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All you want to know about the Singapore car scene... https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/tanjong-pagar-crash-racing-speeding-rounding-traffic-police-14435890 IN FOCUS: No more need for speed? Singapore's illegal road racing scene fades even as concerns remain After MP Ng Ling Ling asked in Parliament if the Traffic Police would consider stepping up enforcement in light of the fatal, high-speed crash in Tanjong Pagar, CNA investigates the scale of the local speedster scene. SINGAPORE: The windows of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 sports car were rolled down, letting in the acrid fumes of burning rubber and deafening groans of modified exhaust pipes. The Evo roared through the relatively straight thoroughfare that is Stamford Road, well above the speed limit of 50km/h, recalled Adam (not his real name) of that evening in August 2014, when he sat in the front passenger seat. The traffic lights and other vehicles still out and about after midnight meant this kind of speed had to be done in short bursts. But the Evo was just one in a convoy of about 80 performance cars speeding through the streets that make up “Orchard Gudang (OG)”, a roughly 10km-long rectangular “rounding” route that runs from the Orchard shopping district in the west to the Marina Bay area in the east. It is also named after a race track in Pasir Gudang, Johor. There were cars like a Nissan Silvia S14, Subaru WRX STI and Honda Civic Type R on the route, all with a “minimum requirement to be loud and flashy”, said Adam. “Honestly, it was just to drive fast and hard for fun,” he told CNA. “There was no race or challenge.”