# Mr.Stance : Midnight club was created in 1987 to remove the dangerous bosozoku gangs from the Japanese highways, because normally there were more than 100 bosozoku gang riders and they will vandalize innocent people and driving risky putting in danger at the drivers that were driving in the highway, and the idea of ​​the creators of midnight club is to run at extreme speeds to frighten and annoy the bosozoku for taking them away of the highways , protecting the drivers that were in the highways, and they had certain rules, such as that the cars had to overcome the 250kmh since they normally ran above 290 or 300, some were faster, and the new members had to go to all the meetings for a year if I am not mistaken, and if one of the members caused an accident or a problem, he was expelled. It was known for being the crew with the best drivers who had rules of protection for the pedestrians, because if the club was directly or indirectly involved in an accident that causes deaths in innocent people would cause its dissolution.

One of the most common things for them is that if they saw a car with a midnight club sticker that is not a member, they vandalized it to the point of destroying it and burning it ...

Everything was going very well for the crew, until at 3am on a Friday night in 1999, a member of Bosozoku was driving recklessly down the Wangan, while the scared drivers of motorcars were swerving out of his way. The Mid Night Club just happened to be racing in this area, and while I have caught up to them, they blinked their lights, unbeknown to the fact that the rider of the motorcycle was in fact drunk.

As they proceeded to race through the traffic, in excess of 160 miles per hour, the Bosozoku rider lost control, and hit a motorist, it culminated in a huge chain-crash. The motorist crashed into the barricade, dying instantly. The Mid Night Club racers slowed down, and noticed that the Bosozoku rider was also in fact dead. 8 motorists were hospitalized, 6 of them being innocent drivers on the highway.

Due to the policy that the Mid Night Club had organized at their start up, the group disbanded. Their rule was simple, if anyone was to die during the existence of the club, whether a racer, or a motorist, or if it was indirect or directly the clubs fault, they would disband, and that they did.

If that accident had not happened in the same way the crew would have dissolved, as bosozoku gangs were falling and disappearing cuz the police was behind them and the purpose of midnight club was to annoy the bosozoku and remove them from the highways to keep drivers safe from their attacks, and if there are no bosozoku gangs, the crew would be without any purpose, besides the police began to be more involved in the illegal races, so in one way or another, midnight club would have dissolved.

The history of midnight club is really interesting and shows stories of what was the golden age of wangan racing in the decade of the 90s ...

I would recommend that you investigate what was midnight club, it is a nice way to see what were the bases and principles of the wangan races and why they were created, besides the history of midnight club is very interesting, since it is an important piece of automotive culture in Japan, There are even some videos on youtube if you find any, I would be directly impressed with the cars that ran wangan races, It is really interesting, I recommend you investigate about them, you will like it!

Wow , it's really nice to know the whole story of what happened to the MidNight guys. Thank you for going out of your way to write all of that ! I will definitely have to check some more things out on that ! Ahh , I wish I could time travel back to the '90 to experience the golden age of wangan racing. Either way , thank you for telling me the story !