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Nick England, a vintage racer from Raleigh, NC, send me this info
yesterday on the revival of VIR by another vintage racer, Harvey Seigel.
So we may have another track to race on soon. I haven't been to VIR in
exactly 30 years!
Here's the WWW site for the VIR Motorsport Country Club
http://www.virclub.com/
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From: Nick England <nick@cs.unc.edu>
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Subject: Re: VIR info wanted
Danville Register & Bee Online
Wednesday, September 23, 1998
Another VIR?
By JOBY NAHAS
Staff Writer
HALIFAX - Plans were announced Tuesday night to
recondition the Virginia International Raceway in Halifax
County, a part of the county's history which last closed its
gates in 1974.
Blue Chip Racing Resorts Inc. of New York, N.Y.,
announced its plans at a Halifax County Planning
Commission meeting Tuesday to turn the track into a
membership-only country club. Developer Harvey Siegel,
who is in charge of the project, said he plans to have VIR
Motorsport Country Club up and running by the fall of
1999.
"It's going to be the largest thing to hit Southside Virginia
in the last 20 years," said Robert Love, Geographic
Information Systems coordinator for the county's planning
and zoning department.
Siegel announced plans to open the first phase of the site
within the next two years as a membership-only road race
course. Future plans call for the track to evolve into a
country club with full amenities.
"He's looking at 1999 to be the first season," Love said.
The 3.27 mile-long track, complete with 14 turns, is
situated on some 1,100 acres on Pointer Road in Halifax
County just north of Milton, N.C. Siegel said he plans to
divide the current track into two sections, one for driver
training purposes and the other for members to use for
racing.
Love said the track cost about a half million dollars when it
was first built in 1957, and Siegel added that the total cost
for the project will likely reach into the millions.
A commercial developer for 35 years, Siegel stumbled
across the track when his club asked him to seek out new
ventures. "I liked the track," he said, "and I also happen to
love motorsports."
Since that time, he has leased the property from the owners,
the Foote family, for the next 100 years.
Siegel said he plans for the track to be a racing facility for
vintage sports car drivers, current sports car drivers and
active sports car racers.
Before it closed, Virginia International Raceway was a
popular site for many Danville residents. Drivers such as
Roger Penske and Caroll Shelby tackled the curves of the
raceway in their vintage sports cars. Many spectators
flocked to the track to enjoy these races during an era which
marked the height of sports car racing in the nation.
The developers plan for the second phase of the site to
include a club house as well as other luxuries including
swimming pools, tennis courts, a fitness center, hiking and
biking trails and a sand volleyball court.
An equestrian facility, skeet and trap shooting ranges as
well as residential villas are possible additions for the
future. "They are contemplated for about three years after
opening," Love said.
Siegel added that the development will have a major
economic impact on Halifax, Pittsylvania and Caswell
counties as it will result in long-term employment for area
residents.
"It will be a very significant impact on employment," Siegel
said. "When you have a permanent track facility ... and a
permanent country club facility, you've got to have a staff
that will be in place year round."
Copyright 1998, The Register Publishing Company
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