Should road cars be speed limited?

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Originally Posted by Craiginmackay

Fair call. I see the same thing all the time, as do many others here I am sure.
Here is a question for you. What if the nearest park ( read track) to take your intact Staffy ( read performance car) was 100klm, or 1000klm away? Would you still own a dog? As an animal lover I am sure you would. Just that you would have to let him have his fun a little more discreetly!

While car entuisiasts should keep this kind of thing off the roads, there are parts of Aus where tracks to unleash the beast simply don't exist. Qld with its vast distances is a pretty good example of this. Want to run your performance car/sportsbike around a track? Great in Brissy or the Sunny/Gold coasts. Kinda hard in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay though, as you are at 12-20 hours drive from a track where track days are held.

Now look at Vic and it is the opposite. This state is literally littered with tracks in close proximity. Live in Melbourne and you have access to 4 or 5 within a 200klm radiu.s 99% of the population probably lives within 3 hours of a track, so there really is no excuse to let out some steam in the right place, providing that access is available via a track day company, etc. All that needs to be done here is ensure that the penalties for anti social behaviour are strict enough to encourage everyone to go to a track day instead.

Part of the solution ( one of many that need to be implemented) may just be to providing more parks for you to walk your dog in and let him have a little freedom. Its only a small part of the solution, but one that should be considered. After all, we build skate parks in every town to keep kids amused so that they don't indulge in anti social behaviour. What are we doing for the revheads as a society?

We(as dog owners)have "lobbied" damn hard to get dog parks. There are now 4 within my general area. The council do have this sort of community initiative on their agenda, but sometimes it takes a bit of concerted push from interested parties to actually advance that agenda to fruition.
I also drive over 150 kms regularly(read every couple of weeks) to the leash free beaches of Byron Bay et al, to let him (said dog)unleash a whole mess of energy in the surf. Again, if he carried on in public the same way he does in the park or at the beach, I would have to rethink my reason for having such a high perform....whoops, high energy dog.