Bad Ass NH Track in the Works.
09-05-2003, 01:21 PM
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Has-Been... Was I ever?
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09-05-2003, 01:25 PM
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Has-Been... Was I ever?
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$5,000 Initiation Fee – 1st 50 Members - $2,500
Annual Benefits
8 – Peak Road Course Time Sessions Annually
12 – Off-Peak Road Course Time Sessions Annually
21 Days in Advance to Schedule Road Course Time
Peak Road Course Sessions are: Friday-Monday
Off-Peak Road Course Sessions are: Tuesday-Thursday
Clubhouse Access at Any Time, including for all Functions - See Membership Contract and See CMI membership matrix for details
$2,500/$5,000 credited at anytime towards the Gold or Silver individual memberships
Year Round Rental Garage Available for Storage @ $150/month
Garage Mahal – Daily rentals available @ $95/day
Garage Mahal – Includes an enclosed garage in Paddock area with Dormitory Sleeping Room above garage, central Locker Room & Shower Facilities
10% discount in CMI Racing Store
20% discount in CMI Driving School
Road Course Orientation - Instructor Qualify Ride
Welcome Package Including CMI Hat, Windbreaker with Club Logo
Road Course Time included in Monthly dues of $75/month, $900/year
Additional Road Course Usage is $45/Session
All Road Course Time Sessions are annual, if time is not used it is not-accrued
Road Course Session = 30 minutes standard Road Course session
Annual Benefits
8 – Peak Road Course Time Sessions Annually
12 – Off-Peak Road Course Time Sessions Annually
21 Days in Advance to Schedule Road Course Time
Peak Road Course Sessions are: Friday-Monday
Off-Peak Road Course Sessions are: Tuesday-Thursday
Clubhouse Access at Any Time, including for all Functions - See Membership Contract and See CMI membership matrix for details
$2,500/$5,000 credited at anytime towards the Gold or Silver individual memberships
Year Round Rental Garage Available for Storage @ $150/month
Garage Mahal – Daily rentals available @ $95/day
Garage Mahal – Includes an enclosed garage in Paddock area with Dormitory Sleeping Room above garage, central Locker Room & Shower Facilities
10% discount in CMI Racing Store
20% discount in CMI Driving School
Road Course Orientation - Instructor Qualify Ride
Welcome Package Including CMI Hat, Windbreaker with Club Logo
Road Course Time included in Monthly dues of $75/month, $900/year
Additional Road Course Usage is $45/Session
All Road Course Time Sessions are annual, if time is not used it is not-accrued
Road Course Session = 30 minutes standard Road Course session
09-05-2003, 01:26 PM
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Gas'er!!
Join Date: Oct 2002
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a track for the rich people who dont beat on their bikes...sallies i like to call them...but either way it is going to be sick...maybe i should rack up some more debt on the 600 next year???...or maybe i should just stick with the motard plan!!
Mr. McNeil
Mr. McNeil
09-08-2003, 11:00 AM
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TAMWORTH, N.H. -- A year from now, Rich Hutte hopes to be a regular at his new country club.
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But instead of tooling around the fairways in a golf cart, Hutte hopes to be cranking his $88,000 Acura NSX through a winding road course designed for speeds of more than 100 mph.
If it survives opposition from environmentalists, the 3.3-mile Club Motorsports track could be finished next fall.
The idea is to be able to push a car -- or motorcycle -- to its limits without racing, says Dan Croteau, the club's marketing director, one of its three founder-investors, and a driving enthusiast himself.
"If you have a $250,000 Porsche, capable of extremely high performance, where can you go to take advantage of what that car can do?" asks Croteau, who lives in Salem. "It's like if a great golfer could only go to par 3 golf courses."
The $14 million project on nearly 300 acres is expected to attract driving enthusiasts from far and wide. Though there are road courses for amateur drivers throughout the country that sell memberships, only a handful offer upscale country club facilities, and none are in the Northeast.
Plans for Club Motorsports include a swimming pool, spa, tennis courts, a 150,000-square-foot clubhouse with room for functions such as weddings, and an elegant restaurant and lounge. If things go according to plan, the track would be finished late next summer and the pool, courts and clubhouse would open the following year.
The idea is to give the spouse and kids things to do if they want to tag along.
Julie Allen, director of marketing for Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Va., said her track also offers swimming, with tennis coming this fall, at a race track that was reopened in 2000 after being closed since 1974.
"The whole family can come together, but not necessarily be at the race track," she said.
Croteau said that until now, most private driving courses have catered to drivers only.
"They're often located in sparse, out-of-the-way places, and nothing for other members of the family to do," he said. "We decided to make this a family destination, where husband, wife, and children can come to the same facility."
Market research "indicated this is the right thing, the right time, the right place," Croteau said.
The track would be on busy, two-lane, Route 25, stretching about a quarter of the way up 2,230-foot Mount Whittier. Some logging has been done on the property, which is used by snowmobilers and cross-country skiers.
Critics say the track would bring noise and traffic to Tamworth, population 2,520, and would endanger wildlife, plants and water resources.
Supporters note the town's master plan recommends development along Route 25, and that the town dump, a gravel pit and two logging companies are less than a mile down the highway, which otherwise is lined with forest. They also note the many noisy big trucks that roll down the highway now, and say stands of trees would hide the track and muffle the noise.
And few seem to complain about the summer tourists who already frequent the town, which is four miles from the site.
A special Town Meeting is scheduled for Oct. 4 on a proposed zoning ordinance. If it passes, the track would have to get a special exception to operate. But residents have voted down zoning ordinances twice before.
A public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
Croteau said more than 25 people have joined the club, and there have been hundreds of inquiries, all without any advertising. Membership will be limited to 500 to 1,500, depending on how many people choose higher-priced memberships.
The three levels vary by number of driving days and sessions and cost a one-time fee of $2,500, $10,000 or $15,000, plus $75 to $150 a month dues. Members get a number of half-hour sessions on the course at their convenience and free use of other facilities, except the spa and food and drink.
"I like the concept of a country club," said Hutte, 49, a retired investment banker from Windham. He said he planned to buy a $2,500 membership.
Herb Wise, 64, a semiretired electronic design engineer from Newton, Mass., already has joined as a $2,500 member. Wise, who drives a BMW, said he probably would concentrate on driving and not use the pool or tennis courts.
But both men say a private club and course will be better than driving at race tracks such as Lyme Rock in Connecticut or New Hampshire International Speedway, which uses roads through its grounds to extend its 1-mile oval.
Hutte said driving time at commercial tracks usually is on weekends, requires drivers to join groups and still is expensive.
Croteau said speeds on the new course probably will average 60 mph to 80 mph, but will top out at more than 120 mph. The track's 22 turns mean the experience is not all about speed, he said.
For safety, there will be uphill grades and gravel pits on either side of the 40-wide track. Cars that veer off the course could slow down in the gravel before they got near trees.
Croteau said he expects members to range from rear professionals to people with no experience. Novices will be required to get on-site instruction before tackling the course alone.
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But instead of tooling around the fairways in a golf cart, Hutte hopes to be cranking his $88,000 Acura NSX through a winding road course designed for speeds of more than 100 mph.
If it survives opposition from environmentalists, the 3.3-mile Club Motorsports track could be finished next fall.
The idea is to be able to push a car -- or motorcycle -- to its limits without racing, says Dan Croteau, the club's marketing director, one of its three founder-investors, and a driving enthusiast himself.
"If you have a $250,000 Porsche, capable of extremely high performance, where can you go to take advantage of what that car can do?" asks Croteau, who lives in Salem. "It's like if a great golfer could only go to par 3 golf courses."
The $14 million project on nearly 300 acres is expected to attract driving enthusiasts from far and wide. Though there are road courses for amateur drivers throughout the country that sell memberships, only a handful offer upscale country club facilities, and none are in the Northeast.
Plans for Club Motorsports include a swimming pool, spa, tennis courts, a 150,000-square-foot clubhouse with room for functions such as weddings, and an elegant restaurant and lounge. If things go according to plan, the track would be finished late next summer and the pool, courts and clubhouse would open the following year.
The idea is to give the spouse and kids things to do if they want to tag along.
Julie Allen, director of marketing for Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Va., said her track also offers swimming, with tennis coming this fall, at a race track that was reopened in 2000 after being closed since 1974.
"The whole family can come together, but not necessarily be at the race track," she said.
Croteau said that until now, most private driving courses have catered to drivers only.
"They're often located in sparse, out-of-the-way places, and nothing for other members of the family to do," he said. "We decided to make this a family destination, where husband, wife, and children can come to the same facility."
Market research "indicated this is the right thing, the right time, the right place," Croteau said.
The track would be on busy, two-lane, Route 25, stretching about a quarter of the way up 2,230-foot Mount Whittier. Some logging has been done on the property, which is used by snowmobilers and cross-country skiers.
Critics say the track would bring noise and traffic to Tamworth, population 2,520, and would endanger wildlife, plants and water resources.
Supporters note the town's master plan recommends development along Route 25, and that the town dump, a gravel pit and two logging companies are less than a mile down the highway, which otherwise is lined with forest. They also note the many noisy big trucks that roll down the highway now, and say stands of trees would hide the track and muffle the noise.
And few seem to complain about the summer tourists who already frequent the town, which is four miles from the site.
A special Town Meeting is scheduled for Oct. 4 on a proposed zoning ordinance. If it passes, the track would have to get a special exception to operate. But residents have voted down zoning ordinances twice before.
A public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
Croteau said more than 25 people have joined the club, and there have been hundreds of inquiries, all without any advertising. Membership will be limited to 500 to 1,500, depending on how many people choose higher-priced memberships.
The three levels vary by number of driving days and sessions and cost a one-time fee of $2,500, $10,000 or $15,000, plus $75 to $150 a month dues. Members get a number of half-hour sessions on the course at their convenience and free use of other facilities, except the spa and food and drink.
"I like the concept of a country club," said Hutte, 49, a retired investment banker from Windham. He said he planned to buy a $2,500 membership.
Herb Wise, 64, a semiretired electronic design engineer from Newton, Mass., already has joined as a $2,500 member. Wise, who drives a BMW, said he probably would concentrate on driving and not use the pool or tennis courts.
But both men say a private club and course will be better than driving at race tracks such as Lyme Rock in Connecticut or New Hampshire International Speedway, which uses roads through its grounds to extend its 1-mile oval.
Hutte said driving time at commercial tracks usually is on weekends, requires drivers to join groups and still is expensive.
Croteau said speeds on the new course probably will average 60 mph to 80 mph, but will top out at more than 120 mph. The track's 22 turns mean the experience is not all about speed, he said.
For safety, there will be uphill grades and gravel pits on either side of the 40-wide track. Cars that veer off the course could slow down in the gravel before they got near trees.
Croteau said he expects members to range from rear professionals to people with no experience. Novices will be required to get on-site instruction before tackling the course alone.
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