"Last year, over 5,000 teenagers died in motor vehicle crashes, the leading killer of American youths aged 16 to 19, accounting for more than 40 percent of fatalities in that age bracket. To reduce this number, Tire Rack Street Survival® has developed a non-profit, national driver education program aimed at teaching teens the skills they need to stay alive behind the wheel."
There's a short 45-second video introduction that gives some idea as to the idea behind Street Survival:
This is a truly phenomenal program that has grown beyond the BMW CCA Foundation and is now backed by other motorsports groups such as the SCCA. While a lot of motorsports is about fun and glory, it's hard not to get excited about saving lives! That's why we are proud to be promoting Street Survival events on our national MotorsportReg.com events calendar.
They will also be included in our monthly calendar blasts which reach several thousand enthusiasts (and parents...) around the country.
If you have a teen or know someone with a teen, a one-day Street Survival course is the best $60 a parent can spend. Take two minutes, right now, and email five parents about this program!
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We finished!
Then things got even trickier. The transmission started to tighten up during Scott's morning stint so he was running only in 4th gear but still making passes and running 2:06s. We had glancing contact with a Corvette that resulted in a bent right rear trailing arm and broken CV joint. I have seen it in the Spec Miata paddock before (more than once...) but when mechanic Nate Walton suggested we use two trucks to tweak the car back into shape, there were a lot of wide-eyed people in our pits. But it worked! While not ideal, I jumped in with 1" of toe out in the right rear and we were back on track. It was terrifying at turn-in, especially at high-speed corners T1 and T8 but kind of fun drifting the car around. Lance took the final shift and brought his baby home to the checkered flag.
4,144 teens aged 16-19 died in automobile accidents in 2006 and almost 400,000 were treated in emergency rooms for crash injuries. I know I was certainly not a great driver at that age as two tickets and two accidents would attest. My parents and I split the cost of my first car, an 89 Chevy Beretta, and the third day I drove it to high school I was ticketed for 48MPH in a 25MPH residential zone. Had the officer not literally first put down his donut to pick up the radar gun, I'm sure my ticket would have been 60+ and my morning would have ended with a reckless speeding ticket instead.
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