Quote From: grgthatsmeAs a teen I did race a couple times - one on one - not the "street racing" thing and won every time.
Later when not much older drove my car from Detroit to Kalamazoo at 140mph to just see if I can do it.
After My first marriage I made a visitation to my daughter in Rapid City SD (from Farmington hills MI) by driving 120mph the entire distance only making "pit stops" for gas. It was invigorating and comfortable.
It certainly kept me awake and alert! Now, older, I think I would not do it again.
You sound like you are bragging about always "winning". Would you feel like you had "won" if something went wrong with your vehicle, you lost control because of it, and killed a little four-year-old girl, taken her right to live out her life, destroyed her family's life, (her parents play it over and over in their minds every day of their lives), just because you wanted to do 120 mph and "win".
That happened to my nephew when he was 17. He was kept out of jail because of expensive lawyers, but something must have been playing out in his mind also, because he has lived the rest of his life as an unhappy drug abuser and alcoholic. He cut himself out of his family's life and spends his time either lying in gutters, drunk, or occasionally working just enough to get money to drink or buy drugs. In short, he has no life: He had an excuse, something went wrong with a wheel on his car and he lost control, But before he lost control on that fateful day, he had "won" many "one on one" races. He always felt invigorated and comfortable driving at extremely high speeds before that fateful day.
Now he drives no longer, he lost his license from multiple dui's. There is no longer money for a car even if he could drive. He never went to jail, but he now lives in his own self-imposed hell.
Those movies the state police have of tragic, maimed, bloody, human beings that are the aftermath of high-speed crashes should be shown as a requisite in every drivers education class, in every school in this country, not just once, but often, throughout a young person's high-school years.
