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12/3/2015 9:47am
Driving home from Newark Ohio I had to swing by some old stomping grounds and took a pic.
Edit: if you search it on googlemaps you can see the huge wash out ruts on the track and the flat track up top is still there. I heard that what finally killed the track off was insurance going from $5000/year to $50,000/year.
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A good start.
What do you call a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with one empty seat?
A crying shame.
I've got a million of them.
I hate seeing old tracks disappear. The one we had in my town lasted the better part of 10 years and was a great track. Saw Justin Barcia there at a LLQ a few years back as well as Joey Savatgy. It was only 3.2 miles from my house and now it's just a field beside the interstate. I know you guys miss the historic ones y'all rode on back in the day. A track worthy of an LLQ 3 miles from the house!! Shit, I wished we had it back!!
Insurance companies usually are pretty good about pricing risk, and if it costs $50K to insure a track because of the litigiousness of its customers, then that's a price the customers should pay.
That's the reality as it is, not necessarily the ideal people want (at least when they imagine themselves never getting hurt). Not saying the system is great. I am all for spreading risk among society, but the current at-fault liability system for compensating injuries to ~ theoretically ~ not leave an individual destitute where injury disables them shuffles way too much money away from that good objective to lawyers, insurance companies and hospitals (hospitals far more so than doctors IMO). I say that as a lawyer, although the PI bar probably disagrees.
DC
Man, I sure do miss those days.
When we went to the Briarcliff LLAQ this year, Amber and I drove past where this sign used to be heading towards my great-aunt's house. The sign, as DC said, and the woods are all gone. Had a great weekend at Briarcliff. Just happened that my parents were up visiting family and my dad came out and watched me race for the first time in 20 years. Told me that "I was faster than he thought I would be, not bad for an old guy!" I guess that's a compliment from an old Marine!
Pit Row
Why wernt people sueing the heck out of eachother in the 70's...or were they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
The jury damages included $160,000[3] to cover medical expenses and compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages. The trial judge reduced the final verdict to $640,000, and the parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided.
We ALL need to stop thinking, "I am going to sue for as much money as I can get" when shit happens to us.
Me @ Honda Hills in 85. Track was perfect as usual.
Another one, holeshot from 1984.
http://www.pitracer.com/index.php?threads/more-honda-hills-race-pics.52…
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