If He Builds It.....
Bruton Smith is one of the best things that have ever happened to the NHRA. He builds and maintains the best venues in the country and has done so much for not just drag racing, but ALL motorsports.
His Bristol Speedway, Vegas, Sonoma... are all some of the most beautiful racing facilities in the country. But now, in his latest venture of balancing the motorsports tables by adding a drag strip to his fabled Lowe's Motor Speedway just outside Charlotte, NC, the city he put on the map is now turning against him and have rezoned the area he helped annex to EXCLUDE drag racing. All because of some residents who built too close to the racetracks.
What I believe is at the root of it, is the fact that Concord residents only support ONE type of motorsports, and it doesn't include straight lines or 8,000 horsepower. And this Not-In-My-Backyard mentality is killing drag strips across the country.
This isn't just North Carolina's fight. This is for all drag racing.... all drag racers.... all local drag strips. If this practice continues, before long all our strips will fall victim to the urban sprawl plague.
SIGN THIS PETITION.... its online and it only takes a minute. And tell everyone you know!
His Bristol Speedway, Vegas, Sonoma... are all some of the most beautiful racing facilities in the country. But now, in his latest venture of balancing the motorsports tables by adding a drag strip to his fabled Lowe's Motor Speedway just outside Charlotte, NC, the city he put on the map is now turning against him and have rezoned the area he helped annex to EXCLUDE drag racing. All because of some residents who built too close to the racetracks.What I believe is at the root of it, is the fact that Concord residents only support ONE type of motorsports, and it doesn't include straight lines or 8,000 horsepower. And this Not-In-My-Backyard mentality is killing drag strips across the country.
This isn't just North Carolina's fight. This is for all drag racing.... all drag racers.... all local drag strips. If this practice continues, before long all our strips will fall victim to the urban sprawl plague.
SIGN THIS PETITION.... its online and it only takes a minute. And tell everyone you know!
Posted by Erica Ortiz on Friday, October 05, 2007 at 3:18 PM | Permalink 
this kind of thing happened in my small town of ocala, FL. on a smaller scale though. the guy who owns the local 1/2 mile oval track wanted to put a state of the art 1/8 mile track on the property, and got shut down by the county comission and some angry residents.
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10/05/2007 11:35 PM
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