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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 01:24 AM
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A certain incident that involved "street racing" has rekindled an awareness for needing a drag strip in our county



http://www.kolnkgin.com/news/headlines/50904922.html

Watch the video too. Andy is a good friend of mine, as is Mike (who was not on the video, but was the other ticketed driver)



Now, this is not to condone street racing, but rather to give us an outlet to which we can enjoy our hobby legally. For those of you who aren't aware, a gentleman by the name of Greg Sanford was willing to foot the entire bill to have a dragstrip put in a small town just outside of lincoln. He had the land bought and everything. Only needed approval to have a motorsports complex built specifically. After a few hearings (one of which our own local forum flooded with members to show for support), ultimately it was shot down. Not only do I and many of my fellow peers/gearheads disagree with this decision, but we will not give up on trying.



I created this facebook group to help raise awareness again that there is tons of support to have a dragstrip built. I understand that none of you will probably be local or effect you in any way, but I'm sure some of you rotorheads can understand our plea for something that many of us find necessary to have. There are a lot of benefits to having this drag strip built, one of the biggest being money pumped into our city/county/state.



http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116705279461



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Old Jul 16, 2009 | 01:34 AM
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Originally Posted by KKMpunkrock2011' post='924402' date='Jul 16 2009, 01:24 AM
A certain incident that involved "street racing" has rekindled an awareness for needing a drag strip in our county



http://www.kolnkgin.com/news/headlines/50904922.html

Watch the video too. Andy is a good friend of mine, as is Mike (who was not on the video, but was the other ticketed driver)



Now, this is not to condone street racing, but rather to give us an outlet to which we can enjoy our hobby legally. For those of you who aren't aware, a gentleman by the name of Greg Sanford was willing to foot the entire bill to have a dragstrip put in a small town just outside of lincoln. He had the land bought and everything. Only needed approval to have a motorsports complex built specifically. After a few hearings (one of which our own local forum flooded with members to show for support), ultimately it was shot down. Not only do I and many of my fellow peers/gearheads disagree with this decision, but we will not give up on trying.



I created this facebook group to help raise awareness again that there is tons of support to have a dragstrip built. I understand that none of you will probably be local or effect you in any way, but I'm sure some of you rotorheads can understand our plea for something that many of us find necessary to have. There are a lot of benefits to having this drag strip built, one of the biggest being money pumped into our city/county/state.



http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116705279461



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well that sucks best of luck to you and your community.
Old Jul 19, 2009 | 09:41 PM
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best of luck getting it built, a track near me has been shut down multiple times due to noise violations. But really best of luck, anything to get people off the street where i dont have to worry about them screwing things up for the rest of us.
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