Clay Valley Closing

[ShawnStreet]

Add Clay Valley in Coeburn, VA to the list of tracks shutting down.

[AHydro23]

Welp. That didn't take long.

[ShawnStreet]

No it didn't. But they did it to themselves. Horrific PR and track prep will do that to ya.

[Clayton_Wetter]

The must not have been able to afford water for the track. Oh well!!!!

[brsteg]

Didn't look like they went too skinny on the water?

https://youtu.be/KW-zZy7M8Zs?t=8946

[nc mudcat]

No it didn't. But they did it to themselves. Horrific PR and track prep will do that to ya.

I think maybe location had something to do with it, personally. They had no cars for the first race, before anyone knew how bad the surface would be.

[Clayton_Wetter]

The video didn't look bad, is the surface really that bad?

[ShawnStreet]

The video is from their second race I believe. This was way up in the night after they were forced to rework the track around 9 pm. I'm having trouble uploading pictures so hopefully they will load up this time so you guys can see what I'm talking about. The one picture was from week one and the one with the modified was during hotlaps the day the video was shot.

[Clayton_Wetter]

Shawn you might have to shrink your pictures before you can put them on here. If you can't then send them to me.

[ShawnStreet]

Maybe this link to work to show you guys just how bad it could get at Clay Valley. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

[ShawnStreet]

nc mudcat, location isn't perfect that's true. There were no real local cars, which is what killed it when it was asphalt too I believe. Had the track been in good shape, they are in a corner of VA that could pull cars from WV, KY, TN and VA.

[Clayton_Wetter]

Maybe this link to work to show you guys just how bad it could get at Clay Valley. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Oh sh!t!!!!!! That is horrific!! I really don't know how you can excuse something like this. Was there a hanging tree around!!!

[One Man Gang]

Oh st!T!!!!!! That is horrific!!

Somebody might want to consider switching that somb!t(h back to asphalt

[Clayton_Wetter]

Maybe route the men's restroom right onto the track!!! hahahahaaha

DUST VALLEY SPEEDWAY!!!!!

[King1]

They were only 20 minutes from Ky and east ky has a lot of cars. They had a golden opportunity to make an impact but they didnt know how to water a track, had no idea how to promote it, knew nothing about the cars, and copy and pasted the rules from Tazewell. Their day show in the dust and changing the super late tire rule after qualifying to accommodate the only car in the field that had hard tires really did some damage, the promoters went and borrowed worn out hard tires from the crate guys just so they could run.

It was really sad to watch them step on their d***s all day. They had no tech inspection for the crates or any other class for that matter and they threw their copied Tazewell rules out the window after a couple weeks. They tried to add classes and take them away just to accommodate people who were promising to come race as opposed to sticking with their guns and creating some consistency. They meant well, but they simply didnt know how to put it together.