- SUPERCARS RACING ON HIGHWAY DRIVERS
- SUPERCARS RACING ON HIGHWAY DRIVER
- SUPERCARS RACING ON HIGHWAY WINDOWS
Multiple cars would gather at these locations to watch the race, with spotters looking out for the Traffic Police (TP).īut the insiders said the scene has been fading in the past few years as a result of tougher enforcement by the police and the prevalence of dashboard cameras, with footage of reckless driving posted on online traffic vigilante groups attracting fierce backlash. Racing typically involved a drag competition between two performance cars on a straight and deserted road, usually in Lim Chu Kang, Seletar or Tuas. Performance cars would gather at a large car park like the one on Seah Im Road, before speeding to a destination at another end of the island, like Changi Airport or the East Coast Park car park located furthest east. Rounding usually involved driving fast in a group along a pre-determined route via expressways. READ: 4 cases of illegal speed trials from 2018 to 2020 31 arrested: MHA Their anecdotes about events that have taken place in the past are supported by photos and videos, as well as publicly available accounts and news reports on these activities. This kind of event, which has also happened on the eve of Chinese New Year, has been just one part of the speedster scene in Singapore, which has comprised racing and so-called "rounding" during the wee hours at different hotspots across the island, insiders familiar with the scene told CNA.
SUPERCARS RACING ON HIGHWAY DRIVER
He later heard that the driver escaped unscathed. The driver understeered and crashed into a traffic light, Adam said. But the Volkswagen Scirocco behind was not as lucky. The Evo that Adam was in, equipped with high-performance tires and brakes, managed to follow suit. Taking their cue, the cars ahead hit their brakes and made a sharp left onto Hill Street.
SUPERCARS RACING ON HIGHWAY DRIVERS
The drivers knew they had to avoid these roadblocks as some of their cars had been illegally modified. There could be hundreds of cars speeding through Orchard Gudang on that day, Adam said.Īs the Evo approached the tunnel under Fort Canning Hill, Adam established from a group chat that a police roadblock was up ahead after the tunnel.
The occasion was the eve of National Day, also known as “0808” or “ ba yue ba hao” as the drivers liked to call it, an annual informal event where drivers of such cars take to the streets to experience the joy and adrenaline rush of going fast in a group. “Honestly, it was just to drive fast and hard for fun,” he told CNA. There were cars like a Nissan Silvia S14, Subaru WRX STI and Honda Civic Type R on the route, all with a “minimum requirement to be loud and flashy”, said Adam. It is also named after a race track in Pasir Gudang, Johor.
The traffic lights and other vehicles still out and about after midnight meant this kind of speed had to be done in short bursts.īut the Evo was just one in a convoy of about 80 performance cars speeding through the streets that make up “Orchard Gudang (OG)”, a roughly 10km-long rectangular “rounding” route that runs from the Orchard shopping district in the west to the Marina Bay area in the east. The Evo roared through the relatively straight thoroughfare that is Stamford Road, well above the speed limit of 50km/h, recalled Adam (not his real name) of that evening in August 2014, when he sat in the front passenger seat.
SUPERCARS RACING ON HIGHWAY WINDOWS
SINGAPORE: The windows of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 sports car were rolled down, letting in the acrid fumes of burning rubber and deafening groans of modified exhaust pipes.
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