Drag strips closing every Day!
What really burns my biscuits is assholes that move within earshot of a race track and then relentlessly ***** about noise, crowds and fan behavior. Move somewhere else like the planet Pluto.
Case in point a lawyer that moved into the vicinity of Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin has filed law suits.
Cedarburg, Wisconsin had a 1/4 and 1/3 mile clay oval track at fireman’s park. Bitching about noise,crowds and behavior was constant from new residents from 1973 on. Result? Track closed in 1979 and the reason? The grand stand built in the late 1800’s was deemed structurally unsound and too close to the track. Insurance companies refused to insure the track. If you believe all that bitching didn’t have nothing to do with it, I bet my bottom dollar it did, there is always stuff going on behind the scenes, folks pulling strings.
Now fireman’s park is used for flea markets, looky loo’s walking around digging through other folks garbage and unwanted junk. The unsound grand stand still stands and while no one is allowed to sit in it, it is used for indoor flea market space and the bar is still there. That’s a bunch of total bulls **** right there. Totally ruined the culture and character of the city and southern Wisconsin. Before car racing which started in the late fifties, there was motorcycle racing and before that horse racing dating back to the mid 1800’s.
I’d like to personally thank the folks that ruined my hometown I grew up in and have lived in all my life.
This!^^^
It really pisses me off of how stupid some of these people are.
Bandimere Speedway (Mile high track in Colorado) closed in October. The track has been there since 1958, and people have been complaining about the noise as they build more houses closer to the track. You build your damn houses close by a bloody racetrack, what did you expect? Bunch a dumbshits.
I am hearing that the Bandimere family is possibly building a new track somewhere else. I hope that is true.
Just like the story about the Lion's Club shooting range here Bountiful UT that's been there since the 1950's, they then started building these elaborate homes higher on the mountainside closer to the range. Then the idiot more-money-than-brain snobs started complaining about the noise and concern about stray rounds hitting their houses.
I mean how stupid are you to complain when you're the one who moved close to a shooting range that has been there decades before you? They had a fire right next to range in 2019, all these ****-headed snobs were quick to blame the range. The end result after the investigation? It was from an unattended campfire after some teenagers from the nearby neighborhood had a "camp party" that might've included underage drinking.
Same story goes for the idiots who move close to race track.
We had the old Rocky Mountain Raceway here in Utah close down in 2018 a track that's been there since 1968, and this was more due to greed. I mean there were some complaints from those who lived nearby about the noise.
The land was made into an industrial area forking in more money for whoever leased out the land. The nearby residents who did complain about the noise realized it's even worse now. Traded racecar music to industrial noise, chemical smells and semi-trucks going in and out (there's a DHL and Mearsk shipping warehouse in the mix as well).
And they wonder why Salt Lake City has had a huge spike in illegal street racing the past few years and steadily getting worse... You think?
Sorry for the rant about stupid-**** people, LOL.
