Darren and Kerry's cars are in the same configuration as last year! How come the different readings and how come the adversarial response to Darren's attempt to go slow past the recording area! There were over twice as many entries for the NSW champs as the Shannon's National SS round! This kind of bully boy tactic won't enhance numbers! Why is the Moto GP given dispensation! They are regularly over 120db !!
Scott, if it was a Vic. State Round the result would have been the same. Nothing at all to do with the fact that it was a Shannons Round. I know in QLD at Lakeside they currently have a stricter noise limit that pretty much precludes SS's in their current form from even looking like racing at the place. The circuit has a system of "noise credits" or similar allowed by the EPA (or whatever organisation monitors them).
Maybe the PI circuit owner wants to make sure he has enough credits up his sleeve for the Moto GP round? (I am unsure of the system in Victoria and how it works in terms of noise).
Once the circuit exceeds their allowed quota of noise breaches or "credits", they are forced into a "please explain" situation and are fined quite heavily for breaches. I'm talking big $$$$$$.
Nothing to do with CAMS or the Promoter, it is the Circuit Owner that has to cough up when the local residents complain.
FWIW, as a fan and a purist, I hate the whole idea of 95dB and I don't agree with it because it's not like we race every weekend! We often have floggers on open exhaust choppers roaring up our street at home on a regular basis that would easily exceed the dB level of a Kerry Baily or Darren Hossack fly by!
