Spa in trouble??!!

[rslonaker]

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=351283

[Slowhands]

http://www.teamjuicyracing.com/forum...ead.php?t=4624

Glad to see that supporters of the track and event are organizing to try to reverse the decision. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

[GEORGE]

Now, how long has the SPA circuit been there? Isn't this like moving next to an airport and complaining of the noise? Same thing happened at the Monza circuit. What I would like to know is; When was the Spa circuit built? An how many reallly old folks are out there who were there Before the circuit was built! They probably couldn't hear it anyway! Those young rascalls who moved in since should have NO say! The can just buy earplugs!

[dalyduo]

Lime Rock could easily suffer the same fate if an angry group of late comers had their way. There is a hostile group of residents who have done everything they can to rally the community against the track. One cranky deep pocketed person has offered Skip any price he wants to sign the property over to her so she can make it into a golf course. These are people who knew the track was there when they bought their home and then complained bitterly about its presence after moving in. Part of Skip's purpose in creating "The Club" and a long term contract with the racing school is to make sure it can survive in hard times and after he's not around to hold the reigns. Hard to explain how mean spirited and short sighted some of those who would like to see the track disappear are.

[rcote]

Originally Posted by dalyduo

Lime Rock could easily suffer the same fate if an angry group of late comers had their way. There is a hostile group of residents who have done everything they can to rally the community against the track. One cranky deep pocketed person has offered Skip any price he wants to sign the property over to her so she can make it into a golf course. These are people who knew the track is there when they bought their home and then complained bitterly about its presence after moving in. Part of Skip's purpose in creating "The Club" and a long term contract with the racing school is to make sure it can survive in hard times and after he's not around to hold the reigns. Hard to explain how mean spirited and short sighted some of those who would like to see the track disappear are.

yeah.. cause there's NO property around Litchfield county that offer piece and quiet away from the racetrack.... people that are like that blow my mind. Unfortunately there's no shortage of them around ALOT of racetracks. Maybe they should go after their realtor or the seller instead of the track that in MOST cases was there way before they were. LOL...

Pat.. Is that cranky neighbor the same one who last year kept all her neighbors up to all hours of night while they filmed a horror movie at her house for like a month.??..?? It was mostly night filming and there were enough lights you could see them from Well's hill. Neighbors were so mad they were blowing their horns when they drove by during filming. I was told that by the state trooper that pulled me over for honking my horn to say "hi" to Dean as I drove by his house.

[dalyduo]

Exactly... Hundreds of quiet square miles north, west and east with no track nearby but some don't think they're alive unless their picking a fight with a local landmark.

Not sure about the filming location person but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Originally Posted by rcote

yeah.. cause there's NO property around Litchfield county that offer piece and quiet away from the racetrack.... people that are like that blow my mind. Unfortunately there's no shortage of them around ALOT of racetracks. Maybe they should go after their realtor or the seller instead of the track that in MOST cases was there way before they were. LOL...

Pat.. Is that cranky neighbor the same one who last year kept all her neighbors up to all hours of night while they filmed a horror movie at her house for like a month.??..?? It was mostly night filming and there were enough lights you could see them from Well's hill. Neighbors were so mad they were blowing their horns when they drove by during filming. I was told that by the state trooper that pulled me over for honking my horn to say "hi" to Dean as I drove by his house.

[cheekychica]

Originally Posted by dalyduo

Not sure about the filming location person but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

BIG victorian across the street from Deans sound right, Pat? (And speaking of Dean and the track, her dogs *really* don't like fireworks...)

[cdh]

Originally Posted by cheekychica

BIG victorian across the street from Deans sound right, Pat? (And speaking of Dean and the track, her dogs *really* don't like fireworks...)

I think it was Mariah Carey or some such Hollywood idiot who built a mega-mega-mansion in Litchfield Co. then promptly started complaining about the smell of manure and the flies from the neighboring farms, which had been there for generations. Buttholes.

Are the SB formula cars at Laguna still required to use the large mufflers? Better than not racing there I guess.

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by cdh

Are the SB formula cars at Laguna still required to use the large mufflers? Better than not racing there I guess.

Yes. And the noise standards are so restrictive that depending on the weather conditions (temp, overcast, etc-- there is some voodoo combination that is deadly), cars can exceed the limit even with them. It's not only the exhaust sound level that plays a role, it's apparently also the sound generated by the mechanicals of the drivetrain (which you can only alter by lifting). I remember once on a particularly bad day, cars kept setting off the alarm or whatever. It was happening to so many cars that Randy went so far as to ask us to time our lift for the upshift for the microphone placement, and to make it a long lift. The mic at the time was driver's right shortly after the exit of 5 on the run up the hill to 6 (I guess it would still be there, haven't been to Laguna in a year and a half), somewhere where you desperately need every rpm that little engine can muster.