Daily News | A look at drag racing and car meetups in Philadelphia
near Penn’s Landing. Troopers said they’d found vehicles and onlookers blocking the highway, with cars doing tricks like burnouts and drifting.
Four people got into a car and struck two troopers, state police said, and one of the troopers fired a shot into the car and killed Allegrini, whom they said was driving the car. Videos on social media showed a man collapsed on the highway after the shooting, but state police declined to say Monday if that person was Allegrini or how he would have gotten there if he was shot while he was in the car.Defining terms: What are burnouts, drifting and doughnuts?using their brakes and revving their engine in a way that makes the rear tires spinout while the car remains still. The result is smoky, squealing burnt rubber.
To drift, drivers intentionally oversteer their vehicles at a high speed so the car slides sideways while the driver remains in control. There are professional championships for drifting thatDoughnuts are sort of a combo of the two, where driversDrag racing and meetups typically happen on weekend nights into the early hours of the morning, according to news reports covering multiple instances of meetups in Philadelphia.
Meetups happen all around the city, from North to South Philadelphia, Southwest to the Northeast. One former drag racing enthusiast told The Inquirer he and his crew used to gather in Southwest Philly, on Enterprise Avenue behind the Philadelphia International Airport, or on Holstein Avenue or 61st Street.in Port Richmond.
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