Eastern time, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, say they will try to send the first beam of protons around a 17-mile-long racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva.
So, almost three years after Alan Wilzig, heir to a banking fortune, began crowing about his plans for his Wilzig Racing Manor, complete with mile-long racetrack, the pitched battle goes on like an acid flashback from the days before blue-chip stocks sold for less than a latte.
Two weeks ago, the center for nuclear research, which is outside Geneva, sent the first beams of protons around the machine's 17-mile-long underground racetrack.
There's the 700-foot-long winding racetrack and a lounge area to the left, a glass-flecked bar ahead, bowling alleys in the distance, and to the right a restaurant ensconced in glass silos, more bars and a sushi bar.
She looked down that long swath of racetrack to the clubhouse turn.
You've got plenty, plenty room, a long stretch; the racetrack's a little deeper".
Two years ago, a wealthy newcomer, Alan Wilzig, asked the town zoning board for permission to build a mile-long paved motorcycle racetrack on his 250-acre property.
Horsemen and horsewomen have long suspected that racetracks have tinkered with the surfaces on the days leading up to big races in an attempt to produce record times when a wider national audience is paying attention.
He won his first race 31 years ago at long-gone Centennial racetrack in Colorado, has been among the leading riders on the Louisiana-Kentucky-Arkansas circuit and even made an impact on the glamorous Southern California circuit, where he spent five years before returning here in 2009.
The odds of the Shinnecock Indian Nation's building a casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack are long indeed.
On an outing to Monmouth Racetrack not long ago she met Pat Lamb of Bloomfield, a comedian who has worked on fund-raisers for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute.
