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Old July 18th 06, 02:37 AM posted to us.talk.headline-news,us.politics,rec.autos.driving,ca.politics,alt.law-enforcement.traffic
Brent P[_1_]
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Default The Deadly World of Street Racing

In article >, Dave Head wrote:

> 2) The race track is usually 25 - 50 - 100 miles away 'cuz race tracks are
> noisy, so must be located in the boonies


And then people build homes near the race track and complain about the
noise and get the race track shut down.

> 4) Race tracks are of limited length and configuration - drags are 1/4 mile,
> big road courses are full of turns that slow the cars down, and they're not
> going to get permission to go out onto the ones that don't have many turns,
> like Talledega and Daytona. You _rent_ those tracks with BIIIG bucks...


Considering how much the article says they are spending, a membership in
the race-track country club out by Joilet IL would be in the budget


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