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It's the biggest rush they've ever had and dragsters can't get enough.
Illegal racing is dominating our streets at night, but you may be surprised how easily that problem can be fixed.

"It's crazy your heart beats fast, your hands are shaking."

"There's nothing like going from 0-60 in three seconds."

"Seven days a week we get complaints of reckless driving I mean it's just everyday."

"We line up we've got two cars side by side someone lines you up as even as they can. You race go down the track as fast as you can and see who wins."

For many "the track" translates into some of the busiest streets in Eastern Idaho.

After 10 o'clock hastily marked quarter mile strips along streets like 17th, Hitt, and Woodruff become host to cars traveling up to 100 miles an hour.

"We normally find the people particularly in that are youthful drivers but that's not always the case."

In the city these races don't last long before police or fellow drivers interrupt the action.

"When they come in race is off, we call who ever and tell them pull off pull over you're done for now."

"It's a game of cat and mouse for police trying to catch these racers. The only difference is these guys are armed with high tech police scanners like this one that allow them to get away before police even have a chance."

Especially in rural areas where racers go the whole night without a scare.

"Most of the time we usually just wind up showing up to clean up the mess after they crash."

Cops across the state admit there's no cure for the need to speed.

"A lot of people like to go out and drive fast and that's just a fact of life ever since we've had automobiles."

But police in Boise have been blessed with an antidote they call the Firebird Raceway.

"If you don't give somebody an alternative then they're going to keep doing what they've been doing because you're not giving them any reason why not to."

Over the last 30 years the raceway has been reaching out to teens through track sanctioned grudge races and high school competitions. In return police have noticed a great decrease in illegal street racing incidents.

"One of the kids on my team was speeding down the subdivision so I pulled him over and told him all the tickets I could have written him and I said here's the deal I will warn you on the most serious violations if you agree to come out and be on the drag team, and I haven't had any problems with him since."

That's an option kids in Eastern Idaho haven't had since drag city in Pocatello closed ten years ago.

"If there's something legal that would get us off the road and be safer and we don't have the risk of getting in trouble then absolutely we'd go there."

That's the biggest problem there's just no where to do it so what else are they going to do."

Local racers may have an answer to that problem soon. A local car club is pushing for funding to start a legal track near St. Anthony in response.