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Larry Pollard's Abandoned Go Kart Track & Historic NASCAR Busch Series Collection

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Larry discusses the specific regulations that influenced the go-kart track's operation. A state law mandated that go-karts could not exceed 15 mph without requiring helmets, a regulation the track adhered to. This, combined with constructed hills, created an illusion of high speed and excitement within legal limits. However, another regulation required expensive steel guardrails every two feet, along with specific polyurethane piping, making traditional tire barriers insufficient. Complying with this would have cost thousands of dollars, contributing to the track's eventual closure. Larry also mentions an amusing anecdote about a state trooper using a radar gun to verify the go-karts' speed, confirming they were within the legal limit.

Goal: Understand the impact of regulations on track design and operational costs.

Tools and materials

Polyurethane Piping — Required for expensive regulatory-compliant guardrails
Steel Posts — Required for expensive regulatory-compliant guardrails

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state law it's for not having helmets and for for not having helmets it's got to be 15 or 16 yeah and and at 17 they jump so it worked out perfect for no helmets 15 M hour and they gave you a pretty good ride over the hills you know it was kind of a deal working within the rules and the the trooper come down here one night and they parked on that road down there and they had the radar on the backstretch to see how fast they're going and they were 15 mph so we were perfect on our speeds and with the heels it made it feel like you're hauling butt you know I mean so it was a it's a neat deal it it worked out really good did you build the hills up with dirt and then put concrete over them y I'm sure there was a little bit of a engineering involved oh yeah figuring those out oh Monty Payne he he did them there's two all that it's all that is a big hill that is super cool it's all uh concrete from there all the way around the corner and we we built a bank Corner down there we thought that'd be pretty cool too and it it really it really made it a fun ride with banked corner with a grease on it did you ever have your own like personal faster cart that you come out here with oh yeah oh yeah got one and I put two Motors on it you should give that video I know it yeah I find it

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