Origanally posted by Roscoroo
the main problem is there isnt enough tracks and todays youngsters are Idiots.
they pick very stupid places to race ..industrial zones, city streets , ect .
Back when I used to race we always went out to the deserted country roads were you could see for 20 miles on a clear night and cars never lined the road from the start line on .
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You're all too right, Rosco. It used to be around here, that there were plenty of open farm roads that were deserted late at night, which people would use for a pass or two. However, with all of the housing and expansion, and all of the people moving here from LA, It's totally changed the flavor of the ol' SR crowd to where I cheer to myself when I see the rice-rockets taking paper from a holstein-sled. The funny thing is, I used to run my fair share of them. But now...crush every damn import they can catch, I say. It's not just the changeup in cars, it's the change in the kind of people who used to run them.
As far as the lack of dragstrips go...as developers' offer more for the land, more track owners are going to get tired of putting up with high insurance, driver's complaints, ever-bigger purses, and seemingly lower turnouts, and just sell the tracks to become houses or condos. THAT part is sad; I have also had the unpleasant experience of taking part of the demise of Los Angeles County Raceway in Palmdale, CA.
Due to a shortsighted business move on Bernie's part, he left the lease of the land open so that Granite, Inc. could operate a Rock-sand-gravel mine there. As the mine expanded, they took a little more of the track, and a little more, a little more...And I ran the D-10T that shoved the Raw material from the mine into the hopper that fed the crushing and sizeing facility.
I left there about a year ago, and the last time I drove by, the Track had almost lost all of its' pit area. I'm thinking that by now, the track is closed, with the Track surface getting ready to be stripped off, so that it can be turned into Gravel, Class A base, and asphalt. I'm glad I took another job before I saw it's final demise.
They also need a cheap Street race-oriented track that has an open schedule to cater to the majority of these racers, if they really want to get them off the streets.
