From all the talk on here about getting sound readings for track days, am I correct in assuming you can have a loud exhaust on the street but not at a racetrack?! How does that make sense?
The UK racetracks (majority) have strict noise levels in which noise testing is usually carried out in various ways.......
Technically, we should have fully road legal or "approved" silencers for the road. The reality is that our wonderful law enforcement agents do not carry decibel meters so they would not be able to check anyway. In the case of them (the police) stopping a motorcyclist for a "suspected" illegally loud exhaust it would be much easier for them (the police) to charge said motorcyclist for having an illegal number plate...... I digress..... Tracks, such as Mallory Park for example and to a lesser extent Oulton Park, receive many complaints from neighbouring houses so the enforcement of the noise limit at the track is much stricter
Ain't it annoying people complain when they know full well there is a circuit or an airport nearby when they buy a house near one.A mate lost his old car body workshop through houses built around his business.He was there when it was fields around him.Eventually the council sided with the neighbours complaining so he shut shop.He shafted the developers who wanted his land who built everything around him.They tried bullying him to sell up.He got 150k more for the land cos he made them wait 3yrs and made the place look derelict and an eyesore for the council and neighbours.He had the last laugh.
Nope, neither does having a 70 limit on motorways when most of Europe are 130KPH or 81MPH and we paid for new test centers to get in line with doing 50KPH on the test which is 31MPH and so over our speed limit for 30's Made more sense in my head then when I wrote that As said there is a short of limit with non race cans on the road. But when I got my kit car road legal all it had to do was be under 100db !!!! thats loud for a road car. No air bags, impact protection for driver, passenger or pedestrians etc... so not much makes sense these days to me
Why move near a race track then complain about the noise?? Think this is mainly an issue in our country as other nations seem to embrace racing and its exciting culture
In fairness, maybe when the house was bought, the track was not as busy. Roll back to 1980 at Oulton Park, I'd bet not many track days were held there - or events at all most weeks - so the noise could be tolerated by the locals if it was only once a week/fortnight. Might start to get a bit much if the circuit is now open 7 days a week. Just a thought from the other side of the fence........
A lot of it now is noise pollution.My local clay shoot nearly got shut down after 35yrs because a German couple complained.They had moved in 200yds down the road.They saw the property during the week and was aware there was a shoot every 2nd week.The didn't think it would be that loud.It cost our shoot owners £5000 in legal costs to come to some sort of arrangement.They had to build banks around the shoot to keep the noise level down.
I wouldn't be only shooting clay there, but zi germans would also be getting a few rounds, bet zi germans in the 40's didn't give a flying hoot about the jews complaining about things.... I would love to hear bikes go around a track 7 days a week...
Paint me astonished. Noise limits at a racetrack. Of course, it's nothing new regarding housing and loud areas under flightpaths, next to existing pubs etc.
I live less than 4 miles from Snetterton as the crow flies, and we can always hear stuff on track there, but I love the sound (but I love all forms of motorsport), I could however imagine that the sound could get on peoples nerves if they weren't that way inclined, so do back having noise limits at trackdays to allow us to show that there is regulation and governance in force restricting the time of day the track is open and hence allowing us to retain the use of the awesome tracks that we are fortunate to possess in this country. What really rattles my cage is when the sound of racing bikes and cars gets drowned up by some spotty Gary boy oik driving past doing 50 through a 30 in first gear with his 1.1 106 drowning out all other noise with his wupppp-wuppp-wuppp banging sound system innit. Seems that when it's 1 person they can get away with it - but 100 on a trackday can't. When I'm not riding/cleaning/fixing motorbikes I fly radio control things and know of many clubs who have had flying sites taken away due to the noise problems - any closer than 1km away from the nearest habitation and the council sound bods are all over you, and too many club members show arrogance rather than being amiable and agreeing to take steps to regulate noise emission.
