So are you gonna go watch some racing this weekend? Find an event near you and let me know where! Let's get out there and save our tracks!!!

people that move close to racetracks and complain about the noise should be sent a 9k revving straight piped honda civic with vtec on their doorstep bouncing off the rev limiter 24/7

Life cycle of race tracks: People race on streets People get mad at street racers Racers open race tracks/ drag strips People move near tracks People complain about the noise Racers close track/strip Racers street race again

If I was Laguna Seca I'd sue, Seriously, That Neighborhood has less than Zero right to close them down because they were stupid enough to build their homes next to a Racetrack.

Cleetus McFarland: HOLD MY MTN DEW BROTHER *buys race track*

I feel like if you move near an existing race track, you automatically lose your right to complain.

*Neighbor:* "The race track are too loud!" *Racers:* "Guess we race around your neighborhood"

Freedom Factory 2020 "Cleetus Mcfarland"!!!!!!!

You skipped one of the biggest costs. Insurance. One serious accident and the insurance will skyrocket from lawsuit.

The government really needs to put a ban on the ability to make noise complaints if you move into a house that already has a track next to it

absolutely ridiculous to build a neighborhood right next to a racetrack! Unbelievable! Laguna Seca is iconic. If something happens to that track... oh man!!! Watch out!! heads will role!!!

Who's watching this after Cleetus bought the Freedom Factory?

I mean Cleetus just bought one

Why not make Laguna Seca a Historical Landmark? Save the track, get federal grants, and due to its historical/cultural value; Cars should be allowed to race and make noise. Losing that Track would truly make my heart stop, LOVE It!

People: *moves near AN ACTIVE RACE TRACK* People: *Hears beautiful engines* People: *the fffffffff* People: *files complaint*

IndyCar and F1 aren’t on a decline. They’ve got a worldwide attention. NASCAR in the meantime.....has its own problems.

We need more channels like Cleetus out here saving pieces of motorsport instead of crashed supercars!

Hell, I was happy to buy my house BECAUSE it was only a couple miles from a track... Music to my ears!

I used to live in a town in NY that had a dirt track. Every Saturday night you could hear it across town. And everything for a mile got covered in dirt. They would let us in for free if you came near the end of the night. Good times.

Grassroots drifting has saved the Motorsport scene in Australia ever since they closed down the Holden and Ford plants and cancelled production of our Aussie Performance cars and changed V8 Supercars to not only be Ford/Holden anymore. Places like JDM X Park! Private property that someone built a race track on. Charge $50 to drive the entire day.

TO PROFIT: You need to build tiny houses with garages on the opposite side from the stands and charge for race weekends where you bring your own car and zip it around whenever you want.

CA government shouldn’t restrict the legendary racetrack. Long life Laguna

If your living in a house that is right next to a ACTIVE RACETRACK and complaining about the loud racecars in the racetrack is basically like saying that you don't have any common sense

Not many racing series are televised and when they are they’re hard to watch because they skip between networks all the time due to rights. I watch everything on KZfaq.

A guy who lives local to me just bought Desoto Speedway and restoring it to its former glory which is awsome. I've never done any drag racing or amateur nascar type racing, I think it's bad ass.

Where I live (Holland), Circuit Zandvoort almost got closed because people were complaining that there was to much noise. Fortunately, it didn't get closed, because it's such an awesome historic track.

Don’t you hate when you want to go to sleep but you hear a 22b 4 rotar rotary in the distance. No, you don’t hate it

I live in Leeds Alabama and when they built the Barber Motorsports track I loved it. Every weekend in the spring and summertime you can hear the motorcycles and cars racing around the track. When Indy cars race, it's my favorite sound to wake up to in the morning. I highly recommend the track and motorcycle museum to anyone who loves circuit racing.

Cleetus McFarland just bought one in Bradenton Florida

They closed the local track here around 10 years ago and now they're calling streetracing a major problem and im pretty sure they set up a task force now.

I am willing to trade places with anyone who lives near any race track that can't bare the noise.

And then there is Cleetus McFarland who just buys the whole track :)

Cleetus McFarland: "hold my dew."

"wheeeere have aaaaaaaalllll the racetracks gone???" -Green Day, Letterbomb, 2004

*You close our tracks, we go to the streets*

You can hear Richmond International Raceway from anywhere in the city when there is a race and I love it; haven't heard of any talk to get rid of it either. It's awesome!

I think Indy Car will be fine. A lot of Formula 1 drivers that don’t make it end up in Indy Car more often than not.

We need a track like Nurburgring, pay toll and drive.

Non car person: *moves next to a race track* Race Track: *Makes noise* Non car person: *suprised pikachu face* Edit: thx for likes go Donut Media Edit 2: I also live near a busy airport (not too close but close enough to hear the planes) but it never got annoying, there was a plane every 4-6 hours and it was fine, never got annoyed.

Time was when I saw a slow dithery driver I could assume it was an older woman. Now it is just as likely to be a youngish man. I think the US is losing interest in driving, particularly younger men.

Is the thumbnail the freedom factory lol?

Donut: Go to your local race track... Me: Looks up location of closest race track. Me: See's its a 4.5 hour drive... Me: See's a crazy high entry fee... Me: Looks in wallet... see's nothing... Me: :'(

I mean look at this: -Cars are barley coming out with manual transmissions -Cars are generally more expensive these days -Cars becoming electric which doesn’t excite many people to go on a track -Manufactures shifted to crossovers barley any sports cars Sad times we live in where everything is automated and lifeless

Most short tracks don't give out 10k weekly, that's like one or two races a year if they have a "nationals" race.

Thanks for the Asheville shout out Nolan! We have an old oval race track in Asheville unfortunately they closed it a while ago and turned it into a bike track where guys in spandex ride bikes in circles.

Car: goes vroom* KAREN INTENSIFIES

I grew up close to a drag strip. And LOVED it when i heard the cars racing. No one complained about it either. It was free advertising. Got a lot of us out to the track on days we wouldn’t have otherwise gone. I guess thats the difference between the 80’s and today.

I never have done the math, It really is expensive to keep even a local dirt track operating! Ours closed about a year ago. First problem the track had - new owner knew nothing about operating a dirt track - it was all down hill from there! Sure miss them Sprints!

Before this video, I wanted to be a racecar driver. Now, I'm extra depressed and REALLY want to be a racecar driver.

If the government doesnt want people to street race then they should build tracks. Like they did with skate parks when skateboarding was a "crime"

You forgot to mention the crew passes for your calculation. The local circle track we run at charges $25 for infield tickets and only $12 for the grandstand tickets and then sponsors for track signs as well.

Might I recommend something like tail gating and camping for all practices and a put pass gets u closer to the cars stuff like that

So that's why MotoGP don't race at Laguna Seca anymore, f*ckin neighborhood

I know that feeling. Here in Madrid it is even worse. Go online and search "Circuito del Jarama". As you can see, there's a housing complex right next to the track. The house owners complained and now the track can only have 7 unrestricted noise weekends. Furthermore, they tried to lobby and close the circuit in order to use the land to expand the golf course next to the racetrack. Absolutely insane

Rich idiots moving next door to a race track is what killed K.C.I.R. so now Kansas City hasn't a drag strip any more. Thank you for bringing awareness to the problem. Not only does it affect racers, engine builders and garages ended up going out of business as well.

I've only been to one racing event. An "Auto-rama" if I recall the title correctly. It too was out in the middle of nowhere: "Podunk" Indiana. :-) I, my girlfriend and her children, had a great evening at the multi event show. Everything from Demolition Derby, to Figure-8 Bus races, jumping exhibitions and Recreational Vehicle sprints to finally a race on the half mile track. (I do not know the class of the autos racing that night.) We had a great time, surrounded by some of the friendliest people I've met in a very long time. YES! Let us save these racetracks. :-)

From NC, had no idea that track existed and you are correct in saying podunk becase it's in the middle of nowhere

Make a up to speed on james pumphrey

Saw the thumbnail and thought, Cleetus McFarland just bought that racetrack!

Sad to hear Antioch closed. I live around the Charlotte area and we love our dirt track racing! One thing that hurt them I think was the amount of tracks within 50-100 mile radius. Their are at least three other tracks that host larger races on the regular that draw the crowds on Friday and Saturday’s.

I grew up racing go karts. I'm now 28 and I would LOVE to race something, but simply can't afford it. It's sad...

I live in Québec Canada, and one of our track close this year because of some People Who build their houses next to it... after this, they are asking why there is road racing in the town... 🙄😭 RIP autodrome st-Eustache with all thoes races/drift/show and shine...

lol I feel like Cleetus must have saw this video recently..

And here comes Cletus bringing it back!!! Hell ya brother!!!

Well, if there won't be any more racetracks, guess I'll race on the streets.

Also we have noise complaints about our local track. The 10 houses. That were there after the track was built

The Lake Union Seaplane Base (the largest seaplane base in the lower 48) has been dealing with noise complaints too and it's the same situation. It was there before the houses, people started to build there and then complain about the noise. It drives me crazy

Seriously good piece. Same issues in the uk with race tracks. Knockhill circuit in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, but used to get complaints from a village about six miles away simply because the occupants knew it was there and their fucking hearing suddenly gained an acuteness that hadn't previously made itself obvious.....

You missed a major profit eater...INSURANCE!!!! The cost for insurance on a track is astronomical.

Build suburbs near an airport: No complaints Build suburbs near a prison: No complaints Build suburbs near a racetrack: “ This is unacceptable!” 🤦🏾‍♂️ Side note: I’m guessing that renting out tracks for other events like car shows and concerts still won’t be a 100% fix?

Thank You, I am going to Heart of Texas Speedway this Friday night to support My local race track.

when you do go to a race track, (i like sportscar races, and we camp in the infield), buy everything for your trip, or even night, close to the track, and casually mention that you are headed to the track. gas up for the ride home, and tell them this is a race related purchase. thank the locals you encounter for having you as a guest in their "beautiful, fine, nice town", and be respectful as you come and go.

Honestly I felt to slap everybody in their face who lives near Laguna seca and complains about the sound Should conduct a car rev contest in that neighborhood

the entry into racing is just too expensive these days. everything is getting to expensive.they need to find a way to get the cost down so some more people get into the sport

A lot of great information and points in this video. First video of yours I've watched and like it very much. It's not just Laguna Seca that has dumb neighbours issues. There is a local to me drag track that has been operating since the early '60's and over the last few years a few new houses have been built near it and these people have the audacity to complain about the noise, knowing full well that there is a function race track near by. Another facility also local to me has a similar issue, though the town was there first, the track has been operating since 1956 IIRC, but the track was able to install dirt mounds around the outside of the facilities towards on the side towards the town to help absorb and defect the sound. Of course there are still complaints, but the noise is always within allowable limits, and racing stops at 10 because of this, it used to be 11... :/

Had the same problem in Daytona Beach Fl ,when we racing the 8th scale RC gas cars ,Track had been there for 20+ years then in 2004 they city let then build an apartment complex right next ,so started the noise complaint and 2 years later it was surround by an housing development. No the race the little electric cars if it is still there as I moved away.

The noise restrictions are going to lead to more ev racecars and less petroleum powered machines... Nieghbors ruin everything!

Because it went from a working man's sport of adventure to an elite rich man's sport about who you know...

Great points!! (PS: I live about 45 minutes from Antioch Speedway aka The Donut Dome and watched racing there when it was open).

I love that y’all brought up dirt oval racing y’all should go to a track and race one day

Witnessing more and more tracks that are, quite simply, scattered around the entire world in the most literal way sense of the word being shut down for no obvious reason brings a slight tear to my eye. It's a pity, really...

I only race in school zones,I stop when I hear the speed bump scream

Having the track open to the public, clubs, shops, etc. for track time on non-event days can bring in the capital to put on the events. Sponsors, advertising space, concessions, driver school, etc. helps, too.

RIP Texas World Speedway. Used to be a top notch F1 track. 2 mile oval with an an infield AND outfield circuit. Now it's a salvage yard for flood cars, soon to be cleared to make way for apartments. Used to enjoy hearing the local Porsche club ripping it up in the distance from my patio on Sunday mornings.

Let's all get together SD and LA and create a massive scramble like in Fast and Furious 2.

Thank you so much for this episode you are exactly right I've grown up at highland Rin speedway in millersville TN since I was a kid the track has closed twice and had 6 different owners car counts are declining and fan counts are coming down just as fast this episode is a great discription of the real crisis all of our local tracks are facing I grew up next to that track I've raced there I was the tech inspector there and now have returned on the safety crew while I finish my car and the last thing anyone who loves racing wants to see are tracks like ours closing down

IMSA and INDYCAR will be at Laguna Seca this year they're fine.

6:15 Got a similar problem where I deliver milk, fyi I'm a truck driver, the people around the dairy are complaining about it being too loud and all the trucks coming through, even though they agreed to it being build there

The city shouldjust say "only people living here before the track was build have a voice, anyone else, move if you don't like it." Also, Notice has to be given to any new tendans , builders, etc... We had a similar case of a couple that bought a house next to the local school playground and went complaining to the city about the noise. (both of them worked at home to make it even worse for themselves...) Short awnser was. "The school was here first, move or live with it in silence." they went to the media and got laughed at. they went to trail and lost. now they moved, problem solved.

Thank you for this one big time, because you ain't kidding, as this one hits home for me, as my small town has a dragstrip that's been around since the late 60's and not a mile down the road from it in the early 90's they built a lower income subdivision of small single story houses, then people move in knowing it's one of the premier Drag Strips in the south east(Carolina Dragway Birthplace of the Nationals), where they have regular Thursday night grudge racing, sometimes Sundays for motorcycles where people come as far as N. Carolina to race, and regular events like IHRA with teams all the way from Australia on some of the big events all on an 1/8th mile track, and by the early 00's they start complaining, and now they can't run past 1am no matter the event, when they use to run to 3am - 4am on big events, which now hurting their income, and the number of teams that will show up for the bigger events, and even in the mid 00's led to my brother who use to work at the dragstrip getting laid off because they had to cut staff to cut cost in order to stay open. Fuck these types of people who know where they are moving then complain. I say if they don't like it, then they should move if the Dragstrip, or race track was there long before them, and no one else who was already there had problem with it.

Donut: "what if we bought a race track" Cleetus: " hold my beer"

Racing is my passion. When I finally acquire my dream car and build my dream track car I will definitely go often to a local track. Sadly tho the GTA where I live does not allow tracks cuz it’s a big city and the noise bothers people so the closest non oval track to me is 2 hours away. Still willing to go that distance on the weekends tho!

I believe another major implication is general overhead. I can't imagine what insurance (not even racing insurance) but general property insurance (and taxes) for a large racetrack is!

I actually live next-door to Laguna Seca and I love waking up to the sound of cars going around the track. I wish all of the people were complaining would just move away

We lost our local track this past year.. The track FD used to come to when they came to Canada..

I used to live walking distance from seattle international raceway when it was still called that. Anyways when the top fuel guys would come it would come for Nationals and shake my windows and it was amazing.

You should actually buy that track I'd drive up from georgia to race there

Laguna seca needs a cup race and ramp those engine sounds to Max to piss off Peggy and Carol

a track near me got sold for pro lacrosse :D had no idea there was such a thing. maybe other non-car-racing events should happen at race tracks. really still racing, but a different course near me has a few bicycle races that start just after track time wraps up for the evening.

I used to work at Rocky Mountain Raceway before it closed down after more than 20 years in service. I miss that track..