NEWS: George Ray's Wildcat Drag Strip is Up For Sale

[Falcon67]

Re: NEWS: George Ray's Wildcat Drag Strip is Up For Sale

There is no real requirement to carry insurance unless the track is sanctioned. So - what are you and your land shark gonna do? Sue and you get to own a broken down drag strip in the back woods, good luck with that. Run at your own risk pretty much means just that. If it's operated as an LLC, then rotsa ruck unless you can prove, say, that they defrauded you into thinking running down the track wasn't dangerous.

[38P]

Re: NEWS: George Ray's Wildcat Drag Strip is Up For Sale

It only takes one non-Bangshifting "survivor" with an axe to grind in a lawsuit to vindictively shut down the track and ruin all the fun for everyone. I can't imagine too many folks who'd want to put 3/4 of a million dollars at risk on that shaky basis.

I'm all for everyone taking personal responsibility. Sadly, that's not the current view of many of our courts. And anyone thinking of investing big money into a business would be stupid not to take that into account.

But I'm not for sanctimony (unless it's logically consistent). If it's always too "dangerous" to race on a traffic-free interstate highway, then it's clearly too "dangerous to race" before relatively "at risk" crowds at an obsolete relic of a track that would probably cause the NHRA's track inspectors and insurers to lapse into comas if they ever saw it.