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Maybe if racecars had mufflers starting 50 years ago there wouldn't be as many racers with significant hearing loss :rolleyes:...hindsight observation

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Pacific Raceway has been dealing with this for years and has worked with the City of Kent and Washington State to keep the track protected. There are several homes - big ones - that have been built within the past few years within 100 yards of the staging lanes.


The track is on one end on a long sand and gravel pit parallel to SR18 between Auburn and Kent. The urban legend is that the Kent people tried to shut the track down and the business owner/track President, Jason Fiorito, told them that if he shut the track he would move his rock crusher over to the site and run it 24/7.


When they started their expansion the track cut trees from the buffer between the parking lot and sub division for rental garage spaces for racers. Neighbors took photos and complained about the tree clearing even though their homes are are on cleared land.





There is a sign on the ticket booth that reads "The Neighbors Do Not Get in Free"

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Ask the racer's on Long Island if they would use mufflers now, West Hampton raceway used to be open, but the town got lawyers because of noise. Now there's no dragstrip on Long Island. You have to ask yourself this question, are you there to race or make noise while racing? I for one would prefer to race with mufflers than to have no place to race at all. Society is moving into areas that no one would ever think they would, so as racers we should adapt if we want to continue race. There's a lot of them and not enough of us.

Casey Miles
248H Stock

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Here's a good one, I live about 1/2 mile from the tracks for N.A.D. Earle,where the fleet in the Atlantic goes for ammo.,the place has been around since WWII, well some whiners in the phony mac mansions cried and moaned, and now the engineers cannot properly blow the horn for the crossing on my road. To me, go the hell back to the cities you came from, enjoy; the drive by shootings, cop cars,& garbage trucks. John Kissel I almost forgot, they whine about the National Anthem played each day at 8:00 am being too loud

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FLASH-NPR NEWS- Elon Musk will be entering into a $15 million deal with NHRA to promote electric drag cars in all categories of NHRA racing. Looks like the internal combustion engine and flatulence from the racing community has sealed our fate. This will also be joe bidens 46th mandate.



Is it necessary to write LOL? Can't be too sure days.

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If Elon Musk is giving the money to NHRA they will just squander it. Musk would be better off to develop some electric race cars then get NHRA to develop a class for them to race. Once Top Fuel and Funny Car are gone or down to 8 car fields there might be some room for electric exhibition cars. I don't see electric cars racing in our classes for quite a while.

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puke !