building a race track

[tweaked]

For those that don't know I a member of a club the puts on a drag race every year. For 15 years we held a 1/4 mile race on our local airport. We moved to a street in town for 3 years while they did upgrades to the local airport. Our airport has no scheduled flights and is more industrial. We didn't realize that some politicians were plotting against us to not come back to the airport. We spent a lot of months fighting to get back but it will never happen again. 2019 we canceled our race in town as construction of a new sawmill where we parked race cars and loss of drive after being defeated on going back to the airport. We made plans to go back to the street in 2020 but shutdown because of covid. Currently trying to race on an industrial road and I'm trying to buy an old mill site off a forest company for a permanent race track. We presented today in front of city council for the industrial road and the old mill site is progressing. They where positive and support our plan.

Hoping there is change in the wind and we can hold a race locally again. Huge economic boom for our city. We are an old saw mil, papermill, forestry and fishing town. The race brings many people and a lot of race cars and everyone spends money. The most we had was 291 cars and that was about 50 to 70 to many. We have always had a waiting listing after the 3rd year.

Roger

[tweaked]

Pic from the airport days.

[Boss/Cyclone]

That awesome, keep us updated. Any chance us Comet guys can get on the list once everything is up and going?

[SASSY]

Look forward to updates,, ROADTRIP!!
Fred

[Joe Travers]

That's very cool, Roger! Good luck in your ventures.
Litigious times have prevented a lot of good old-fashion fun. Can't say I blame private owners from balking at hosting racing events.

Your story reminds me of the drags at an old abandoned airport that was a mile from where I grew up in the forest. I would hear them run on Sunday afternoons when the weather was favorable. It was build by the military and used during WWII but fell into disrepair by the 70's. Law enforcement eventually caught wind of it and shut it down.

JT