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Originally Posted by brown11b
Circle City hasn’t taken the necessary steps to play nice on this.
This isn’t a case of a historic track that people moved next door. Most of the residents have been there a long time, before the track.
The track needs to:
1. Ensure races end earlier, especially work nights.
2. Institute a muffler rule.
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I can remember back in the mid-90s when Hartford Speedway reopened as a dirt track. They actually had a curfew - 2300 hours I believe. Along with that was a local noise ordinance that had to be obeyed.
Now these guys knew that going in but continued to impinge on both. Bad blood between them and the city was made. It actually got to a point where a town council woman took a decibel meter to the track, marked off the proper distance, and measured the noise. This incident led to even worse things when the owner approached her and her young teenage son, who was actually holding the meter, and a physical confrontation occurred. But that is not the point. The point is, as noted above, if you do not play by the local rules, you will not be playing much longer. If mufflers are what it takes, by all means get mufflers on the cars.