Money is what shut our local little dragstrip down, it was a little 1/8th mile strip with a roundy round track also, it was out by the airport, nobody out there cared about the noise, most of them were racing anyways, well some developer and the city decided they wanted to put this new mall in, so they did, then all the big builders decided they wanted new neighborhoods, so they did, my buddies dad owned all the landaround the track, a couple hundred acres, old family property, well someone, (the city) decided this was now prime real estate, and wanted to buy him out, he would not sell, so they(the city)decided that he had not paid enough property taxes, the last ten years or so, (they miscalculated) so he got stuck with this bill for unpaid taxes, hundreds of thousands of dollars, that he could not pay, so they repo`d his land, how conveinient for them. Well after that the track got sold, nobody knows exactly the deal (big secret) but the funny thing is they put condos on the land, well the deal got held up cause the enviros wanted the land tested, all the years of oil spills and different fuels made the ground pretty nasty, but somehow money overpowered the hippies and everything went as planned, and now there building condos, all the racers and the ricer guys have been lobbying for a city sponsored track, but to no avail, we had an old airstrip where everybody raced, but a car lost control and killed a bystander so that got the axe too,