For the last year or two, apparently there have been a couple of moaning locals (one of whom inherited their property) and they enforce a 95db noise reading TRACKSIDE, not at the boundary.
This has caught out a few people who had to either silence their cars further or go home. Sadly, 95db is not particularly loud and is a level that is enforced on road cars going through the LVVTA system, so you can imagine the problems with a race car. My V8 Magnette road car is exactly 95db at 3,000rpm.
The fact that open air music concerts can often be between 110db and 120db doesn't help. Most motorsport is done and dusted by 6pm anyway and we all know that a 12 minute race with 3 or maybe 4 races an hour, often with road cars that are relatively quiet, means that the noise is neither constant nor likely to ruin anyone's evenings or sleep, but there we are.
There is no such restriction at Hampton Downs and famously, Tony Roberts had a 24 hour monitoring at Hampton Downs and the loudest noise recorded was the dawn chorus of dickie birds at 6am, not the cars!
Hampton Downs apartment owners have a condition in their purchase agreements that they cannot object to either the noise on the track, the prison or the landfill.
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Originally Posted by ERC
