Atlanta took the place of the Kentucky date.
I think I qualify under the happy Atlanta has 2 dates again camp. Glad they are back to 2, I have always enjoyed the racing there.
You mean like Andy Hillenberg's bank account?
Last I checked Andy and I dont share money
My dad and I knew what we were looking at long before it withered on the vine. Find me another high-banked 1-miler with a front dog leg that's paved with cheese graters.
) I applaud the decision to overhaul Fontana.
I haven't invested a dime. I haven't invested a single emotion, I'm not even upset. I thought we were all just discussing in a safe place
Well I am also interested in reconfigured tracks, there's one in Joliet id love to talk to you aboutMy dad and I knew what we were looking at long before it withered on the vine. Find me another high-banked 1-miler with a front dog leg that's paved with cheese graters.
It's not that racing should return to these outdated rural NC tracks as much as any new or reconfigured tracks should match NW and Rock as closely as possible. (I suggest starting with Talladega
Rockingham is in about as south as you can possibly go in North Carolina.
A missed opportunity, along with Sparta. But reconfiguring takes money; street courses shift much of the expense to the host city.
You missed the point. Again.
Hey, watch it! Less than 10 miles east in Hamlet, there's a world-class rail freight yard featuring an ever-changing display of the east coast's finest graffiti! When the wind is right, you can hear the howitzers at Ft. Bragg.
My dad and I knew what we were looking at long before it withered on the vine. Find me another high-banked 1-miler with a front dog leg that's paved with cheese graters.
It's not that racing should return to these outdated rural NC tracks as much as any new or reconfigured tracks should match NW and Rock as closely as possible. (I suggest starting with Talladega
Exactamundo. Pump all $30M into local tracks. That's enough to resurface a few of them, or upgrade the fan facilities, or put in a mini-golf for family members who aren't race fans. NC could market them collectively, like KY does with distilleries and horse farms, throwing back to the moonshine-running days. Offer a multi-track ticket package. Give the kiddies one of those 'passports' they can have stamped at each track. Bring in some tourist money across the state all summer, instead of to a couple of spots with uncertain weekends and futures.
No I’m afraid in you missed my original post in an effort to try to make me look stupid. I’ll add my initial repeated posts here and you can tell me where I said Cup racing each year at either track is a viable option
my initial post on the matter. I didn’t say anything about Cup. A NASCAR sanctioned series yes.
a few hours later. I even say here I don’t think Wilkesboro it will be added to a schedule. I don’t convey anything about hoping or expectation for Cup at The Rock either.
this is today. So what point are you making that I’m failing to grasp? I don’t have a false hope for Cup at all. An All Star race maybe sure. But not an actual yearly stop on the schedule, that’s probably not gonna happen. You’ve mentioned Andy to me again today and before in the past as well as to others when The Rock is brought up. He was making an entrepreneurial move in trying to get the Rock up and running before. He failed and that’s that. People fail at a business everyday that’s the breaks. While I have empathy I also don’t really care, doesnt didn’t affect me in any way.
The initial second week of July date worked. Not much going on sports wise besides baseball here, I thought it had a good spot in the schedule. A bit hot but they had lights installed around 08. Where the track ran into trouble was the rotation of dates first on NFL Week 1 Sunday (big mistake) then back to end of July no night race.I could swear there was an August race in there somewhere
Andy's failure makes it less likely anyone else will attempt it. His was a reasonable effort, both financially and managerially, but it was only a few years before even ARCA stopped coming. Hell, LeMons and ChumpCar cancelled dates; they go down the road to Kershaw now.
The Location looked liked it was working the first 10 years NASCAR had races there and it was packed. I’m not sure I buy your theory, that place was legit sold out the first 10 or so years
I can’t say definitively if anyone is going to try to have racing there we don’t know for sure. I guess that’d be a question to ask the current owners. When or if those fellas get their 10 million “What are your intentions with this money?” Just because it failed for someone is it going to fail for others? I would guess the current owners are going to have to answer that themselves
Yea we had that package too. Felt bad my dad had to buy everything, it was a pretty penny. Shame that fella didn’t go to the Indy Car races, to be honest those were always insane in person...I always felt it was a better show than Cup. I think INDYCAR/IRL had their season finale at Chicagoland once or twice
I wasn’t “trying to make you look stupid”.
Ah I felt like you were, not trying to jump on ya. I would hope some type of racing returns, but in a way you might be right: I haven’t brought up the state has to pass legislation for these tracks to get the money. I might be jumping the gun in that if nothing gets passed then the conversation is for nothing. Someone brought up up above currently operating short tracks in NC should get the money, I like that idea a whole lot.
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Wasn't just Hillenburg. My neighbor Silas was also invested. Bryan Silas was a actually a fairly decent truck racer who fell off the charts when all this went down.
With the 550 deal at Homestead, I prefer this move. Pheonix provides good racing all the way through, no issue here.
I've said it before but I hope NASCAR starts a rotation of championship races between Phoenix, Homestead, new Fontana, and Atlanta. Championship races in big markets. It'd really give more of a big race feel mimicking how the NFL rotates the Super Bowl to different cities each year and how College Football rotates their National Title game.
Pass I remember the year they made the spring Phoenix race 600 kilometers and that was too long
@Revman in shambles.
I prefer Phoenix over Homestead but think neither are deserving of the finale, especially if the finale isn't run on a rotational basis. I would put Atlanta, Darlington, and Martinsville as my top choices
