January 15, 200521 yr comment_28419 well after the last drag event last year things did not look good for the local drag club. an altered had chute failure and shot off the strip at 155mph..... went through the safty net, hit the wire perimeter fence and shoved a parked car across the road..... as a result there has been no racing since last season. i resoloution was hoped for at a recnt coucil hearing. instead they banned racing from the track and went agaisnt a 10 year contract. that made us mad :) so the local drag club held a protest parade, made up of racers and supporters. of course i was there. the turn out was HUGE!! over 200 cars i reckon was great weather and i think it made a difference. with new safty gear on the way, and the obvious support from sooo many people racing wil be on again soon!!! we hope..... some of the cars in parade more cars... Mr Revhead and friends Report
January 15, 200521 yr comment_28430 wow that really sucks, but all that attention is sure to help change things for the good :) !! Report
January 15, 200521 yr comment_28431 It's an unfortunate thing that motorsport doesn't seem to be "voter friendly". Diamond Joe Quimby, come on down....... Report
January 15, 200521 yr comment_28437 my exs dads(south african) approach to matters like this was simple... a petrol bomb... but in this day and age it wont work... hopefully the council relises there mistake Report
January 15, 200521 yr comment_28475 how awesome is that. look at all the different types of cars banding together for a common cause. if only people around here would do that, we could get the council to give us back our burnour pad Edited January 15, 200521 yr by Super Jamie Report
January 15, 200521 yr Author comment_28488 well the driving force behind it al is the local drag racing club. the president organised it, talked to the council and police etc etc. so theres no reason wy you guys can't do the same. do it in a safe and respnsible manner and there should be no problem. but it depends on why you lost it... Report
January 16, 200521 yr comment_28564 because of complaints about noise and smoke. our council are softcocks. i could tell you lots of stories but the upshot of it is, we'll never get local motorsport here Report
January 16, 200521 yr comment_28618 What I don't understand is people knowingly move nextdoor to a racetrack thats been there for years and then they have the nerve to complain about noise.. surely some of it is justified, but then again, a lot of it is just spinning shit.. Report
January 16, 200521 yr comment_28632 "We can't stand the noise of the air port" "Why did you move here" "because it was cheap, but we didn't think it would be so loud" Dumb asses Report
January 16, 200521 yr Author comment_28633 tell me about it!! where i used to live, the airport and race track were 1 kay away as the crow flies... so people brought land there, bilut houses, and now the track has all sorts of restrictions!! :P and in auckland theres a big fuss over western springs speedaway. its been there for 75 years... and is now facing closure cause residents have moved there and are now complaining about the noise!!! that rack is so popular every year we get aussie and usa teams there to race... Report
January 16, 200521 yr comment_28636 the speedway is still going though, and you can hear that all the way across town. still, that's been here forever, and isn't something new to complain about. sucks to be us :P Report
January 17, 200521 yr Author comment_28642 in the paper today...... 350 cars on the parade.... :) also heard its been handed to a different department of the council... the guy running that department is the father of one of our mechanics girlfriends. and he loves drag racing :P Report
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