Is this Brisbane’s worst street for hooning?

A magistrate has warned hoons caught at this notorious street racing site that they face an automatic 12-month disqualification, with one offender admitting he was paying an even higher price, saying he’d lost his job after his car was impounded.

A magistrate who took a hoon’s licence off him for 12 months has warned other “street racers’’ they faced the same sentence if caught at a notorious Richlands street.

Magistrate Stuart Shearer said Enterprise St, a cul-de-sac in an industrial estate in Brisbane’s southwest, had become the new epicentre for the area’s hoons.

“They migrate from one to another as they’re closed down,’’ Mr Shearer said during his sentencing of Justin Raymond Kevin Brooks.

“This court is consistent in its message on these matters — you will lose your licence for 12 months for a first offence.

“Six months is the minimum, but in my mind it’s not enough.

“The community does not tolerate this offence and that is why the Parliament passed anti-hooning legislation where repeat offenders have their cars crushed.’’

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Richlands Magistrate Court heard Brooks, 28, was caught by police at a street racing gathering where about 100 cars had parked in and around Enterprise St.

A large crowd had gathered beside the road to watch people doing burnouts and “drifting’’.

A police prosecutor said Brooks was seen with several passengers in a black BMW with the engine revving, drifting from side to side within metres of an electrical transformer.

The court heard that when Brooks was intercepted by police, he admitted he was the driver, said it was a stupid thing to have done and that he would not do it again.

Brooks’ lawyer, Sarah Pascoe, said her client was depressed at the time as his relationship had broken down and he was in the middle of a custody dispute over his daughter.

She said Brooks had since completed a Queensland traffic offender program, a QTOP driver education program and had pleaded guilty early to the single charge of dangerous operation of a vehicle.

He had also lost his job as a result of his car being impounded.

Magistrate Stuart Shearer has warned hoons they will be stripped of their licences for 12 months.

“If you had hit the electrical substation you would all be dead,’’ Mr Shearer told Brooks.

“If you want to be a hoon in a car, go to Willowbank (raceway near Ipswich).’’

He disqualified Brooks from driving for 12 months, fined him $1500 and recorded a conviction.