How NYC Street Racing Became Unstoppable👮🏻‍♂️| Explained Ep.34 

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This is the longest BMW ad ever😂

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.

"you dont got it and will probably mack" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

lol the shoutout to 981 is legendary

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.

RIP Houston Raceway Park. Everything you said about the tracks closing 100% applied to the closure of that track.

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.

“signing on the dotted line for a high interest rate loan on a used bmw” 😂 low blow. great video

340i prices after this video 📈

Ah yes the classic “we are going to shut down all local race tracks and then be confused by the increase of street races”

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

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 🗽

Bro the end “because you don’t got it and you’ll probably Mack” 😭

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.

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

The end “you don’t got it and you’ll probably mack” 😂

That clip with the taxi totally blocked the cop to let the racer gain a gap

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..

I remember my dad taking to see the races when I was a kid. NYC racing scene back in the days was legendary.

If you want to stop the illegal drag racing STOP CLOSING DRAG STRIPS across the UNITED STATES. 🤷🏾

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"* ✍️😂

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.

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

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.

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 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.

So New York forcing the closure of drag ships is mainly the reason. Noted. Well Done New York. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

NY is just 40i bmws with downpipes and a tune

How have I missed your channel for so long? Love your content and your mello vocal delivery. So informative, entertaining and refreshing.

Speeeed hope this pause on videos is because you’re cooking up a banger😅😅😅

Never thought my fox would end up in s 337 speed video! You just inspired me to make more videos of it!

The saddest part of this whole thing is the local 1/4 mile tracks closing down.

The biggest difference from Deadpool is that Deadpool is a hero and good guy who did not kill innocent people!

My boy Sean Sean made it 🫡🫡

It broke my heart as a 2000s baby when ATCO announced its permanent closing last year

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

1:10 I'm pretty sure that U-Haul wrapped 300 is the same that had a fatal crash recently from takeover type activity.

@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!

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.

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.

This channel is great! I love how its presented. Well depthed knowledge, great presentation styles, thorough but not dry. Thank you!

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.

The millisecond I see an upload from 337, I click on them without thinking twice.

This is one of the best video clips capturing this phenomenon in the car culture, great job 337 SPEED.

Last line is essential and key 🗝

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” 😂😂😂

VR30 respect is appreciated 🙏🏿

I said it once and i'll say it again. Bring back tracks and drag strips and this problem will go away!!

Canada is also turning like this, people build next to racetrack then they complain about the noise and kill the racetrack. Also the cops waiting at the entrance of the racetrack giving tickets to people with modified cars ain't helping the case...

i got started street racing in new york city like four years ago. had the time of my life.

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.

Thank you 337speed for doing the research and being culturally and factually correct

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

No way the freedom factory got a mini shoutout in this video! Love that! Love Cleetus!

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

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.

Moral of the story: race tracks save lives

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

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').

Another great video, well said! The message (/ innuendo) was fitting.. "You aint got it.."

off the bat already love this video because it started out with " maybe its because developers are getting all the tracks shut down" instead of " reckless people putting lives at risk for no reason"

Great video and ending. “You’ll probably mack” is hilarious

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!

That was 1 hell of a documentary!

With the new congestion tolls, thise Ghost Plates gonna become universal.

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?

Truth be told a lot of these idiots aren't racers do not confuse the take over crowd with street racers. Takeovers and street racing are two opposite poles and the media needs to quit trying to portray them as the same thing. As Racers we 100% oppose these takeovers.

Man I love this guy, glad he's back

9:19 i am in walking distance too this location lol i can hear it from my house at night

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.

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.

Crazy how applicable and accurate this is even in the Midwest with Heartland

Street racing needs legal venues, people will not stop modding their sedans and taking it to the limit. If we legalize it and bring safety to it, it would likely do wonders.

As usual, 10/10 video. Super fascinating.

It’s unfortunately a viscous cycle, thank you for the mention!! 😇

Love your content/visuals, one else reporting like this 💯

This was well put together, great video !

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.

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.

If people don’t like the noise of a drag strip they shouldn’t of bought a house near one that simple

ATL is on its way to becoming NYC also. Trooper just lost his life chasing a bike. And it was for speeding

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.”

Thank you for not mentioning the B9 S4 let’s keep them under the radar

8:12 That beamer is registered in Moldova. I am half Moldovan and I didn't even know that we have street races in Moldova. It seems like a lot has changed since I moved to Romania.

As a street racer that got inspired by Sean Sean and wheres981, I’d like to confirm that it takes a high level of skill and you don’t get out of situations easily. You’ve got to have your mind in the game 24/7. Especially where I am in Europe. 90% of the time you’ll either crash or get caught. It’s not worth replicating our lifestyle. It’s dangerous and puts others at risk if you don’t have the skills. Which you don’t. It took me years to perfect my style, I was a racer before I even got a car so it was basically with me naturally to know when or when not to go. I let someone else try and drive my car one time, that one time. My car got wrecked. This wasn’t a driver without skill either. You most likely don’t have what it takes.

Great video! You should cover the motorcycle street racers next. Keep up the good work Bro!

Street racing occurs-> build Drag strip to allow safe racing->urban development happens near drag strip->to many noise complaints->Drag strip closes down-> Street racing occurs. It's literally a Cycle that America and its states continue to perpetuate. How come churches are exempt from income and federal property taxes, but not Drag strips. You wouldn't have as much localized street racing if those tracks weren't shut down🤷‍♂

my hometown 😮‍💨 thanks for helping me learn more bout home, another great video!

Shoutout to 1Stock, ROC NYC, and Three Dirty 5 for putting nyc racing on the map 🔥

bae wake up, 337 posted

I’m watching your videos over. I can’t wait for the next one!

8:12 mark nails today's problem precisely - i mean, aside from the tracks being shut down. Then again, 95% of street idiots don't know when/where to run (safely) or willing to pay track fees.

BMWs blew up over there lately

Vr30, b58, and q50 prices bouta rise Glad i got my 340i locked in

Lmaoo “you don’t got it & you’ll probably mack”

Bro let us know he’s one of us at the end

HONEY, New 337Speed vid dropped🔥

RIP drag strips 😢

Awesome editing big w🌡📍❗