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Offline JustaRacer

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Racing in the Future.
« on: January 11, 2013, 01:00:17 PM »
A couple more area race tracks are closing.  Speedworld and IIRC, Firebird.

This is what our children will be racing when they decide to carry the torch:

http://www.costco.com/VRX-iMotion-Custom-Racing-Simulator.product.100016149.html?catalogId=10701&langId=-1&keyword=simulator&storeId=10301

They will email you speeding tickets though.
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2013, 01:18:27 PM »
"...more area race tracks are closing.  Speedworld and IIRC, Firebird."  What area?  Your location isn't shown on your posts?  Please enter that information on the Profile page back in registration.
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2013, 01:48:13 PM »
It's nationwide, the Joke was the $35k driving simulator, not the fact sportsman class racing areas are vanishing in the US, it's a little late to worry about that, and it doesn't affect LSR yet.  Well, until they shut that down too.



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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2013, 01:57:11 PM »
I know a guy who organizes competition events, and is an announcer for events.

However, when it was time for a racetrack to be built 2 miles from his house, his community (and himself) got a lawyer and stopped it.  He lives in a rural area.

That's the future all over the country.  Water under the bridge, we did it to ourselves.
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2013, 01:19:17 PM »
All racing venues will be closed as soon as the liberal Obamaites find that all americans are not doing it on an equal footing. Every poor person from Chicago should be able to field a NASCAR team and if they are no allowed to win it will be declared uncconstituional and stopped at all costs.  :evil: 
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2013, 06:46:57 PM »
never mind  . . .
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2013, 10:57:00 AM »
Quote from: jimmy six on January 16, 2013, 01:19:17 PM
All racing venues will be closed as soon as the liberal Obamaites find that all americans are not doing it on an equal footing. Every poor person from Chicago should be able to field a NASCAR team and if they are no allowed to win it will be declared uncconstituional and stopped at all costs.  :evil: 

Well, our President said yesterday that the Federal Government should take any action that might involve the saving of ONE life.  So racing is now un-American by his definition.  I don't put a lot of faith in his opinion though.  I don't think he has a firm grip on reality.  Anyone who pays $20/gal for diesel is clueless.

But it's lawyers, zoning laws, insurance costs, the EPA/BLM, and of course land value that is killing off racing facilities.

Speedworld is zoning and building codes that is shutting it down.  IIRC, Firebird is land value.  Carlsbad was land value, LACR was land value, Fontana was lawyers, Pomona was lawyers, OCIR was land value, etc.  I've raced at all those tracks over the years. 
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2013, 09:03:43 PM »
Luckily the salt is safe from land developers for the time being.
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Re: Racing in the Future.
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2013, 10:12:38 AM »
Luckily, in the case of Bonneville, the BLM and EPA are on board for racing.  However, there is nothing stopping them from pulling the plug.   We lost a lot of desert in California to the Federal hand wringers.

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