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A revived Canberra dragway could help reduce street racing, hooning, advocate says

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January 17 2021 - 4:30am
Would a drag strip reduce hoon activity on Canberra's streets? Geoff Develin, pictured with the lights from the Canberra International Dragway he helped run in the 1990s, thinks so. Picture Elesa Kurtz
Would a drag strip reduce hoon activity on Canberra's streets? Geoff Develin, pictured with the lights from the Canberra International Dragway he helped run in the 1990s, thinks so. Picture Elesa Kurtz

Geoff Develin was drag racing at weekends and working in ACT Fire and Rescue, cutting badly injured young drivers out of the wreckage of their modified cars, when the scale of Canberra's issue with illegal street and drag racing really hit home.

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