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Moto Board => Racing & Trackdays => Topic started by: Speeddog on March 15, 2011, 10:49:52 PM

Title: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: Speeddog on March 15, 2011, 10:49:52 PM
http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=43688 (http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=43688)

Membership limited to 500 people?

WTF are they thinking?
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: Desmostro on March 16, 2011, 05:17:59 AM
Sounds very business and car oriented. $5 says they won't allow motorcycles.

We should start a country club!
Not in the ugliest desert you've ever seen ass-hat-part of America. In a place that you'd actually like to be.
Let's buy Laguna Secca! Old military compounds are going for cheap these days. They tend to have beachfront property!
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: derby on March 16, 2011, 05:38:21 AM
neighbors don't complain about the noise in the desert... they DO at laguna seca...
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: pennyrobber on March 16, 2011, 06:16:39 AM
There was a track like this south of Phoenix. After a few years of operation, they opened it up to the public. I believe Ascari in Spain is more or less similar as well.
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: zooom on March 16, 2011, 06:53:21 AM
Quote from: Desmostro on March 16, 2011, 05:17:59 AM
Sounds very business and car oriented. $5 says they won't allow motorcycles.

We should start a country club!
Not in the ugliest desert you've ever seen ass-hat-part of America. In a place that you'd actually like to be.
Let's buy Laguna Secca! Old military compounds are going for cheap these days. They tend to have beachfront property!

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=45969.0 (http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=45969.0)
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: OT on March 17, 2011, 08:30:12 AM
Logo polo shirts @ $150 ea  [evil]
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: ZLTFUL on March 17, 2011, 02:23:13 PM
Autobahn in Joliet, ILL started like this as well...it lasted a year or two before they started allowing public orgs to rent the facility.
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: Grrrly on March 17, 2011, 02:55:14 PM
sounds like Monticello Motor Club (http://monticellomotorclub.com/).
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: swampduc on March 17, 2011, 03:51:43 PM
There's a new track being built along these lines in Avondale, LA, just outside New Orleans. It's set to open in July and I've already signed on as a moto member  [evil]
That's the thing: these guys have included motorcyclists from the outset and have a relationship with the local Ducati shop to provide service at the track. They offer moto memberships at a lower price than car memberships, though with fewer features than car memberships. They also plan on having public trackdays from the beginning, starting in August. Maybe we should do a DIMBY Dirty Coast out of NOLA one of these years?  [evil]
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: ducpainter on March 17, 2011, 03:56:11 PM
Quote from: swampduc on March 17, 2011, 03:51:43 PM
There's a new track being built along these lines in Avondale, LA, just outside New Orleans. It's set to open in July and I've already signed on as a moto member  [evil]
That's the thing: these guys have included motorcyclists from the outset and have a relationship with the local Ducati shop to provide service at the track. They offer moto memberships at a lower price than car memberships, though with fewer features than car memberships. They also plan on having public trackdays from the beginning, starting in August. Maybe we should do a DIMBY Dirty Coast out of NOLA one of these years?  [evil]
Host it and they will come... ;)
Title: Re: Motorsport Country Club?
Post by: swampduc on March 17, 2011, 04:01:38 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 17, 2011, 03:56:11 PM
Host it and they will come... ;)
Farms in New Orleans are hard to come by...
But I'll see about a house in the next year or two  ;D