This is an interesting movie that gives an inside look at the struggle between the world of sports car enthusiasts and southern California politicians. What I got from this is that there is a never-ending cycle of the following: Racing on the streets, someone gets hurt, people open a drag strip to solve it. Drag strip gets shut down for various reasons, people go back to the street and someone gets hurt again, another strip opens, and so forth.
There is a struggle there to get a drag strip to be opened and stay open due to the constant growth of socal - drag strips are loud and people don't want them in residential areas, industrial parks pop up and want the land for mining, resources, etc - something always happens that shuts the strip down.
It doesn't really cover much about the attempt to create a permanent drag strip except for one session with San Diego gov't where they basically turn it down because "racing is a dangerous sport and a city shouldn't endorse something that can hurt their citizens - be it a sport or not."
The whole issue in my opinion is directly related to population density and most negative connotations associated with performance vehicles as portrayed by this film don't apply across the board - only to those areas where the density is so great that chances of someone getting hurt are increased drastically. In rural and less populated areas, (the film doesn't really cover this) the issues presented don't apply. Overall, this is a long but good movie with excellent editing and informative interviews that should be seen by anyone who enjoys sports cars.
http://www.1320movie.com (this video was provided free of charge by 1320 for me to review)
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