F1 Karting Track Update

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August 3, 2007 - F1 Long Island follows thru with the purchase of 12.1 acres of land in Calverton. On Friday, August 3, 2007 F1 Long Island attends closing and completes the purchase of the property to build a state of the art go-kart track!!!! F1 Long Island has finalized*our financing and*is poised to begin building as soon as final "Site Plan Approval" is received from the Town of Riverhead Planning Department.

F1 Long Island is eagerly waiting for comments from the town concerning our fEIS. The town is approximately 5 months past the LEGAL deadline for a reply and blames it on lack of resources. We are patiently awaiting comments from them and their consultants so we may complete the fEIS. The Town of Riverhead Planning department informs F1 Long Island they will run the fEIS and Final Site Plan Approval process at the same time to make up for lost time in their process. While the Town of Riverhead has violated the SEQRA statutes, F1 Long Island will remain a good citizen and work with the town to make up time and refrain from filing a lawsuit against the Town for the time being. We encourage our fans to write and fax letters to the town Supervisor urging him to move this project forward quickly. As we are moving into election time, these letters would be very timely. :) TIME TO SELL MY BIKE AND BUY A RACE KART.

[Tmac]

Native I make up a letter and distribute.Does LIKA have a site?Enzo Racing where does karting community get information,if we could link up.Should letter address board in general?Okay to put the S.M.A.R.T.heading or generic?

[thenative1]

www.f1longisland.com owner is very open to outside help.He is also very determind to see the project get completed.:)

[Whitetrashhero]

Define "outsidehelp" I heard its a counrty club for golf carts.

[thenative1]

DAILY NEWS WRITER

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

The storied Vanderbilt Motor Parkway that weaves through Long Island begat dozens of racetracks in Nassau
and Suffolk counties - venues that have since disappeared.
But the area's affinity for auto racing never faded.
More than 20 years since tracks such as Freeport Stadium, Islip Speedway and Center Moriches' New York
National Dragway made way for housing and development, a new undercurrent of motor sports is creeping
across the island.
"What's going on now is definitely needed," said Marty Himes, 66, who runs the Himes Museum of Motor
Racing Nostalgia. "In its heyday, 10,000 people at Islip Speedway on any given night was nothing. The place
was mobbed."
A Massachussetts-based company believes it could start construction on a F1-style high-speed motorized kart
racing complex in Calverton by late spring.
An indoor go-kart race track is in the works for Islip.
And the granddaddy, a sprawling NASCAR racetrack and entertainment complex, might soon be considered
for some 250 acres of county land in Yaphank near the Long Island Expressway.
"Any type of racing is good," said Himes, who was a Freeport Stadium regular as a youngster. "You gotta get
the kids off the street and give them something to do. Housing and rising property values killed everything
here."
Top Gun Sports and Entertainment Inc., a local company behind the NASCAR in Yaphank idea, would like to
see Long Island surpass its former glory in the auto-racing world.
"For NASCAR, there's a huge fan base, nationally and locally," said Bill Corbitt, spokesman for Top Gun
Sports. "Long Island has a long and distinguished history in motor sports and we would like to make it part of
the future for Long Island as well.

"The goal is to bring nationally recognized events here - something along the lines of the Belmont Stakes."

In the meantime, F1 Long Island hopes to start racing high-speed karts in August. Company officials said the
karts reach speeds of up to 75 mph, and races on the 1-mile track would last up to an hour, with pit stops and
pit crews.

Marc Leibowitz, F1 Long Island's chief executive, said the high-speed kart racing adds a new dimension to
family fun.

"As a soccer dad, I could take my kids to watch them play, but with this, I could actually participate in the
sport," he said, adding that karting is a great family hobby.

Guy Frost, 72, considered the F1 track as an extension of Long Island's auto racing past. "This is going to be a
new venue and a new approach to motor sports. And it will attract the same kind of people."

Frost said Vanderbilt introduced international racing to the U.S. in the early 20th century, and it is only fitting
that a motor sports presence be felt here again.

Speaking from his Bay Shore museum, Himes was giddy as he recalled Long Island's golden years of auto
racing in the 1950s and 1960s, when there were 40 tracks in operation.

"If you showed up at Islip for the 8 p.m. races on a Saturday night later than 6 p.m - forget about it, you were
standing. And we had four major raceways operating at once.

"Anyone who was anyone came through Long Island," he said.

Newsday - March 2, 2006

Kart-track company eyes Calverton

BY LAUREN WEBER

STAFF WRITER

March 2, 2006

After losing its prospective location in Melville, a Massachusetts-based motorized kart racetrack owner hopes to
open a racetrack and conference facility on 12 acres in Calverton.

F1 Boston - doing business here as F1 Long Island - plans to build four outdoor racetracks, two fast and two
slow, and a clubhouse on Edwards Avenue.

"The end of Long Island is an attraction for a lot of people, with the Hamptons, the outlets and wine country, and
Riverhead had already zoned this land for recreation," said Marc Leibowitz, chief executive of F1 Long Island.

The company wants to attract corporate events as well as families and racing enthusiasts.

"During the week, most of the business will be corporate business, like team-building exercises and sales
presentations. They'll use conference rooms for that and then they want an activity," Leibowitz said.

While many corporations opted for golf outings in the past, they now look for something new, he said.

F1's original plan was to build an indoor kart racing center on Spagnoli Road in Melville, close to the office
parks that might have delivered many of its corporate customers. But just before closing on the property, F1 was
outbid by Sears, which now has a service center there.

F1 Boston, a large indoor racing center in that city, is owned by professional racer Richard Valentine, who
teamed with Leibowitz to create F1 Long Island.

The Calverton clubhouse would include a full-service restaurant, billiards and lounges. On the two high-speed
tracks, the karts could achieve speeds up to 75 mph. On the slower "concession" tracks, speeds would top out at 35 mph.

Prospective amateur racers would spend $10 for a license to drive and then about $25 for the minimum 15-lap
race, which lasts around 13 minutes. F1 provides all protective gear, including a racing suit, helmet and gloves.

There would be special karts for children.

The proposal is working its way through the town's approval process. If it receives the necessary permits,
Leibowitz said construction could start in late spring, with racing by the end of the year.

Not all of F1's neighbors are excited about the prospect of a kart track. Leibowitz met with the Greater Calverton
Civic Association recently, where town residents expressed concerns about traffic and, primarily, noise.

"It's probably not the most appropriate place to put this even though it's in line with zoning rules," said Rex Farr,
president of the association. "You have a school, a golf course and a horse farm all within a stone's throw."

"There is concern but there are also people that do want it," he said, adding that the group has not taken a
position on the proposal. Members will be meeting Wednesday to discuss the plan and come up with an official
position.

According to Leibowitz, F1 has planned a sophisticated sound abatement program "with berms, structures, walls
and plantings," to block noise from the tracks. At the town's urging, the company hired Bohemia-based
environmental consulting firm AKRF to study the noise impact and other issues.

Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc.

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I went to F1 Boston a few years back and have to say it was the most fun you can have with your clothes on! The food was pretty good too. I heard about the plan to build the facility in Melville but gave up hope because I didn't think it was a go. Glad to hear they're back "on track" (no pun intended). Can't wait to get behind the wheel of one of those things again.