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A few years back, the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park settled a disagreement over what some nearby residents termed “excessive” noise from the cars using the Bowling Green track.
Now it appears it’s Laguna Seca Raceway’s turn to face legal scrutiny from a small group of nearby residents along Highway 68.
The track, located in Monterey County, California, has been there for 67 years, but a group called Highway 68 Coalition says the noise and traffic have increased “substantially” over the past couple of years because of increased activity at the track.
According to the lawsuit filed recently against Monterey County: “These increases include but are not limited to more racetrack event days, higher permitted noise levels, additional track rental days with intensified noise in excess of 100 dB, increased traffic, inadequate water supply and water quality, inadequate sewage disposal, and expansion of the camping grounds.”
A lawyer for Highway 68 Coalition, Richard Rosenthal, says the facility is now being used 340 days a year, with various groups being allowed to rent the track and thereby creating “a nuisance kind of noise.”
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The suit calls for the elimination of any track events that exceed noise limits set in 1985, but not surprisingly, Monterey County doesn’t want to do that since 2022 events at the track resulted in more than $246 million in total direct spending. If the track loses the suit, it could affect the county’s long-term concession agreement with the non-profit Friends of Laguna Seca.
The 2023 season marked the 25th consecutive year that Corvette Racing has visited the 2.238-mile, 11-turn track just off the Pacific Ocean, where a comprehensive track renovation and facility improvement project were completed during the year, with the facility reporting record-breaking attendance and a new official track lap record of 1:06.461 set by Christian Lundgaard in qualifying for the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey Sept. 9.
Regardless, it appears that the 2024 calendar of events that includes Monterey Car Week, among other long-time favorites, won’t be affected by the suit. In fact, Monterey County Communications Director Nicholas M. Pasculli told SFGate that the county “does not recognize any merit to the allegations and expects a favorable conclusion.”
YouTuber Alex Martini offers up his take on the situation with Laguna Seca and digs deep to find the real motivation behind the lawsuit:
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Like they didn’t know the track was there first?
Talk about entitled… This happened to Englishtown, NJ, too.
And Atco.. and countless others
These people that move into an area where there is something they don’t like and it’s now “Not in my Backyard”. Maybe they just LOVE higher Taxes on their R/E and other items. Just saying
The track is 65 years old, so in all likelihood everyone who moved into the area knew the track was there. Case dismissed.
Lime Rock faces similar issues. They can’t even hold races on Sundays there. Most people that complain moved there long after the track opened. On track days, they have strict noise limits and I’ve seen cars black flagged for exceeding them. They are allowed only a handful of unmuffled events per year.
Build a race trace in the middle of the desert in 1957 then in 2024. People who have moved there complain about there being a noisy race trace near them.
Well the track was there first, and the big one. YA DON”T MOVE CLOSE TO AN AIRPORT IF YOU DON’T LIKE NOISE!! All these ass clown complaining bitches knew the track was there so tell them all to Fu**k off!! God I hate people.
Funny how airports don’t face risks of being shut down due to noise. It comes down to local politicans taking payoffs to support the groups fighting to get a race track shut down. Look what is happened to Cleetus and the Freedom Factory. The city actually CHANGED to boundry lines so they could go after his race track. How is that even legal??
NIMBYs are just a bunch of EV virtue signaling tree hugger socialists that can’t stand good old American fossil fueled sports. These people are bringing the end to our country. Who will pay the taxes to service the 11+ million illegal invaders?
Prime real estate…I get it. At some point, even on the beach, there was lots of wide open unused land many years ago. In this case it is away from the beach and no problem for so many years but now homes get closer. Near me was a gun range for many years and a horse stable next to it. A large housing development went in displacing the stable and not far from the gun range. All home buyers could hear the gun range. Two years later, the gun range lost its permit and is gone due to complaints. I remember Orange County California Drag Strip…next to agriculture fields. Now all of that is upscale housing and malls.
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