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Supersonic1
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Location: Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA
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JK Speedway
So now that Jay's got his dirt track, do you think he'd rent out the place to some legit racing series looking for a place to race, or will he just leave it to him and his friends? Personally, if I were him, I'd try to find some way to make some cash with rentals and stuff. Plus, it'd pretty funny to see some real racers go at it in some guy's backyard. Just a thought.
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Serge
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| Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 19:58 |
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hmmm don't know... isn't he only allowed to have 14 races per year on it? He'll probably want to save those for himself 
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PietroChocko
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 00:32 |
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| Serge wrote: |
| hmmm don't know... isn't he only allowed to have 14 races per year on it? He'll probably want to save those for himself |
exactly Serge. if you wanted to rent out a race track, you need to get insurance, motorbody approvals, council approvals, people to run the thing.... it goes on and on. |
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monisum
Joined: 30 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 21:34 |
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I don't think Jay needs the cash from renting the track to other people...but I am sure if he wants to use it for races with others he has enough lawyers and people to care about insurences and that things.
But mainly he built the track as replacement for being banned from driving. I think he will not have the time to use it 14 times until the rest of this year and next year there are not so much more months left until he gets his liscense back...so I think 14 times are enough too?
Anyway, when he gets his liscence back he will enjoy driving his real cars again and then comes the new album (let's hope so finally!) and tours and a lot of promotion work...so I think that race track will loose it's attraction a bit 
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EvoV
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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Location: figueira da foz - Portugal
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 23:57 |
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A green light for Jay Kay's kart track
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JAMIROQUAI frontman Jay Kay is to be allowed to built his go-kart track on land near his grade-II listed manor in Princes Risborough.
But council officers have ruled he can only use it on 14 occasions each year.
The flamboyant singer had applied for permission to create earth bunds in a field in the grounds of Horsenden Manor, the country house he owns.
Neighbours, who say they already suffer from his love of cars and speed, objected to the plans saying the noise of go-karts would make their lives intolerable.
Councillors finally gave the go-ahead at a Development Control Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 17th.
One neighbour, Henry Shaw, said: "This is a serious facility for a dirt-racing track.
"It is fast and it is intended to be permanent. It is not for children but determined adults. The applicant is known to have a passion for fast cars.
"I was woken at 7am on Saturday by a BMW being flogged around the field. Who is to say what more powerful machines may be used?"
But despite people's worries, councillors decided they did not have the right to stop Jay Kay building his earth bunds.
Only if he used his track so often it became what was known as a material change of use, could council officers intervene.
Cllr Hugh McCarthy said: "This is a landowner who wishes to use part of his land for his own enjoyment and this application has been considered on the basis this has been for landscaped bunds."
Cllr John Dalton agreed.
"This is a straight forward application for earth bunds. Nothing more, nothing less. What he does with them is subject to a different point of view.
"You would have difficulty seeing the bunds from any distance. We are really making a mountain out of a molehill."
Council legal advisers have decreed that anything more than use 14 days a year is likely to be considered a change of use.
In September the 34-year-old singer was banned for six months after being spotted by a police car doing 109 miles per hour on the A9 in Scotland. |
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