looks like it went over YOUR head K. You used a poor example of F1 drivers and pilots... all of which are governed more and have more access to their own playgrounds then everyone else and THAT IS THE POINT. Think of a better example and then state it because no matter what you say regarding those two is not going to work.
Like i said... F1 drivers and Pilots not only have plenty of space to do their own thing but they are governed by far stricter laws, testing and regulations that apart from extremist muslims and any other kind of terrorists your hardly going to see pilots causing major incidents and even if they did decide to show off its not like theres a whole lot of traffic or pedestrians in the air is there?
So lets move on from that little comparison.
And oh yes its as simple as buying a block of land and doing it away from houses... wtf? it costs around $20m dollars according to the government to build a track (im sure its exagerated but i doubt it would be much less to make a diff)... theres no point building a purely dedicated drag strip... why not revamp sandown, put 10m into creating a drag/drift circuit in it... something.
i hardly think raising that money through a bloody bake sale or fundraiser and a few crummy sponsors is going to do it... unless you want a 1000sqm drag strip to do nothing but 0-50kmh on.
Its not something to be looked at to save or make money, its to help stop the behaviour we are seeing on the streets... whether or not you think it would work or not is irrelevant.
The government should at least try and do something rather then sitting on their arse and creating more totalitarian laws to give the police the power to take peoples cars on a whim. That will stop it... riiight.