ALL BIKE TRACKS : Is this the end ........?

[wiggysan]

Well the people who live near Croft Circuit, here in the UK have won their court hearing saying that the track is too noisy.

http://www.bikesportnews.com/articles/article.html?id=CROFT_LOSES_NOISE_APPEAL_CASE_AND_FACES_CLOSURE_1

I have never heard such a load of rubbish in my life.

They then had the nerve to say, it was not the racing bikes / cars that made the noise, but the members of the public doing track days !!

WTF ?

The point is, like the very last line in the report states

" More dangerously, however, it leaves any motorsport facility open to legal action of the same nature. Not good. "

What I find amazing amazing is Croft was built around 1920 and racing started about 40 years after that.

If you buy a house near a race track, you KNOW you are going to get noise.

I remember a few years back, people of Donnington Village complained that the new 4 stroke MotoGP bike were to noisey. The Judge threw the case out asking " what, and the 747's that fly from East Midlands Airport are not as loud ? "

What next ?

People going to sue British Rail for buying a house near a railway line ??

This could mean big trouble.

Your thoughts please race fans ?

 

[proc]

Croft is the nearest to me. and I would not like to see it go. It may even be your nearest ?? I agree with you that they would have known about the track when they bought the property. or appealed its building in the first place (ancestors maybe) I also cant understand how track days can be louder than race days. and 40 days of track use is a non viable option. the track wont survive on that. if this does set a precedent, what are the other tracks thinking now. its not going to be cheap to soundproof croft, or any other circuit for that matter. planting trees would be a good start, (me being a tree hugger). I better book a few days before its closed down. Might have to rearrange that stag do I was looking into.