Racetrack Revival — Round 2

[Barbecueboy]

Cool little kart track built in there…..

[Escobar]

The Ritchie Co Fairboard must have gotten paid. Parking will be the best race of the weekend.

[Barbecueboy]

A friend of mine that lives up there said the exact same thing…..

[dirtcrazy4u]

Big Jim Dunn is laughing at all of you. For those that have no idea, started last, and at the end of the race he was the man parked on the front straightaway winning what was then a huge payout.

[JabberJaws83]

Big Jim Dunn is laughing at all of you. For those that have no idea, started last, and at the end of the race he was the man parked on the front straightaway winning what was then a huge payout.

One legendary story, one legendary race, one legendary racer.

Doesn't make it a legendary racey track.

[Pennsboro32]

The Ritchie Co Fairboard must have gotten paid. Parking will be the best race of the weekend.

Parking will definitely be the biggest issue. I'd love to see the blue prints for everything.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Parking will definitely be the biggest issue. I'd love to see the blue prints for everything.

Parking was always a huge issue and the cops had no issues giving everyone a ticket for illegal parking. I recall outsmarting them with the correct colored paper on the windshield.

[Pennsboro32]

Parking was always a huge issue and the cops had no issues giving everyone a ticket for illegal parking. I recall outsmarting them with the correct colored paper on the windshield.

Nice. It'll be an even bigger issue now I believe. They've taken a lot of pit parking up with the bathroom, go kart track, and another building inside turn 4. There's just nowhere for spectator parking.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Doesn’t Carl Short own (or did own) some adjacent acreage??

[Pennsboro32]

Fox, yes he owns around 20 acres above front stretch hillside.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Nice. It'll be an even bigger issue now I believe. They've taken a lot of pit parking up with the bathroom, go kart track, and another building inside turn 4. There's just nowhere for spectator parking.

I was a vocal detractor of bringing WVMS back as a big track. I see this effort as a whole other level of wasted effort. I don't wish failure on them, I just don't see any other outcome.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

If XR and z Marcus Smith put enough $$ into it - it could work - but the primitive facilities I think are a thing of the past in today’s world. The teams and most fans expect more than what the track offered in the past. My question is: are their plans to be a special events track and is there Federal Covid $$ involved like North Wilksboro??

[squaredup12]

I’m wondering if Nascar isn’t funneling at least some amount of money into this since the dirt racing was nixxed as part of the North Wilksboro effort. As someone who has never been to Pennsboro, my natural inclination is to wish them nothing but the best. But as somebody who has witnessed plenty of snoozer races at large tracks this year with the ever changing technical marvels we refer to as super late models, I can’t help but join in on some of the skepticism. For what it’s worth, I hope they do it right, and I hope whoever is backing this effort is willing to pump and bunch of money into it to that end.

[Paradox28]

I guess I still just don't understand the point of reviving something if its going to be a totally new thing by the time the revival is done. Wilksboro made sense..it still works. Nothing about Pennsboro seems that it would work today.

[muddy mike]

I got to agree with a couple others on this thread. I wish it was Belle Clair.