Bad news for SoCal racers...

[Ford1288]

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We just got word that Fontana’s dragstrip has been closed due to a court order pending an Environmental Impact Study and the construction of a sound barrier wall after complaints of excessive noise. The NHRA Street Legal Drags had been scheduled for this weekend, and it appears that the closure will also affect the NMCA West schedule. With the closing of Fontana following close on the heels of Irwindale’s shut down, southern California is left without any active dragstrips. We’ll keep you posted as news develops.


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[wickedstangs]

not good.. Sorry to hear that.. Maybe we might have an outstanding turnout if Barona is the only track still open...

 

[sdsubzero4]

WTF!!!!!!!! Screw all them tree huggers! I didn't see any houses around there. All I saw were warehouses and shops around there. Who's complaining? The warehouses and businesses. Hell, they make more noises then the cars. Plus its on a freaking weekend. This blows, someone just need to go do donuts and burnouts around there and see how they like that. Freaking RIDICULOUS!!!!!!

 

[GhostRider]

WTF!!!!!!!! Screw all them tree huggers! I didn't see any houses around there. All I saw were warehouses and shops around there. Who's complaining? The warehouses and businesses. Hell, they make more noises then the cars. Plus its on a freaking weekend. This blows, someone just need to go do donuts and burnouts around there and see how they like that. Freaking RIDICULOUS!!!!!!

I completely agree! I don't see how the "noise" is a problem, considering there are active train tracks, and industrial buildings right next to it!! I'm just glad that we got to experience the fun it was, before the closure!! I'm really upset to hear this, considering this is the third drag strip closed!! First my hometown drag strip LACR in Palmdale, then Irwindale’s shut down, and now Fontana!! This is just crazy.... Times are changing and its not a good change... This is just going to push racers back onto the streets! Then those people will really have something to complain about!!!

 

[wickedstangs]

WTF!!!!!!!! Screw all them tree huggers! I didn't see any houses around there. All I saw were warehouses and shops around there. Who's complaining? The warehouses and businesses. Hell, they make more noises then the cars. Plus its on a freaking weekend. This blows, someone just need to go do donuts and burnouts around there and see how they like that. Freaking RIDICULOUS!!!!!!

Actually Danny they built the track around one house that refused to sell at the time.. The lady refuses to sell and is always giving them a hard time.. Trying to find the article..

The verdict is in and it's.....no verdict.

I was there yesterday and sat through the discussions between the judge and the racetrack legal team and the home owners legal team. They are at an impasse. The track is willing to suspend drag racing immedietely and build the wall, IF, the judge ruled that after the wall was built, the drag strip can go ahead full bore (including nostalgia fuel cars just like at Bakersfield). The home onwers say that if the wall will mitigate the sound problems, build it and if it works, great and if it doesn't, it's back to square one.

It's a catch-22 situation. It's foolish (and would be a poor business decision) for the track to spend upwards of a million bucks on a wall if it doesn't adequately protect the home owners, and there is no way to prove that it will, short of building the wall. The judge has specific sound measurment DB's he is working with and nobody is certain that the proposed wall will keep the noise under those DB's.

My experience of the judge after listening to him is that he is quite familier with drag racing, and the economics of the whole situation, but the acceptable noise level is still the acceptable noise level. As I understand it, these are state levels, not local or county levels

 

[V.I. Massive]

Well there goes the neighborhood.

 

[reynardjackson]

danny..donuts in her yard... GOOO lol

 

[KillerBee]

... Really 1 home is causing all of this? This is total crap!