couple of streets up from me is a main(ish) road that used to be busy until they put the freeway in a bit further north of it so at night its pretty much dead, every night i can hear mostly cars lining up and racing, occasionally bikes. does the heart good to hear youthful impetuosity. the side of the road they use is all industrial so less chance of unexpected cars popping out of a driveway
just very occasionally you'll hear something very serious fire up ( as opposed to approach in traffic ) and pull what would be a 7 or 8 second quarter on the strip, it'll immediately shut down and disappear. i'm guessing its some proper race guys using the road as a test strip and they have the trailer already parked at the other end