Tragic Accident For Dragster Youth

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A Canuck with a different opinion...My 14-year-old daughter will be learning to drive next spring, that worries me a fair amount. But drag racing at HALF that age? That's a totally different risk ballpark. I would think if you're not permitted to drive until you're 14 (here in Canada anyway), why the hell are you allowed to drag race?

Check the rules in that class, and you will see the limitations. We took our Granddaughter to our acreage when she was coming 13 and had her practice to be prepared for Junior Street. She paid very close attention. Went to the track and was tested. Raced with a parent until she turned 16. She won JR. Street 2 out of 3 years. Ended up beating all of her peers that had been racing in Jr. Dragster 5 years before she raced.
One reason they might be, it is a sanctioned track that is monitored/controlled by a body.

 

[RemCharger]

Check the rules in that class, and you will see the limitations. We took our Granddaughter to our acreage when she was coming 13 and had her practice to be prepared for Junior Street. She paid very close attention. Went to the track and was tested. Raced with a parent until she turned 16. She won JR. Street 2 out of 3 years. Ended up beating all of her peers that had been racing in Jr. Dragster 5 years before she raced.
One reason they might be, it is a sanctioned track that is monitored/controlled by a body.

Correction; she won 3 out of 3 yrs.

 

[moparedtn]

A Canuck with a different opinion...My 14-year-old daughter will be learning to drive next spring, that worries me a fair amount. But drag racing at HALF that age? That's a totally different risk ballpark. I would think if you're not permitted to drive until you're 14 (here in Canada anyway), why the hell are you allowed to drag race?

A Vol with yet another one, then - how many of us learned how to operate motorized vehicles (dirt bikes, go karts, ATV's etc.) years before we were legally able to drive on the streets?

 

[OneWheelPeel]

I was going to bring up go-karts too. Kids everywhere are set loose on those,I was one of them. I had some close calls but was lucky. I won’t throw shade at the parents who are going through hell now or call them silly things like narcissists.