Vroom Vroom!

I guess this means a NASCAR track on Staten Island is not exactly a slam dunk:

The first public hearing on the proposed NASCAR racetrack here turned so rowdy last night that police shut it down in less than an hour.

The crowd — which numbered close to 1,000 people jammed into the Petrides Educational Complex auditorium in Sunnyside — was rude and unruly from the beginning, shouting down track developers and elected officials alike.

Emotions ran so strong that one Staten Island track supporter nearly put a borough councilman in a headlock.

“He doesn’t have a right to that mike!” screamed Westerleigh resident and union official Christopher Wallace, as he wrapped his arm around Councilman Andrew Lanza’s shoulders and tried to yank a microphone out of his hand.

Lanza had triggered that reaction by suggesting that track developer International Speedway Corp. (ISC) shipped construction union members from off-Island to support the Bloomfield project, which would provide jobs.

The two stared each other down while the crowd screamed.

The dispute took place less than 30 minutes into what was supposed to be the public’s first chance to air its concerns about the proposed 80,000-seat racetrack to city officials.

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The tipping point of the meeting occurred when Lanza suggested that track supporters came from off-Island, lured by the prospect of construction jobs.

That’s when Wallace, an official with Union Local 20 of the New York District Council of Carpenters, got out of his seat several rows away, started shouting, put his hands on Lanza and tried to wrest the microphone from him.