{"id":42001,"date":"2015-09-11T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T07:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=42001"},"modified":"2022-12-13T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T09:36:57","slug":"wilzig-racing-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/wilzig-racing-manor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilzig Racing Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK. So you sell your financial business for a little under a billion dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You’re a bit of a petrolhead. What do you do? You build a race track in your back yard, of course.<\/p>\n

John Wilzig is such a man. A lifelong racer and lover of motorsport of all kinds – and latterly a collector of rare motorcycles and racing cars, Mr Wilzig had the vision and the tenacity to realise a dream many of us would share. He’s what we like to call on this side of the pond a bit of a lad. And what a lad!<\/a><\/p>\n

Reports vary on costs – from \u00a34-8 Million dollars for the track in upstate New York, a place known for its wild variation in temperature across the year. This means very expensive tarmac treatments to prevent the surface from breaking apart.<\/p>\n

It took years also, apparently, to gain the requisite planning permissions to build what is the biggest and highest-spec, privately-owned race track in America.<\/p>\n