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If any of you were thinking of going to Laguna for the Superbike Championship races in 2020, you might reconsider doing something else.

In another topic here, some of you were making plans to attend the 2020 races. I said to not hold your breath, wasn't going to happen.

What is happening is, other entities want to run the track and everything about it, and the county commissioners are purposely making things hard for SCRAMP, the entity that has run Laguna since its 8th year. SCRAMP is the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterrey Peninsula. SCRAMP's management ends on December 31, 2019.

Laguna is legally bound to have only 7 "noisy" races per year, as they have been sued by local residents for the excess of noisy races over the years. The track, now the county, are legally bound to offer a free vacation to all those that sued the racetrack for the noisy races, for all 7 events. They are offered a chance for a fully all expenses paid vacation, 7 times a year, to where ever they want to go.

Don't count on SCRAMP., nor any other reasonable entity related to motorcycle races getting a venue ever again at Laguna, those ready to take over, just do not want it. Too bad, Laguna was one of my favorite race tracks of all time.

Of course, everythning always has a chance, but this one is looking really out the window.

I've been working on Indy and smaller cars there since '83, Laguna was one of my favourite tracks as well. So many tracks bite the dust because of local home owners that buy houses close to the track, knowing that track is there, and then go about trying to get the place shut down. It's awful. If you don't like noisy race events, then don't buy a property within earshot of a race track. My workshop is as close to the Indy 500 track as is possible, my back fence is the Indy property. I would never consider complaining, let alone taking legal action when I bought the place, knowing it would have noisy days here.

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1974 Kawasaki H2B 750, 1981 Yamaha XV750 Cafe, 1986 Kawasaki KDX200, 2003 Honda XR100, 2004 SDG140. 2006 Ninja 500R Turbo intercooled fuel injected.

Laguna's biggest problems have been two-fold, SCRAMP is the first, they started with a very serious chip on their shoulders, attitudes fully against motorcycles, the only races should be for their supported cars, and lately, the county officials that want all the revenue from the place, and appease the taxpayers and rich local residents as well. SCRAMP fially came around somewhat, took decades.

Now, there are other persons in the mix, like the former casino owner that wants to run the track HIS way only, with festivals and other non-race car events, and, right in the middle is the race track as the prize.

In my county, the biggest part of making our county a real mess is developers, greedy developers, and greedy land owners inside the county. We just defeated a 5K home developmnt in 145 acres, with commercial and industrial insets in more acreage, in a totally rural area called Stagecoach. Just 10 miles away down Hwy 50, there is Dayton, with the water, sewer and other properties open to the entire project, but, the developers do not want to change their ways. Local Stagecoach residents have been opposed to this project since its inception, and the developers have revised their plans, on their own, putting this whole mess off for over 3 years now. They keep finding more tings to "revise" to make more money from the project.

Then, we had the people getting kicked out of an area close to a semi rural area in Southern Oregon, wanted to come to Stagecoach to add a (NO KIDDING) TIGER RESCUE AND HABITAT. LIVE TIGERS. I have had experience handing tigers, decades ago. I had a rider named Harry Klinzmann, his father Alfred was a lion and tiger, big cat handler just after WWII, and when Japanese Deer Park in Buena Park, Ca., closed, we took 11 lions, 10 tigers and two black panthers onto his fenced off tennis court in Garden Grove, and worked them for two years until they were all adopted to zoo's and other entities all over the world. Alfred was a fully licensed big cat handler, and I ended up helping. The very first thing I learned from Alfred, it doesn't matter if you get a good rapore with a cat, even if you had them for a companion since their birth, NEVER enter any area they are in without both a knife and loaded, ready to fire gun, period. This measure was defeated 5 - 0. The reason Stagecoach was selected by the handlers, the property was so low cost, it wasn't funny, and, the REALTOR pulled fast ones on the tiger people and local community, all for the highest money gain she could get. It failed, thank Heaven.

Our county in Nevada is the fastest growing county in the state, and one of the top 5 in the nation, and it is insane for the rural areas. Developers, and some county officials seem to welcome what is coming, way too many people, places and housing. One of our county commissioners that just got re-elected is in charge of all development in Silver Springs, a realtor, and that is where the new transportation hub is for Reno, Carson City, and other areas here. She is literally behind every development project, because she will financially benefit from it.

So, as I said, don't expect Laguna to escape from the disasters the county government, and other persons with self interests to let Laguna Seca...BE LAGUNA SECA.....ever again. Although I would love to see it the way it was, it isn't looking good for motorcycle racing at Laguna. I hope I am dead wrong on this one.

2020 WSBK Calendar Released: No Laguna Seca