clive Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 Save our speed for the track... as a local "speed camera partnership" advert says refering to castle combe circuit... the only problem is all the OAP do gooders will soon have managed to close down Castle Combe! Castle Combe now can't run the GT's or the F3000's due to a noise abatement order which was instigated by residents who moved in within the last 50 years... ie: after the land transfered from being an air field to a car racing circuit. Problem? Even by the councils own estimates these are the two big earners, both for the track and the local economy... the track also say that they may have to cut back on track days and charity fund raisers due to the loss of income from these two classes (totaling about 5 hours of racing per year). Worse still, other councils with race tracks in their "patch" were at the hearing... YOUR TRACK COULD BE NEXT! FIGHT IT! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chris turner Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 Clive, how did you go on about the running water in your neighbours garden that you complained about. Perhaps the circuits neighbours feel the same about the noise as you do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ron Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 Clive Complaints about noise at motor racing circuits are not just a modern problem, I was involved in saloon car racing way back about 35 years ago and there was plenty complaints then, and for all I know for a lot longer than that, the race organisers paid lip service to the problem, basically if you stuck any tin can over an open exhaust pipe that bore a vague resemblance to a silencer the scrutineers were happy. Maybe if they had done something about then, they wouldn't find themselves in the situation they are now, people are less willing to put up with anti-social behaviour nowadays and there are legal mechanisms in place to do something about it, and good on them, peace and quiet is getting very hard to find nowadays. I don't think the fact that the complainees are incomers [they're always the easiest to blame] is a valid argument for allowing anti-social behaviour to continue, like Chris I would have thought after your saga with the fountain you would have had some sympathy with them! When I listen to the various assortment of power mowers, petrol hedge trimmers, strimmers and power washers etc [mine included] that appear every time the sun shines round here, a fountain would probably be therapeutic! Ron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
malcolm Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 I'm with Alec on this. If you live next to Heathrow airport you can expect to hear aircraft, if you move in next to Castle Combe you can expect to hear racing cars. The track has been running for decades and there are plenty of other villages to live in.... Malcolm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ron Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 Malcolm Heathrow's noise is by and large unavoidable although improving with time and technology, an airport is a modern necessity that serves a large section of society, the noise from motorsport is avoidable and it's a minority pastime that only interests a small section of society, because something antisocial has been going on for 50 years doesn't make it acceptable or we could still be sticking wee boys down chimneys. Ron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chris turner Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 The political saying N.I.M.B.Y.seems apt here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tr7jim Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 Clive, Closing down Castle Coombe would be sad and I always enjoy this Circuit. I have noticed each year the rules are ever tightening. Myself and three other TR's have just been there yesterday at the Rally Day, seeing Steve Rockerham and Gabe O'Connell TR7 Rally cars going around the Circuit in the Wet. This must be the best way of seeing these cars. Jim Johnson Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Iain Rollo Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 So whats wrong with sticking wee boys down chimneys then? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clive Posted August 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Clive, how did you go on about the running water in your neighbours garden that you complained about.Perhaps the circuits neighbours feel the same about the noise as you do. 1) The race track lived there before any of the residents that complained... the fountain was installed after we moved here! 2) The noise levels that have been "outlawed" happened for 5 hours in a year, the fountain was 24/7. 3) Was 24/7... it went bang big style one night and has not been repaired yet... infact any fish in the pond must be dead, because it has no water in... 6 months of peace... except for the vists to Combe of course! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
malcolm Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 .... because something antisocial has been going on for 50 years doesn't make it acceptable or we could still be sticking wee boys down chimneys. This is the fox hunting arguement all over again isn't it? I just can't see a few hours a year motor racing in the same vein as hunting with hounds or making small children climb down chimneys. It really isn't doing any harm and the protestors could easily have avoided the problem by NOT moving into a house near a long established motorsport venue. Sorry but I have no sympathy for them at all. Malcolm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robgeev Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 the noise from motorsport is avoidable and it's a minority pastime that only interests a small section of society, because something antisocial has been going on for 50 years doesn't make it acceptable or we could still be sticking wee boys down chimneys.Ron Ron. I'm shocked, how green and lovely can you be? Perhaps it's time to sell the TR and get a Prius? Motorsport is for the boys and the rest be damned! We will fight them on the beaches etc. I have noisey cars, I like the "vibe", let the boys have some fun! Never mind, get on with life. You move near an area, be it airport or racetrack-you know what your getting yourself into, don't try and blame other people for your own mistakes. (was that a rant? I live near East Midlands Airport NEMA and get f.d off with newbies moaning that aeroplanes land there) Rob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clive Posted August 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 ...Motorsport is for the boys... And the GIRLS! Let's not forget that there are female racing drivers, marshalls and spectators out there! Katie did a Rally Driving Course at Silverstone Rally School yesterday for her 18th Birthday. The location was lovely and peaceful untill the Escort MKII Rally Car started up... then it was just lovely, but no longer peaceful... How sad...NOT! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Elliott Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 I was very interested when I went to the TR races at Cadwell Park in 1998 and saw many drivers fabricating silencers for their exhaust systems out of anything at hand to meet the 95 dbA limit. I saw all kinds of expanded metal grilles from bar-b-ques being cut up and rammed into the tail pipes in order to pass the test. There are no such restrictions here in North America. As for the noise at Heathrow, there is not only the roar of a 747 taking off. There are hundreds of automobile anti-theft alarms that sound off after being vibrated by the last jet to have roared into the sky. Every traveller who leaves his car in the Heathrow car park for a week comes back and can't fathom why his battery has gone dead in the middle of summer. It's because the alarm has gone off every two minutes for a week. The noise from these car alarms is really annoying while you are waiting for the shuttle to take you to your departure building Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A, Montreal, Canada Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Smith Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 As for the noise at Heathrow........The noise from these car alarms is really annoying....... Don It's when your car alarm hasn't go off for a while in the Heathrow, Hounslow and Staines area you really do need to worry! Cheers Andrew Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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