Poland’s only racetrack with FIA homologation, Tor Poznań, has just been closed

They also have a problem with the airport. There'll be a ban on night flights (from 1am to 5am) starting later this year. This is one of the oldest airports in the world. The race track was built in the 70s, while the local houses that report on noise were built in the 90s...

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SalvageCorveteCont@reddit

Land use changes over time.

The ironic thing is that the car both accelerates this and ossifies it once it's done so.

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delasarthe@reddit (OP)

Update - decision is waived after facing a huge backlash in all over the internet. Even minister of infrastructure said, that „object like this are elements of education and prevention, not source of dangers”.

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JamiDoesStuff@reddit

Wait 50dB limit? a completely stock economy car will make that amount of noise

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R_V_Z@reddit

50dB where measured, not where created.

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foytizzle@reddit

Talking will make more noise than that

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7xm2@reddit

Polish poltics is funny. As the world's of the poltical party in charge of the place, why should we have a racetrack when we have race tracks In Germany

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niccotaglia@reddit

honestly the track management should release names and addresses of everyone who lodged a noise complaint. Hope they enjoy 2am pops and bangs meets, burnouts and car audio in front of their house for the foreseeable future

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Moth92@reddit

Let me guess, someone wants to build houses/condos where the track is?

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desf15@reddit

Nah, they've already built them nearby, and closure is due to owners protesting about noise from race track. Even though it was operating there for decades earlier.

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J_NonServiam@reddit

A tale as old as time.

See also: people moving in next to airports and complaining about airplane noise

I don't know why these kinds of developments are even approved unless the city is intentionally trying to get rid of a race track or airport.

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desf15@reddit

Funny you should mention airport, because one is located near this track, and they were also protesting against it :)

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eirexe@reddit

I've seen pics from a polish sub with some zoning plans over it, so yes

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Cessnaporsche01@reddit

Or a fucking datacenter...

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PanadaTM@reddit

50db is insane. Normal cars on the road are louder than that

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JapanStan@reddit

An electric car traveling past you on the street at 50mph is probably louder than 50db, with the wind and tire noise it produces.

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Quaiche@reddit

Them heavy electric cars are super loud when they blast over my cobblestone street, it’s difficult to see any difference with the ice cars.

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Rohkii@reddit

And then at slow speed some of them have chimes louder than any new ICE grind-mobile you can buy.

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

Indeed. For a point of comparison, 60dB is normal conversation and 70dB is roughly taking a shower.

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OptionXIII@reddit

61 dB is the quietest interior at 70mph ever tested by Car and Driver, a Bentley.

This racetrack is being closed for being half as loud as a Bentley interior just driving down the highway.

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pdp10@reddit

Decibels drop off logarithmically with distance. It depends entirely on where the measurements were taken.

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OllieFromCairo@reddit

Decibels are weird because they are a logarithmic scale. 60 dB is ten times the energy of 50dB.

The energy is inversely proportional to the square of the distance to the source. This means that each time you double the distance, you drop the sound level by 6 dB.

So if the car is 100 dB at 10 m, it will be 94 at 20, 88 at 40, 82 at 80, etc. You’d drop to 50 dB at 2.5 km.

Now, things like walls around the racetrack can absorb or redirect a lot of the sound, but even if that absorbs or redirects 90% of it, your 50 dB is cut to only a third, so about 800 m in this case.

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ParaMike46@reddit

Very dissapointing news, hopefully some willing politician or public figure will see the sense in keeping this track alive and step up with help and legislations needed!

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Poncho_Sanchez@reddit

There is literall Airport next to the track, nearly fence to fence. Track used to be nowehere near residentail area, developers have bought land for cheap (as becouse of Airport and Track), now people are complaing about noise.
Same story happened with Lublin Track and spare tracks in Poland are becoming less and less, while hooning on the streets becomes strickter and strickter.
In Lublin now where Track used to stand are residentail homes, same probably will heppen to Poznań.

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UltraHawk_DnB@reddit

50DB??????????????????????????? that's not loud at all wht the hell

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thatlittletallguy@reddit

This was the track which The Grand Tour raced at in their Eurocrash special. Sad to see.

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Eggonioni@reddit

Sounds like a bunch of dweeb real estators/HOA-types that need to be wedgied hard.

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UranusMc@reddit

Can't wait for everyone to start complaining about street racing

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Andreas1120@reddit

Homo what?

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Pussyslayer109@reddit

My father used to do a track day there once ayear, with a V12 car producing 116db. Then one day, inspectors came and took tests of everyones cars, and informing them they could no longer drive the track due to noise restrictions. Ironic thing is right next door is an airport, with heavy F-16 activity.

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furrynoy96@reddit

I'm sick of this shit...

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Silly__goober5@reddit

And then they act shocked when someone starts hooning it on the streets