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Personally if I'm standing at any one point on the track I don't hear the 'too loud' car for any more than a short burst. Different if every car in the run group is too loud but if it's one or two cars I'll hear them for 5 seconds per lap when they fly-by and that's about it.
I would actually consider Mission's location relatively far from residential areas and the fact that it's basically separated by fairly large trees helps a ton too, we don't have that luxury at the Pitt Meadows pad being an airport and all. I would also say that the time frame of track days usually fall within normal working hours (M-F;9-5) and that the nearest residential areas are much closer (and far less protected) to the noise pollution of the busy highways filled with commercial trucks during those hours that the track day noise is negligible. Again, in contrast with the pitt meadows pad location you're looking at much lower volume single-lane traffic especially on the weekends, autox noise is much more significant of an impact.
I'm not saying it should be a free-for-all but recognize where there should be a degree of discretion, and for the most part I'd also say that track day events have been pretty fair with noise control at Mission. We shouldn't wait for neighbours to complain in order to enforce rules but at the same time we shouldn't force ourselves to make it more than it is. Honestly it's not a big deal for me as I'll probably track at Mission maybe once more in the foreseeable future and both my cars are pretty tame noise-wise. Officially Mission Street Legals night which runs until 11PM has a 90db limit, a stock GT500 will probably go over that and they come a lot louder than that...
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