Last year Colorado lost 3 road racing facilities and it is becoming quite
the effort to make 1 new one. Do not see anyone being able to eclipse the
effort on Tooele, UT.
Bill
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:48:33 -0400 (EDT) "Robert M. Lang"
<lang@isis.mit.edu> writes:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Joe Guinan wrote:
>
> > Hey Bill - Is this event going to be on a dirt track? I just
> drove by the
> > location in Hastings last week, and there's not one square foot of
> paving
> > done and there's not a building anywhere. It seems like it would
> be a
> > miracle if they were to be able to finish in time. Here's hoping
> they will
> > "get 'er done" (a quote from a "famous" Nebraskan - Larry The
> Cable Guy).
> >
> > I don't know what is different here in the central states, but
> tracks
> > continue to be built. Kansas City has a huge new Speedway, we
> have a nice
> > road course south of Omaha/Council Bluffs, Rusty Wallace is
> building a new
> > speedway in Newton, Iowa and MPH in Hastings is getting ready to
> open.
> > Maybe it's just that we have the wide open spaces available and a
> relatively
> > low population. Hallett in Oklahoma and Heartland Park in Topeka
> are not
> > too far away for a weekend race. This area of the country may
> become a
> > racer's paradise.
>
> ... kind of makes up for the northeast. There's talk of new tracks,
> but
> the permitting process is extremely painful, and we're pretty much
> loosing
> all the autocross sites because of noise restrictions and neighbors
> that
> are a lot less then neighborly!
>
> That and the fact that the land prices are INSANE - like $200k for a
> 1/4
> acre building lot.
>
> Now, if they just had sea breezes in Nebraska... I might consider
> the
> whole paradise aspect. :-)
>
> > Joe Guinan
> > Fremont, NE
>
> In a State of Envy, from the racing perspective...
> rml
>
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