A street takeover involving roughly 50 cars in Queens left residents shaken, a car torched and two neighbors injured as police cited competing emergencies and the precinct’s “large geographical area” for a delayed response.

Police said dozens of sports car drivers converged on a quiet residential street in Malba over the weekend, racing, revving engines and doing donuts in the streets.

Residents said the chaos escalated quickly.

Larry Rusch, who lives in Malba near the Whitestone Bridge, said he returned home Saturday night to find his “house was inundated with people on my driveway.”

He said he drove a private security vehicle used in the neighborhood into the street near 141st Street and South Drive to try to stop the drivers, but someone threw something inside, setting the car on fi

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