Did a little e-searching...

[Digger]

... ARCA is going to Rockingham, and it will be LIVE on SPEED.

Anyways, it's a shame (looking at recent pictures) about what's happened to North Wilkesboro Speedway.

Apparently, Bruton Smith is just a pompus who only cares about bigtime money (even though they could sell-out a truck race there). That track can be repaved, turned into dirt possibly, and run racing.

Surely, there has to be some driver or somebody big in racing who can buy the track for $12 million.

But who?

 

[tkj24]

... ARCA is going to Rockingham, and it will be LIVE on SPEED.

Anyways, it's a shame (looking at recent pictures) about what's happened to North Wilkesboro Speedway.

Apparently, Bruton Smith is just a pompus who only cares about bigtime money (even though they could sell-out a truck race there). That track can be repaved, turned into dirt possibly, and run racing.

Surely, there has to be some driver or somebody big in racing who can buy the track for $12 million.

But who?

Andy What is unique about the layout of the N Wilksboro track?

 

[Lap3Forever]

Andy What is unique about the layout of the N Wilksboro track?

Overcoming an obstacle
Gordon misses North Wilkesboro. Not for the atmosphere, but for the track.

It wasn't until the speedway's final race in 1996 that he won there.

"That track challenged me even more than Martinsville did," he said. "I wish some of these guys got to run at North Wilkesboro. These guys, they're always talking about how tough Martinsville is. I'm telling you what, North Wilkesboro was tough. I took a lot of pride that I finally won there.

"That place, I just felt like I was lost every time I went there. I had no clue, and then we won a pole in '95 and that meant a lot to me. Then we went there and won the race in '96. It's always one that stands out in my mind as a great accomplishment."


From the threed "Gordon Still Hungers over Victory Lane" posted by: Muggle Nut

 

[Digger]

Andy What is unique about the layout of the N Wilksboro track?

Uphill going one side, downhill going the other.

Lets be realistic, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will never run at Wilkesboro again.

But I still say Bruton Smith is a pompus ass.

 

[Magnethead]

For all we know ARCA and CTS could do a pair of companion events, rockingham int he spring and wilkesboro in the fall.

 

[Lap3Forever]

For all we know ARCA and CTS could do a pair of companion events, rockingham int he spring and wilkesboro in the fall.

Sounds like a good ideer to me!

 

[tkj24]

Uphill going one side, downhill going the other.

Lets be realistic, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will never run at Wilkesboro again.

But I still say Bruton Smith is a pompus ass.

That's what I was talking about. It is uphill on the back and downhill on the front.

 

[muggle not]

For all we know ARCA and CTS could do a pair of companion events, rockingham int he spring and wilkesboro in the fall.

Why not. Arca has a nice schedule including a road track and 2 dirt races and adding N. Wilkesboro to it would only make it better.

2008 ARCA RE/MAX Series Schedule
Code:
02-09 Daytona Speedway 2.500 mile paved track
04-13 Salem Speedway 0.555 mile paved track
04-19 Iowa Speedway 0.875 mile paved track
04-26 Kansas Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
05-04 Rockingham Speedway 1.000 mile paved track
05-10 Kentucky Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
05-18 Toledo Speedway 0.500 mile paved track
06-07 Pocono Raceway 2.500 mile paved track
06-13 Michigan Speedway 2.000 mile paved track
06-29 Cayuga Speedway Park 0.675 mile paved track
07-11 Kentucky Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
07-26 Berlin Raceway 0.400 mile paved track
08-02 Pocono Raceway 2.500 mile paved track
08-09 Nashville Superspeedway 1.330 mile concrete track
08-17 Illinois StateFairgrounds 1.000 mile clay track
09-01 DuQuoin StateFairgrounds 1.000 mile clay track
09-06 Chicagoland Speedway 1.500 mile paved track
09-13 Salem Speedway 0.555 mile paved track
09-28 New Jersey MotorsportsPark 2.300 mile paved track
10-03 Talladega Superspeedway 2.660 mile paved track
10-12 Toledo Speedway 0.500 mile paved track

 

[barelypure]

And what makes NWilkesboro worth $12M. The Rock only sold for $4M and it needs a helluva lot less done to it to put cars out there than NW would. At NW you'd have to repave and do something with the stands and garages. At $12M it's just not a good buy considering what the payback schedule would look like. Hillenburg will be able to realize his $4M if he can keep Arca and land some other gigs. NW has nothing going for it but a dream of what it once was.

OTOH, maybe Smith will move Lowes to NW. That would torque some off.

 

[muggle not]

The County’s tax roll lists it as having a value of $4.83 million. A few years back Smith argued with the County that it should only be valued at $2.8 million. A sale somewhere between those two numbers may make it worthwhile for a person to put some money into the track and bring back racing, such as Hillenburg is doing at Rockingham.

 

[Go Panthers]

Uphill going one side, downhill going the other.

Lets be realistic, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will never run at Wilkesboro again.

But I still say Bruton Smith is a pompus ass.

I dont think Bruton was the problem with NW not being sold...from what i have heard Bob Bahre wanted the tax value of it, not what it is really worth....now that Bruton owns the full share of it...i see no reason why he wont sell it like he did Rockingham.

I think Bob Bhare was actually the pompus ass in this case.