Colorado Street Racing Every Sunday night, a tidal wave of cars takes over the streets of Colorado. Many in Colorado have heard the distant roar and tires squealing from the illegal street racing on 6th Ave and I-25. Every Sunday night, I-25 turns into a Fast and Furious movie with hundreds, sometimes up to 1500, street cars meeting and taking over the highway for their own endless dragstrip, going speeds up to 160 miles per hour, according to the Douglas County Lieutenant Paul Rodgers. Many race for wages, from 100 to thousands of dollars, depending on how high the stakes are and what they have under the hood. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office, the Colorado Springs Police Department, and the Fountain Police Department has teamed up with Pikes Peak International Raceway to try and stop the illegal racing on roadways, by providing a track as a legal outlet for racers. If you're caught racing you will be fined hundreds of dollars and you will have several points added to your licence, if not suspended. Law enforcement just can't keep up with the 750-1800 horsepower cars that are using our public roads as a raceway and they know it. So, they are coming at the issue from a different direction giving them a legal way to compete without putting innocent pedestrians in danger. In my opinion, I don't think opening the track on weekend nights will change much, if anything it will be another spot the car meet will stop at through the night. I doubt it's going to decrease the street racing on the highways because it's a different feeling when you’re on the road you take to work going 160 out driving the ‘06 Supercharged Ford Mustang by three car lengths.