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Dave is 100% correct.What do you think would be the consequences of having an incident at one of these tracks and they had a Mickey Mouse insurance policy(if they had insurance in the first place)?On the other hand if they were properly insured and their procedures were safe and fair I see no problem supporting that facility.
Wanna see scary?Go to Youtube and look up George Ray's little hometown racetrack. That will curl your toes.
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Back them 100 percent to help get it built. Then see what they want to do for insurance. It's hard enough to get a track built as it is. Then see where they go for sanction.
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I agree Insurance would be the determining factor. But I am dealing with a group that thinks its ok to have multiple passengers, no tech. I just think its interesting when a guy is griping about a sanctioned track not being welcomed because he needs to have his cage, and window net recertified? Lax tech at our old track KCIR has helped with this thought process. And a local 1/8 mile unsanctioned track reinforces the same thought process. Just curious what other parts of the country deal with.
Thanks Sean
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My local track is an unsanctioned outlaw track. Reputation wise, it's not great. It is a place to race and test. My take, if one doesn't feel comfortable at a track, use your best judgement.
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Or No Limit Raceway. (Formerly US 41) I've had guys from NLR tell me I'm a dumbass because I wore a helmet in a 13 second car. They saw nothing wrong with no helmet in an 11 second car. It's all fun until someone loses an eye. |
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I have raced at more unsanctioned tracks than sanctioned, I have raced at tracks that had no safety or medical equipment, no fences or retaining walls and tracks that were so short that you went through the traps hard on the brakes.
Very few of us started out at Indy! We worked our way up from them to "real" race tracks with all the safety equipment and a full sanction. I stood at the side of the track at York for the first SS/DI nationals, not behind the fence but at the edge of the asphalt, I could have touched Dick Landy's car as it went by me at 125 mph.....just me and hundreds of others! And, in the end, I've had more fun at little dragstrips out in the woods than at sanctioned strips. JimR
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Yeah, but there's no way to match the excitement of seeing fans who are within arm's length of your car scatter when you get a bit out of shape. Reminds me of my beginnings of street racing on West Markham in Little Rock.
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There is not a single track or a single race car that is "safe"
when used for the purpose intended. Some of each are just less dangerous than others............................................ ........... |
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Hi Dwight.Anybody who used to watch the street racing on 1st Ave in Brooklyn (Bush Terminal) will know what you are saying.Actually there were nights when the crowd parted like the Red Sea when the cars left the starting line.
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