want any free time and disposable income, you either have to be a millionaire, or homeless. It's worse than ever with social media, nowadays that's everyone's only hobby, glued to their phones. It seems like all anyone does is wake up, phone, work, phone, bar, phone, sleep. Nobody lives for anything, and if you have any hobby that's mildly dangerous, good luck finding a place to explore it. There's no freedom, so no wonder taking over the streets and carving their names into the earth with tire marks, is the only thing these young kids have to look forward to.
Stay safe out there.
lol sure professor Bernstein… The problem is a collapsing empire. Unfettered Third World immigration turns anywhere into the Third World, this isn’t magic soil, people don’t magically change when they get here. This is the decline; floods of Third World detritus with zero respect for civilization coupled with the tail end of expendable income and this is what you get.
I sort of resonate with how you feel. I feel like we live in a weird age where no one really seems to have money, however conversely everyone seems to have loads of credit to take out loans to finance their bad decisions. Gen Z have come to terms they will never really own anything meaningful like a house or family. The only thing they can try to find meaning in is being famous.
Coincidentally I feel like this is a repeat of the 1920s, but 100 years later. Everyone has easy financing and society is focused on trying to satiate their hedonistic desires before the inevitable financial downturn.
Takeovers are not a form of street racing regardless what that last trash af need for speed game would have you believe.
@RealAnthonyJones LOL yeah I get what you're saying but you know what I mean, there's so little that the average person can do nowadays, that they'd rather commit crimes and risk their lives just for an inch of fun or some clout.
@@1whospeaksyep. Even going to nightclubs to socialize isn’t fun anymore. Very expensive. No one actually dances. Everyone is ready to film your ‘reaction’ to the slightest interaction. Also odd Male female gender dynamics currently going on too. Everyone on edge or instantly offended. Social interactions are extremely difficult so their car becomes their entertainment, so now they want a more entertaining car…performance…racing…now getting social attention and it becomes addictive…seek higher high…run cops…..
Used to live less than 10 minutes from island dragway in New Jersey. Being in high school in the early 2000s I loved it. People in town in those days knew it was just a part of living in that area and had little to no issues with it. People nowadays just complain about everything. Sad times..
Island Dragway still alive and well thank god! Only strip left in jersey😢
It’s the property developers wanting more profits. Every generation sees the next as overly sensitive, but that perception is manufactured to divide us.
The ending was just perfect Bro😂. This whole thing was perfect. This video was needed. It’s really a whole different generation of car culture nowadays. Love from 🗽
“signing on the dotted line for a high interest rate loan on a used bmw” 😂 low blow.
great video
BMW is the worst car brand ever made.
They break down easily and cost $$$ to repair.
Avoid it at all costs.
@@chefgiovanni it aint 2005 anymore b58 the most reliable car on the market for the hp numbers
You forgot island dragway! It is the last functional drag strip left in New Jersey, racers also famously went to old bridge township raceway park in that era as well.
My go to track until I moved down South a few months ago. Island is the best.
Man I miss raceway park
i miss E town
i never new there was a road/bridge across all of lake Michigan into IL that's impressive
Raceway park atleast has Formula Drift now
That clip with the taxi totally blocked the cop to let the racer gain a gap
Unsung hero
i dont even think so lol. nyc cabbies are actually braindead.
seansean is one of the best drivers in the scene but that was his craziest chase. its up on yt
@@parsatayebiit wasn't Sean Sean it was a subscriber. And Sean Sean is ass. Float gapped him
He wasn’t paying attention, no situational awareness
@@parsatayebi better than wheres981 ? dont know him for the moment, will check !
Never thought my fox would end up in s 337 speed video! You just inspired me to make more videos of it!
That setup is killer man, definitely want to see more of it🔥🔥🔥
@337speed thank you! Ill post aome more short videos of it here and there i just got a new motor in it and have been enjoying driving it again
your fox looks so badass!!
Post more bro post more
yo nice ass fox
FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY! I’m not a street racer but I have a 540i xDrive G30 stock b58. This yacht MOVES. And I haven’t even tuned it yet
Everything is fine when not kill you or others
I remember my dad taking to see the races when I was a kid. NYC racing scene back in the days was legendary.
Pretty sad to see the state of race tracks now. Rare to see one within an hour of a metropolitan area. Even historic racetracks like Laguna Seca are getting heat from communities. They don’t know what they are destroying.
Even if they knew the history of Laguna Seca, I doubt they would care.
It's just an endless cycle of stupidity. People complain about illegal street racing, drivers flock to race tracks, houses get made around race tracks, people complain about the loud noises on the race tracks, race tracks get shut down, people complain about illegal street racing.
Son, I’m one of those people who lives near Laguna. I promise your mouth would be singing a different tune if the value of your house went down over 100k due to the constant shitbox exhaust notes. Track days are fun but living near one is annoying. But with such short sightedness, I doubt you’ll ever get to step foot in an house like mine…honestly.
Son, I’m one of those people who lives near Laguna. I promise your mouth would be singing a different tune if the value of your house went down over 100k due to the constant shitbox exhaust notes. Track days are fun but living near one is annoying. But with such short sightedness, I doubt you’ll ever get to step foot in an house like mine…honestly.
Son, I’m one of those people who lives near Laguna. I promise your mouth would be singing a different tune if the value of your house went down over 100k due to the constant shitbox exhaust notes. Track days are fun but living near one is annoying. But with such short sightedness, I doubt you’ll ever get to step foot in an house like mine…honestly.
It broke my heart as a 2000s baby when ATCO announced its permanent closing last year
Wait what??? Damn I went there last 2 summers ago. I didn’t know they were shutting that down too 🤦♂️
I think Raceway Park shutting down drag racing hurt more....
Didn't even announce they did a rotary/ latin tuner event and closed down for good right after.
The "cutting up" epidemic has to be a contender against Takeovers for the #1 spot as the worst of the car community.
Also people who complain about living next to a race track are THE most dense people to have a conversation with.
Absolutely the takeover and cutting up scene in nyc is absolutely insane. All the youth seeing this wanna go out and replicate exactly that then crash
NOT car community in my eyes, just idiots that happen to have cars way too powerful for their puny little smooth brains to handle
@@saltysweatyhandscutting up is so dumb. I mean weve all at some point kind of moved faster than traffic to get to work but cutting for fun and risk is so useless 😊
@@onehundredpicks5531who said anything about it being useful? It’s fun, doesn’t need to have a reason for people to do it anyways
Also takeover is incredibly worse than cutting up. Takeover stops a whole intersection, almost always have people badly injured and/or murdered + robbed on the spot. Not including stolen cars and shit
The end “you don’t got it and you’ll probably mack” 😂
How have I missed your channel for so long? Love your content and your mello vocal delivery. So informative, entertaining and refreshing.
The saddest part of this whole thing is the local 1/4 mile tracks closing down.
Finally someone talks about the track closures and it’s impact on street racing. Thank you. Great vid. Hunts Points back in the days was a movie. Dope scene
NY is just 40i bmws with downpipes and a tune
Hey, it’s also occasionally a single turbo 35i
@@knifedance2402 true or a vr30. Im pre sure 1stock started wuth a n55 335i. Reef has that 2j swapped 335i aswell.
Not true, nyc has some of the craziest builds, we just dont flex, thats like saying cali is just all exotic cars
@@trapgodnah9022 most the popular drag builds are bmws in ny. Cali got lowriders, a big jdm scene in SoCal, Muscle, pre much everything. Only part you could say is mainly exotic is Hollywood and the hills. I'm just talking about the NY drag racing and ig community in general as of right now.
@@Ethan-fj7kt i don’t think you can comprehend, i compared your statement to someone saying “all cali has is exotics” because Nyc has way more crazy builds than bmw’s, we have jdm scene, and huge muscle car scene, and a exotic scene
your explanations to how the tracks closed because of land development hit close to home for me. i live in south florida and my nearest track closed in 2023 to build a walmart distribution center. the track closed was PBIR in palm beach,fl. now my closeest is 3 hours north to orlando or 3 hours south to homestead.
The last sentence of this video was priceless “if you see a wheres981 or seansean video don’t replicate it because you don’t got it and you’ll probably mack” 😂😂😂
11:15 "Thanks to the most active units called the Community Response Teams which are plained clothes officers in Polos and khakis who drive unmarked cars which are mostly blacked out Ford Taurus's"
Suspects : *"Write that down, write that down"* ✍️😂
Blacked Out Taurus with TLC plates
Hahahaha I thought I was the only in they peeps that valuable info 🎉🎉🎉
@@sajsed2 They have the mustang mach-e unmarked, they have unmarked Honda accord and oddeseys, unmarked r/t,sxt Chargers, Hyundai elentra and sonatas and more i haven't seen lol, its hard to tell sometimes i look for lights in the grill or dash/rear window or bullet proof doors
@@sajsed2 used to be much easier they almost always had an orange E-z pass on the windshield or a bunch of antennas on the truck lol
@@prentaldvisory680 its Easier to notice the big ass monoblock armored wheels, tinted front windshield and in general a blacked out taurus than having to read the plate
For years, San Diego PD helped sponsor an 1/8th mile drags at Qualcomm Stadium in a very successful effort to keep racers off the streets. But when the Padres moved downtown, the Chargers raked the city over a barrel and then bailed for LA and the city stopped investing in the property, the entire thing was torn down - and that was the end of our street-legal racing program. There needs to be more things like this.
One other factor you didn't mention: the populatity of Street Outlaws on Discovery.
Much more organization in the car community in the race legal days. All the takeover stuff started up almost immediately after they shut it down
I remember going to one of those events with my father, I might've been 9 or 10 years old at the time. It was certainly fun for me to experience that, hadn't thought about that event in years. Thanks for unlocking a childhood memory
This is one of the best video clips capturing this phenomenon in the car culture, great job 337 SPEED.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Maaan it's a damn good feeling seeing the Q50 get some love in this video, its such a good entry faster car and I didn't even do bolt ons yet
Same I wasn’t even aware how people use them when I first got it , now people flash there beams when they wanna swim :/
The dude in the cayman is definitely one I watch. That’s more of what I’m into is the cornering cutting it up and dodging pot holes.
You mean the dude with a profile picture of a cat with a croc on its head lol
@@beeruwu maybe
As a former Flatlands attendee, it must be said that kids are always going to do wild stuff, but when you limit the opportunity for adults to do things legally, they're gonna race on the street. Motorcycles...Lloyd Bayley (RIP) was the king of the pkwys and once he had the opportunity to race at Pocono, Summit Point, and NJMSP, he didnt have the need to race on the parkways anymore. People need a place to race their vehicles. If not, they'll just race em anywhere.
Fountain Ave as well ? 👀
@@kampoutkid of course, then up to Hunts Point. That was the Sunday routine. 🤣🤣
Whats 'pkwys'?
So New York forcing the closure of drag ships is mainly the reason.
Noted.
Well Done New York. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Nj as well. whole nyc/nj cutting up in traffic and drag racing
@@fixiotreeshin5809 they really made it bad for themselves. 🤦🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
Strip away Safe and enclosed environment to do these activities and now every other civilian on the road has to suffer because of it. Sadly really. 👎🏿
Has nothing to do with that, New York City never had race tracks, it’s all internet clout and lack of police enforcement.
@@Where2bub There was quite a few dots connected like it was a child playign a connect the dot color book. It was an amusing watch though ahahha.
@@fixiotreeshin5809 nah, don't confuse swimming through NPC's camping in the passing lane with drag racing. drag racing has a start and end point. not even remotely associated.
The millisecond I see an upload from 337, I click on them without thinking twice.
Absolutely
weird but ok
😂😂😂 facts
impossible, fastest human reaction is above 100ms
When I heard the news of 1stock🕊 I instantly thought of this video.
read insurance policy "...not covered if street racing -- be it planned or spontaneous..." that chilled me out
yes urban sprawl killed track days. CLEETUS MCFARLAND
People moving next to race tracks and then complaining about the noise will never not amuse and infuriate me. It's not just drag strips either, people started building homes on the ridge around Lime Rock Park and complaining about the noise there too. It's not like Lime Rock is new, it's been a Le Mans staple for decades
Gonna be real upset if they get lime rock, one of the oldest tracks in the country with a rich history. Been spectating a driving there for a while now
Another great video, well said!
The message (/ innuendo) was fitting..
"You aint got it.."
9:19 i am in walking distance too this location lol i can hear it from my house at night
i got started street racing in new york city like four years ago. had the time of my life.
I’m an enormous fan of this video and this problem existing
I don’t like that it is a problem, I don’t like that people can get hurt racing off/outside a track, without regulations and requirements for safety.
On the flip side. If the govt and private industry are going to take away rights and freedoms- tell them to fuck off and have the fun anyway. I like that.
I like knowing that the racing scene survived, and I like knowing that they don’t quit despite pressure from law enforcement.
I wish there was a healthier way to outlet this desire to go fast, but as soon as you start losing your freedoms, fight back for the sake of it. Great video. I hope these guys get away from cops nonstop
They could fix the drag racing by letting those spaces continue to exist, and supporting them.
They could fix people weaving through traffic by simply enforcing the passing lane laws already on the books.
Impossible to weave through traffic if lanes are used correctly.
@@niallk9336Exactly
I said it once and i'll say it again. Bring back tracks and drag strips and this problem will go away!!
This channel is going to blow up. The way you cover topics in a clear and concise way while still being interesting is amazing. And the production value is top notch!
I love all your videos. This video and the one about swimming was on point. ❤
VR30 respect is appreciated 🙏🏿
Thank you 337speed for doing the research and being culturally and factually correct
That was 1 hell of a documentary!
The OG of New York street racing vids is here 🙌
OG !!
8:58 1stock 🙏
I’m watching your videos over. I can’t wait for the next one!
I got caught in sudden traffic on the Hutch at midnight only to find it was street racers blocking the road to stage a race. I was 3 cars behind them. I gotta admit, it was pretty awesome. But those cars were WAY too fast for that bumpy section by the arched bridge at 95.
I wish they wouldn't block traffic though
@@fishyinnadurag610Good point, I agree. I was driving down from New Hampshire after a long-ass day of work and as cool as it was, I was definitely in the mood to just get to Manhattan and get some damned sleep.
@@ginsunh Selfish people slowed down traffic and risked the lives of other people. That isn't awesome- it's antisocial and inconsiderate. We live in a society, and we need to call these people out. Life is not a fast and furious movie. People need to get to work. People with families share these roads.
@@johnnyronkonkoma5388ngl, that's the lamest thing i've ever heard.
@@gang-yc4je Why is it lame? Because I think there should be consideration for the rights of other people?
This was well put together, great video !
Means a lot coming from one of my favorite podcasts🙏🏽🔥
The BMW F body performance envelope you speak of is strictly due to the advent of the B58 and most of them are xDrive (AWD) variants hence the launch performance.
Most of them maybe in the US. I see more non x drive and lower spec variants like 18 or 20
This channel is great! I love how its presented. Well depthed knowledge, great presentation styles, thorough but not dry. Thank you!
@337speed loving your channel bro. Don't know how this just popped up in my feed all of a sudden, but I've binge watched like 10 vids so far!
I don't know if you cover things outside the US but you should really dig into street racing in the middle east. In countries like Iraq the police don't come out past midnight so getting a race going is as simple as going up behind a car you wanna race and just repeatedly flashing your lights at them for a second till they join you. I swear I've seen basic bmw 328i's and ford explorer suv's absolutely hammering it down the highways and going sideways.
It's also the reason you see those videos of tuned toyota hilux's with V8's and 2J's letting it rip on the highways and those saudis doing those crazy slides in FWD economy cars like toyota camrys (the official name for it is 'hajwala').
Congrats: I've seen some videos, but this weekend, you've made me deep dive into Arabian street racing.
On tomorrow's episode of saudis in audis, we dive deep into the purpose built ttrs ...
Jokes aside ive seen some middle eastern videos where they swap a full gtr drivetrain, throw on big turbos and a tune, into some unsuspecting little toyota or small suzuki suv.
Then have a 0-60 in 3 second suv that can run with most supercars.
I wish that they would have an hour or even just a 30 minute period in the us where you could race and not be pursued.
That would be...very nice.
Sadly, despite how brainwashed people are here, we have very little freedom left compared to what our forefathers had.
Cant have a racetrack, if someone just doesn't like it, itll get shut down lol.
Cant say your opinion or even feel liks you know what you believe in without it offending people.
Cant ride a motorcycle without every other peraon you meet having ti come up to you and tell you not to ans how youre "risking other peoples lives".
Whatever that even means...
Things arent at all like they were when my grandparents were alive and its just getting worse as the next moody no value generation pushes every single possible hobby out of existence so we can be left with only going to movies, eating, and drugs.
How...stress relieving 😂
Oh yay.
I never knew that like damn
As usual, 10/10 video. Super fascinating.
Wow, thanks!
😎😎😎👍
Even if they get your license plate they still have to prove it was you driving the car at that specific time. Even if they arrest and charge you it will take months and possibly years to prosecute due to the backlogs in the legal system. Most of these cases are dropped as the DA and the Mayors office are more focused on Violent offenses in NYC.
Not if they wrap themselves around a pole before then
In Europe the person who's in the registration / insurance would get charged, doesn't matter if they drove or not.
That's a bad system@@GoodOlTazzy
@@FedoraSnatcher it's not. It holds people accountable. Don't share your car with shady people or someone you can't trust and you won't have any issues.
If you want to stop the illegal drag racing STOP CLOSING DRAG STRIPS across the UNITED STATES. 🤷🏾
Last line is essential and key 🗝
Great video! You should cover the motorcycle street racers next. Keep up the good work Bro!
Cities in the 60s: “Quit racing on the street. Take it to a track.”
Cities in the 20s: “You can’t have that racetrack here anymore. It’s too loud.”
I thought this was news anchor at first, talking about the "Street racing epidemic". But as I got deeper into the video and more stats started getting spat out I was like , "wait wait wait... This anchor knows a little too much about cars. Who IS this guy?" Then I realized it was dedicated car channel. 😆 Am I the only one who had this first reaction?
LMAO I was thinking the exact same!
No, I know this channel well
RIP 1STOCK 🕊️
Speeeed hope this pause on videos is because you’re cooking up a banger😅😅😅
Exactly what I’m doing
@@337speed you’re a great man🫡
I feel like most land developers are like crappy parents. They think that their kids’ problems can be solved by taking away what was keeping the problem from getting bigger.
They are greedy. Once they get their sale/money, they leave and repeat elsewhere without a second thought
ATL is on its way to becoming NYC also. Trooper just lost his life chasing a bike. And it was for speeding
The trooper is an idiot lol
He didn’t have it and he macked?
@@RealAnthonyJones yep lost control and hit some trees
DTX and HTX are well on their way too.
Especially Dallas
Man i dont see how you would would even think to play with GSP on anything other than a bike .
BMWs blew up over there lately
Relatively cheap and lots of parts. Dp and tune and you’re keeping up with a lot on the street lol
@@G37.fbos is about all that’s cheap. Anything that goes wrong will cost a very large price my guy
@@2seepI mean it makes sense mate, 10s car => maintenance cost of a 10s car.
While this is a very big issue in places like NY, this is a problem accross america, and for all the same reasons. There is no outlet for these things anymore. The closest race track to kansas city, which was 1:30 away, heartland motorpark, got shut down because the owner couldnt afford the taxes with the city developing around it. Now the closest park is roughly 4 hours away in ozarks of missouri. So to the streets we go
This is such nonsense. There are private tracks all across the country. The moral of the story is, like everything else, you have to pay for it.
The real issue is that these children have no good parenting, and no prospects for their future other than internet fame or infamy.
If you can’t afford the track, then you probably should just get a better career so that you can down the road.
@@jakel9030 you clearly don't live in the Midwest buddy.
@@haetfull thank god I don’t. I live in the great state of Texas, where all the land is private.
Either way, there are definitely tracks, and having to drive a couple hours is what I have to do as well. It doesn’t give you the right to drive like this.
I drive fast, I have numerous fast and dangerous cars. This is unacceptable behavior, even for teenagers.
Grow up get a career and build your own track is you want to. You can get one built for about a million that’s around a mile long. It’s not that much money, and if you want to be acting like this, the reality is that it’s expensive all around. It’s not a poor man’s hobby.
Tires, breaks and other maintenance are all very expensive for a car that is tracked or driven as if it were on a track.
I just saw you took footage from Drive in PR. Those puerto ricans are crazy!
HONEY, New 337Speed vid dropped🔥
If you drive passed 10pm on any NYC highway for more than 15 mins you'll see a couple of small groups zooming through traffic going 100+.
Hope it gets worse tbh. Hate driving 2+ hours for track days. You got areas like floyd bennet field in brooklyn that are basically wasted space. Would make a perfect spot for a drag strip or even a racetrack.
Yup. & they take Floyd Bennett & make it a migrant shelter 😂 perfect place for a 1/8 or 1/4 drag or auto cross day.
I love it when people zoom past me at 100 it's so fun to see
My mom, who is in her fifties and not a good driver, is usually driving around this area at this time , getting home from work. I am just scared for her. I hope she is safe. If any street racers who see this ever see a red Tesla model y, please slowdown to pass them.
Bruh this hits harder than most of the comments under this vid. Half of Great Britain's best race tracks were ring roads built around old WW2 airbases. Croft, Goodwood, Thruxton, Silverstone....airstrips are just free fucking real estate. We could have Race Wars up there _right now._ Good luck having a street racing problem then.
(EDIT: Alexkraftracing mentioned the airstrip at Calverton being turned into a drag strip, so this MIGHT catch on.)
Love this channel props to 337
Man I love this guy, glad he's back
I read « glad he’s black » my brain froze for a sec lmao
1stock's builds are badass, his recent M240i has been going 100-200 in less than half the time shown for the already fast tuned 340i.
bae wake up, 337 posted
Fountain Avenue was notorious!
Thats my strip ahh😂
@@KloseDatBaxkdoor lol
Hunts point!!!!
RIP Atco Dragway. It was recently suddenly shut down after being there even before i moved in when I was a kid. I don't know the real reason but it's sad to see it go....
As someone who is born and raised in new york I've been to a few of these places like Hunts point which people just call it HP nowadays or on main the highways we still have some drag races, but actually seeing these pictures from Polaroids and knowing where these pictures are taken like a picture under the major Deegan (which is a highway) or even one that seems to be by the waterfront near Inwood it shows the the history of NY. And what it was before my birth. Thanks 337 I've found new appreciation to my state and it's history
Moral of the story: race tracks save lives
legendary video, also W cream team!
Sucks that Moroso Raceway/ Palm Beach International Speedway is gone. The street racing here in South Florida has gotten worse since.
We all love driving fast at some point💯
Go to track days.
@@thekeithbutts Man, i live in the Netherlands, but the only tracks we got here put you in to a barrier with the smallest of mistakes, they cost a ton and there aren't many track days, financially it's just so much cheaper to go on the streets and there is less of a chance of wrecking your car too, there is basically no point
I was just at the track...
The feeling of high boost with out a sardine can traffic is intoxicating.
@@MrTurbo_ yeah but putting other people in danger just because you want to drive fast is absurd!!
Philly street racing was pretty sweet in the early 2000s. Always in the low traffic industrial areas.
Being from the New York area, I’m got my license in 08. had a Trailblazer SS used to look for races pretty much anywhere. This video is very on point when talking about the m340s it started back then with the 335.
I’ve heard family stories about the many races they had back in the day, from some even witnessing people crash after underestimating a turn or pushing their car too hard. Im just happy to know that the car being passed down to me used to be one of the many that were raced, sadly it wasn’t the 4th gen camaro with an ls1 that I saw pictures about but this one is just as good and is my dream car.
That last part 🤣💀 but this video was dope as always 💪🏽
Reminds me of that lotus 4 door sedan that nobody could beat 😂
One of the inspirations for the movie was a Japanese manga and tv series. 4 cylinders 10 second car already existed during the early 80s in the US territory of Puerto Rico. Too bad call those race tracks closed.
1:10 I'm pretty sure that U-Haul wrapped 300 is the same that had a fatal crash recently from takeover type activity.
It was shown later in the video
blud watch the video
Vr30, b58, and q50 prices bouta rise
Glad i got my 340i locked in
Yeah man, that mini me Godzilla motor can pump out the power with some bolt ons, glad that even the base model Z gets that engine!
another amazing video! off topic but i do miss the engines explained series you did. would love to see more of that on occasion in the future. would definitely recommend a sleeper engine like the VW/Audi EA888 motor in the MQB cars like the GTI.
Coming back soon🙏🏽
My boy Sean Sean made it 🫡🫡
Thanks for the update
Awesome editing big w🌡📍❗
Amazing video ! Big up @1stockf30 and other legends who raced in Mexico 🇲🇽 🙌🏽🇯🇲
As a car enthusiast and a fellow New Yorker I’m glad I don’t get involved in street racing unlike some people I know. I understand you may not have a racetrack near where you live but it’s not worth racing on public roads.
Also New York now has a new drag strip that just opened a few years ago. It’s at the Calverton airport on Long Island.