Inside the Legal Feud Over Noise That Threatened Laguna Seca

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A legal fight over booming decibels put California’s most historic road-racing circuit in jeopardy.

“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”This story originally appeared in Volume 23 of Road Track.So begins John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, one of fiction’s best running starts. Here on Highway 68, it’s grating noise at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca—with the stink of gasoline, as opposed to Monterey’s sardines of yore—that put a nostalgic dream track in legal crosshairs.

“There are too many examples of wonderful tracks where neighbors have been effective at creating difficult operating conditions or shutting it down,” Straus says. At Laguna Seca, I watch Skip Barber Mustang GTs circle. I visit a hut after Turn 5, where Sandy Silveira has monitored decibels for 25 years. Laguna Seca is allowed 36 Unlimited days. Others are limited to 105, 103, 92, or 90 decibels, while California public roads have a 95-decibel max. Organizers pay extra for more aural freedom.

 

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