Update on Fontana

[Sandy]

I don't understand the sound thing out there is a NACAR track. We did have to worry about that at Pomona though because of la Verne. But Fontana really

 

[vegasnitro]

I don't understand the sound thing out there is a NACAR track. We did have to worry about that at Pomona though because of la Verne. But Fontana really

I don't understand spending all of that money to build the wall ... And you still can't run the types of cars you want to run. Seems that should have been sorted out in the planning and design phase before that 7 figure check was scratched out.

 

[Randy]

I will officially be doing nothing at the show.

I noticed you held true to your word. Actually, the only real work I saw you do was standing in line at the lunch truck that was selling the bacon wrapped hot dogs and carne asada french fries. BTW, they were very good!

Larry had the Shirley car on mean when they fired it up. My ears are still ringing.

 

[Mike]

I will officially be doing nothing at the show.

Oh, like that's something different

 

[glofria]

I got the answer I was looking for straight from the horse's mouth last night on Speed Scene Live. Blown cars are able to run at Fontana with zoomies. For this and more check out Lucky's interview with Track Mangger Tracy Fishcle along with Kenny Youngblood and Al Heisley of Fuel Coupe Magazine.

http://www.speedsceneracing.com/home.html

 

[Mike]

I don't understand the sound thing out there is a NACAR track. We did have to worry about that at Pomona though because of la Verne. But Fontana really

NASCAR track had all the permits and is 100% legal.

 

[Ugly one]

Oh, like that's something different

English, I know where the plug is to that mic you use at Famoso

 

[You!]

I got the answer I was looking for straight from the horse's mouth last night on Speed Scene Live. Blown cars are able to run at Fontana with zoomies. For this and more check out Lucky's interview with Track Mangger Tracy Fishcle along with Kenny Youngblood and Al Heisley of Fuel Coupe Magazine.

http://www.speedsceneracing.com/home.html

That's not quite what Tracy said Gino.

 

[Randy]

English, I know where the plug is to that mic you use at Famoso

This is a family oriented web site.

 

[SoCal Racer]

As you recall several years ago I took my funny car to WACC for the kids and we fired it up. I heard one of the neighbors threw a fit and complained about the noise. Larry posted that you guys are going to fire up the cacklefest cars there Saturday so I hope no one gets in trouble! I would hate to see some elderly woman chasing Larry with a broom.

What do you want me to bring? I have a shop full of stuff to chose from. If the church has a pool I could bring my supercharged Yamaha Wave Runner. The easiest thing to bring would be my Prius or my pit scooter. Didn't you have to enter in advance due to limited space? My buddy Dave Dalmas entered his 1967 'Cuda. I told him I hope he doesn't get nitro all over his nice paint job?

NO! Do NOT bring a Prius... unless of course it is blown with zoomies

Seriously though, we're excited to be racing at Fontana again!

 

[Raconteur]

Track Manager Tracy Fischle, Vice President Of Operations at AutoClubSpeedway Ray Wilkings and other track personnel met to compile their information and Wilkings came forward with his observation, “We are getting some good data, but we’ve got some cars that are not going to be able to run here. We are reaching too much of a decibel level, but the wall is doing what it is supposed to do, it’s showing that the (sound) studies we did are verifying what was showed.”

Wilkings added, “What we did today was to bring out something that we thought would exceed those numbers and, in fact, they are exceeding those numbers. We proved that the studies were accurate, what they said we could run – we can run, what they said would be borderline were in fact borderline.” Wilkings had been measuring the sound from approximately 1/8 mile, directly north of the dragway starting line, on the other side of the newwall. “Everything was fine, we didn’t even reach a decibel level that exceeded the level of normal traffic on the road. It was the blown Pro Mod cars that were the problem.”