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Let's wander back on topic. Looks like shortly, and until the end of the year, there won't be any traffic through Forks of the Credit Road other than construction equipment.
How many years does it take them to get it right ... ? ? ?
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Again you wilfully miss the point. A 'standard' that does not also have a standardized method of testing, is no standard at all. It would be like officers permitting those stopped at RIDE locations to blow however hard or soft they wanted to, into the testing device.
As many as the wealthy home owners of Forks of the Credit Road tell them that it'll take.
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No, YOU have missed the point. This isn't testing for the purposes of gathering evidence to support charges. This is testing in order to encourage compliance with noise restrictions at a race track facility. It does not need to be precise.
By setting a noise standard, even an imperfect one, Laguna Seca has provided both incentive and stick to force would-be track users to take noise mitigation steps. For some it may mean short-shifting and keeping away from high revs, for other it may mean complete exhaust rework.
While there will always be some who will try to circumvent Laguna's system, the net result even with an imperfect system is a track that is pretty damned quiet as far as race tracks go.
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I've been through Forks, a couple of times in the last few weeks (first time in several years), and noticed something both times in the corner, just west of hairpin, that there was transmission fluid or light oil essentially at the apex. This is the spot:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...324.84,,0,0.84
It could be from someone dumping it, or it could be from vehicles bottoming out on the hump of the corner, but it isn't run-off.
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If someone was running extremely tight to the apex, as in the inner two tires essentially off the road, then I could see a low vehicle bottoming out at the point I indicated. I just thought it rather odd to see fresh oil of some sort there on two occasions, weeks apart.
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