Editor:
I’ve watched the racing at the Spokane drag strip that Doug Hockley cited; but it now belongs to Spokane County because, despite a county population of half a million straddling the Highway 90 artery to Seattle, the owner and club investors could not pay off the costs.
Does Sechelt council really believe that our Coast’s 30,000 population, scattered along a highway to nowhere, can fund a from-the-ground-up private motorsport facility? Surely the councillors have more business gumption than that!
I have flown into and out of Oslo’s chief airport, Gardermoen. Looking down, I saw Norway’s premier drag strip, one of Europe’s fastest tracks, which occupies a disused runway. If Sechelt expands the airport, our tiny existing runway will not accommodate big planes, so why on earth can the drag racers not continue to use it?
The onus is on Sechelt to prove that the SCDRA could not use the airport, now or in its expanded version. So far we have heard nothing to contradict its occasional use by the Coast’s enthusiasts.
David Kipling, Gibsons
