Santa Maria Kart Track
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Scott Grundfor
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- Joined: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:33 am
- Vintage Karting items owned: 1960 homelite spitfire
1960 go kart 400c
1960 percival
Santa Maria Kart Track
As some of you may have heard, an FAA ruling resulted in the closing of the Kart track at Santa Maria Airport on Sept. 1 2010. We finally were able to meet with the FAA several weeks ago and they are unwilling to change the ruling. We have enlisted the help of our US Congresswoman Lois Capps. Her staff seems very receptive and is going to ask the FAA at a higher level to explain the decision. Hopefully this will put enough pressure on the LA District FAA Compliance specialist who has dug in his heels to re think his position. I was hoping to get our club, SMKA, to work with vintage karters and schedule an event at the track. It is a great track and half way between LA and SF. The track and club had been in continuous operation for 52 years.
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Russ Smith
- Posts: 221
- Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:07 pm
- Vintage Karting items owned: 59 BugWasp; 60 GoKart800; Simplex: 60 MKII, 62 MKVI; 69 BugStinger; 67 LilIndian Minibike.
- Location: Corning, California
Re: Santa Maria Kart Track
Don't ya just love it? Overpaid political appointees issue their decree............no explanation given, and it takes intervention by an elected official to even get any reply at all. I guess those idiots forgot that they work for US!