And the museum.....

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A 1.1-mile Private Racetrack In His Front Yard -- JALOPNIK ON /DRIVE

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Alan Wilzig, a New York banking scion, built the largest racetrack zoned for private recreational use in the U.S. at his farm in Columbia County, NY. Take a tour of the circuit at Wilzig Racing Manor, featuring nine turns that thread through more than 80 feet of elevation changes, including a 20-percent banked curve. Also on site is a clubhouse and museum for Wilzig's car and bike collection and race shop for his IMSA racecar and racing karts.

 

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[h=1]Wilzig Racing Manor segment from "Epic Backyards" , Discovery TV , Destination America[/h] 12,984 views




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All rights belong to Discovery TV / Destination America / Tremendous Productions Inc. Thanks much for allowing me to show it here for my friends !

 

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[h=1]70 supercars at Wilzig Racing Manor charity event[/h] 3,526 views




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Camp Sundown annual charity event (Xps.org) at Wilzig Racing Manor with Driving Force Club. Over $104,000 raised! Visit XPS.org to donate/read more. https://www.facebook.com/WilzigRacing...

 

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Thanks so much to RTL-TV for allowing us to share this brief segment with our American friends. You were terrific to have as our guests and with whom to work. cheers ! Alan & Karin

 

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[h=1]Breaking News - Banking heir turns backyard into a Formula One racetrack[/h] 171 views




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Published on Nov 26, 2017




There are many things one can do with a backyard: build a swimming pool, start a vegetable garden or create a barbecue area.In the case of Alan Wilzig, he decided to build a Formula One racetrack in his backyard.Sitting behind his 150-year-old Dutch Colonial-style home in Taghkanic, New York, Wilzig built a 1.15-mile-long, 40-foot-wide, bidirectional racetrack highly optimized for motorcycles and cars.According to Wilzig, the course is the only personal-use, professional-quality private racetrack in the world.'You're going fast enough to make your a** pucker,' Wilzig, 52, told The New York Post. 'The f*****g hairs on your neck stand up.'The track contains nine turns, 80 feet of elevation changes, grass-covered boundaries and FoamAir fences outside the corners to soften the impact in case of a driver goes off course.After a motorcycle-riding friend of Wilzig was nearly killed by a car accident, the entrepreneur was turned off by the idea of street-racing.'After 100,000 miles of around-the-world motorcycle-riding without incident,' he said. 'I realized it was only a matter of time before somebody pulled out in a fancy car and hit me.'Wilzig was able to finance his property purchase by selling the Trust Company of New Jersey bank - of which he was CEO, president and chairman - in 2004 for $726million.Wilzig bought his 275 acres upstate in 2005 for $3.35million.'I bought this property with the intention of building a racetrack,' said Wilzig. 'Zoning here allowed for it - unlike in the Hamptons.'When news first broke of the proposed track, neighbors feared noise and commercial usage. A court injunction halted construction in 2007.Eventually Wilzig was able to continue and he completed the course in May 2010 at a total cost of around $3million.Wilzig has had many friends zip around the the track - including celebrity hairdresser Oscar Blandi and film and TV director Ben Younger - but he most often drives with his 23-year-old girlfriend of nearly three years, Clemence Lapeyre.Wilzig says Lapeyre is as passionate about racing as he is.'The most fun I ever had here was this past summer when we raced motorcycles on the track every day,' said Wilzig, who estimates he's completed around 15,000 laps around his track.'I would wake up with my girlfriend at 7 in the morning, watch a live Formula One race from Singapore or Bahrain or wherever on TV, then go downstairs and make breakfast for my 10- and 11-year-old children - who, sadly, do not share my enthusiasm for racing.'After that, Clem and I would spend two hours chasing each other around the track before coming back, making love for a half-hour and then enjoying three or four hours in the pool with the kids. What could be a better day?'And he means it when he says he has an 'enthusiasm' for racing.The entrepreneur has a 'moto museum', a three-story steel-and-glass structure where he showcases his $5million collection of cars and bikes - including Ducatis, Suzukis and Bimotas. He also has a collection of 100 helmets and racing suits.'A guy buys a Ferrari driven by Steve McQueen for $27 million and nine times out of 10, he takes it out once a week so he can drive to the coffee place in Greenwich, Connecticut,' said Wilzig.'Come here and you can actually drive the cars in the way they were meant to be driven. I can't think of anything more fun.' AutoNews- Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...

 

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[h=1]NYST TRACK RECORD ONBOARD CAR WILZIG RACING[/h] 1,773 views




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First day at NYST with my friends for a motorcycle track day. We brought the car to provide some entertainment between moto sessions. I learned the track on my Gixxer that morning. I broke the automobile lap-record by about 2.2 seconds....