Crash Kills three people in Holly Hill
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Guess they should open all these car movies with the final five minutes of American Graffiti then, perhaps this will de-glorify street racing?
I'll say it like I've been saying the last few year, FL, hell not even just FL anymore, the whole USA needs more tracks, and they need to be open more often. Oh I just love having to make a two hour trip to the track, hope the psychotic FL weather isn't on the rag and changing its mind every two seconds, deal with traffic, sometimes get less than five runs in. Great, tons of money, frustration and perhaps a dud trip. It sucks. There aren't any tracks by Jax yeah? How far of a drive is it to a track? Just curious. When I got my first car I wanted to run all the time, I never would have even thought of going to a track. Now I've been and yeah its great, and I don't race around town like I'm still 17, but still you have to plan a whole day around 4 hours and hope for the best.
Track fee+Gas (runs my last time out x my slow car)
$15+$50=$65 $65/(5x13)=$1 a second. Great!!! I'm poor, just going to a test and tune with my daily driver costs a lot, what bullshit.
I'll say it like I've been saying the last few year, FL, hell not even just FL anymore, the whole USA needs more tracks, and they need to be open more often. Oh I just love having to make a two hour trip to the track, hope the psychotic FL weather isn't on the rag and changing its mind every two seconds, deal with traffic, sometimes get less than five runs in. Great, tons of money, frustration and perhaps a dud trip. It sucks. There aren't any tracks by Jax yeah? How far of a drive is it to a track? Just curious. When I got my first car I wanted to run all the time, I never would have even thought of going to a track. Now I've been and yeah its great, and I don't race around town like I'm still 17, but still you have to plan a whole day around 4 hours and hope for the best.
Track fee+Gas (runs my last time out x my slow car)
$15+$50=$65 $65/(5x13)=$1 a second. Great!!! I'm poor, just going to a test and tune with my daily driver costs a lot, what bullshit.
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whats wrong with american graffiti? 1 or 2, they may not have been full of that fake action trying to be spectacular. but they were great car movies. back on the track thing, arent there a bunch of closed tracks in fla? i have an idea on that, maybe.
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Exactly! The scene actually shows a wreck and consequences, not it crashed and lets zoom out to the rest of the action. I love that movie, have 1 and 2 here, original Vanishing Point, original Gone in 60 Seconds, Two Lane Blacktop.
I think there used to be a track in Jax, if it were still open and people knew about going to the track, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.
I think there used to be a track in Jax, if it were still open and people knew about going to the track, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.
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jax raceways was jax's track. they shut it down to build a neighborhood but after testing the dirt from where the dirt track use to be they came to conclusion that the ground wasn't good for homes to be built on. So they shut it down for nothing and it use to get lots of buisness. me and my dad use to go every saturday night to the dirt track races
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i know times are tough, but what is stopping us from trying to reopen it or find a spot to open one. this is a big forum with lots of sponsors and members. anybody in?
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The houses and neighborhoods (which came second, not first) don't want them there. They don't want to deal with the noise, or late night traffic. And all types of other excuses. It's pathetic. We looked into this for a client whom had already purchases land in a rural area to build a Road Atlanta type situation here in Central Florida. It was near Haines City. That one was going to have 102 turns and an HD video taped dragstrip. It was an awesome idea, and everyone was excited that worked on it.
They ended up walking away because they couldn't get permits because of neighbors 5-20 miles away that "might" hear something and not be able to sleep. It was truly saddening.
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there has to be something we can do about this. when kids race on the streets and are involved in accidents, the media is all over it. maybe trying to get the media involved in favor of this. im not trying to be morbid, just trying to turn something into a positive.
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Many reasons- Insurance costs for one... Another is rural development. For example, someone builds a neighborhood next to a drag strip, the homeowners complain about the noise, and another small strip is shut down. Good times- And those are the same ******** who wonder why people streetrace?
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Many reasons- Insurance costs for one... Another is rural development. For example, someone builds a neighborhood next to a drag strip, the homeowners complain about the noise, and another small strip is shut down. Good times- And those are the same ******** who wonder why people streetrace?
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The reason most tracks shut down is homes nearby, insurance, cost of selling the land versus continuing to run the place, noise, etc. We've lost three Florida tracks in the last 17 years, so not all that bad when you think about it. Sunshine will eventually shut down, but it will likely be a while.
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