NY track rumor getting started again

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NASCAR track site on Staten Island has new suitor: International Speedway Corp. is in "exclusive negotiations" with a potential buyer for the property where it hoped to build an 80,000-seat NASCAR track, according to its most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Those documents don't name a buyer or a commitment of sale. But a report in the Daytona Beach News-Journal -- ISC is headquarted in the Florida city -- said the interested party is looking to turn the site into a deep water port logistics operation. "We're cautiously optimistic," Dan Houser, ISC's senior vice president and chief financial officer, told the Beach News-Journal. Despite the information already publicly available, ISC spokesman Charles N. Talbert declined comment when contacted by the Advance. "I appreciate your interest in our property," Talbert wrote in an e-mail. "At this time, we do not have anything to add to the disclosure that is included in our public filings."

from here.
 
yeah that is not a rumor about building a track. that is a rumor about selling off the property for someone to do something completely different with it.
 
I'm from NYC, there is no way that track will ever be built on Staten Island, it had no chance the last time and has no chance ever. The traffic on Staten Island is way too much on a normal day, they want nothing to do with a track like that.
 
StewartHaas-Gibbs Racing said:
I'm from NYC, there is no way that track will ever be built on Staten Island, it had no chance the last time and has no chance ever. The traffic on Staten Island is way too much on a normal day, they want nothing to do with a track like that.
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How dumb is ISC for even trying? Especially when New Jersey has a ton of land better suited for racing less than an hour away.
 
StewartHaas-Gibbs Racing said:
It's because they want a race in the NYC market. They want New York City in the background. It will really be an event here if they pull it off and I'll be in attendance.
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That's because you're an open wheel fan. I go to Baltimore because I like the open wheel races. But how many others will go? How many others care about open wheel racing?

Americans don't like, care about or watch open wheel racing. And the ratings prove this.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
That's because you're an open wheel fan. I go to Baltimore because I like the open wheel races. But how many others will go? How many others care about open wheel racing?

Americans don't like, care about or watch open wheel racing. And the ratings prove this.
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Tons of people will go. People like an event and this will be one. Plus F1 has a lot more affluent ties to it so you will have plenty of people who never even follow a race who will end up at it because they work for one corporation or the other.

Not to mention that other F1 fans around the world will travel to this event. They get the chance to visit NYC and go to an F1 race all in the same trip. As long as they have this race it will draw, and it will draw a lot.

And don't get me wrong I love IndyCar but this isn't IndyCar and it isn't Baltimore. It's F1 in the NYC area. It sells itself.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
That's because you're an open wheel fan. I go to Baltimore because I like the open wheel races. But how many others will go? How many others care about open wheel racing?

Americans don't like, care about or watch open wheel racing. And the ratings prove this.
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120,000 people went to Austin for the USGP, and the races at Indianapolis were some of the most well attended in F1 history, despite being terrible races. Attendance/profitability won't be a problem in the New York market.
 
I think Bernie wants a USGP event with the NYC skyline.

The location is huge, and many people in the world see NYC as America it is their first and primary association , and they would enjoy visiting NYC for a F1 event.
I believe it will happen and apart from the Indianapolis 500 , Indy cars will never receive as much support. There is no comparison in spite of both being open wheeled, and ****pits.

New Jersey could only work with NYC being very visible in the background , otherwise it is just New Jersey with no drawing power for something as huge as F1.

F1 probably will have an event in Moscow two, lots of money to be had, and their grid girls alone will make that worthwhile.
 
Greg said:
I think Bernie wants a USGP event with the NYC skyline.

The location is huge, and many people in the world see NYC as America it is their first and primary association , and they would enjoy visiting NYC for a F1 event.
I believe it will happen and apart from the Indianapolis 500 , Indy cars will never receive as much support. There is no comparison in spite of both being open wheeled, and ****pits.

New Jersey could only work with NYC being very visible in the background , otherwise it is just New Jersey with no drawing power for something as huge as F1.

F1 probably will have an event in Moscow two, lots of money to be had, and their grid girls alone will make that worthwhile.
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Speaking of grid Girls, why the heck can't Bruton spring for some of those?
 
MOEJOE said:
Speaking of grid Girls, why the heck can't Bruton spring for some of those?
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Cause he is the business of screwing fans out of race dates, not some grid girls.
 
I could probably sell apple cores from an apple core cart with the NYC skyline behind me and make some decent coin. With the population numbers they have to draw from, it shouldn't be a problem - not to mention the number of Europeans/Asians that would gladly fly into NYC/NJ for the whole spectacle. It'd become the place to be.
 
I enjoy open wheeled racing almost as much as stock cars, but you wouldn't catch me at Baltimore or St. Pete. It's not the cars, it's the courses. Ovals have spoiled me; I'm used to being able to see the whole track. I might attend a purpose-build road course, but a street course? How can you see anything? Normally I agree that being there is superior, but I'll stick to watching those on the tube; at least the camera angles change.
 
#17D500winner said:
I could probably sell apple cores from an apple core cart with the NYC skyline behind me and make some decent coin. With the population numbers they have to draw from, it shouldn't be a problem - not to mention the number of Europeans/Asians that would gladly fly into NYC/NJ for the whole spectacle. It'd become the place to be.
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..and write it off as business expense. An F1 race with NY in the background would be huge. People who have no interest in racing would tune in.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I enjoy open wheeled racing almost as much as stock cars, but you wouldn't catch me at Baltimore or St. Pete. It's not the cars, it's the courses. Ovals have spoiled me; I'm used to being able to see the whole track. I might attend a purpose-build road course, but a street course? How can you see anything? Normally I agree that being there is superior, but I'll stick to watching those on the tube; at least the camera angles change.
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It's not a race, it's an event.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
It's not a race, it's an event.
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I guess it's all in what one wants for one's entertainment dollar. Me, I don't care about 'events' and wouldn't attend one unless it was something I was already interested in. I wouldn't go to the Kentucky Derby, the Rose Bowl, or Mardi Gras in New Orleans even if I won all-expense trips in my Wheaties.
 
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