Topic: Needed on the 2022 schedule

There is a distinct need to have a Lemons race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX. If you have it, they will come.  I would certainly come from California to have an opportunity to run at that racing facility. How do you guys feel about racing that fabulous track?

Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

Can't see it happening.  Very, very expensive track to rent. Chumpcar has said something about having alternating year races at Indy and COTA so you might look to those guys.  Then again they reportedly took a roughly 6 figure bath at Indy last year so maybe not.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

They'll have to be in much deeper shit financially before we can afford to go there. It'll happen, mind you, but it'll take a while.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

therood wrote:

They'll have to be in much deeper shit financially before we can afford to go there. It'll happen, mind you, but it'll take a while.

What about Sandia In Albuquerque?

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

Sandia has scary walls. How about Arroyo Seco in Deming?

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Can we go back to Road America please???  Or BIR???

Pretty please???  I'll bring extra cheese curds

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

DirtyDuc wrote:

Sandia has scary walls. How about Arroyo Seco in Deming?

I'm game!

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Can we have Inde back for 2022?

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I'd love to see Watkins Glen or VIR on the schedule.   I'd like to have CMP back too since it's been repaved, but I understand now the reasoning for ditching that classic Lemons venue,

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Too many blue things to hit at the glen.  Raced carts there a million years ago and have blue paint on my wheels to prove it.

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rb92673 wrote:

Can we have Inde back for 2022?

This would also work for me.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

DirtyDuc wrote:
rb92673 wrote:

Can we have Inde back for 2022?

This would also work for me.

Motion seconded.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

Type44 wrote:
DirtyDuc wrote:
rb92673 wrote:

Can we have Inde back for 2022?

This would also work for me.

Motion seconded.

Plus I hear it has been repaved and is no longer a tire shredder.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

rb92673 wrote:
Type44 wrote:
DirtyDuc wrote:

This would also work for me.

Motion seconded.

Plus I hear it has been repaved and is no longer a tire shredder.

This is a true fact.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

BIR would be much appreciated in this neck of the woods.

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squidrope wrote:

Too many blue things to hit at the glen.  Raced carts there a million years ago and have blue paint on my wheels to prove it.

Easy solution, Paint the car blue.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

Probably a pipe dream but racing Lemons at Utah Motorsports Campus would be neato. 

I'm hoping for a return of Heartland Park too.

Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

Max wrote:

Probably a pipe dream but racing Lemons at Utah Motorsports Campus would be neato.

Lemons did run it when it was Miller Motorsports Park.  I don't know the reason why it isn't on the schedule anymore.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

rb92673 wrote:
Max wrote:

Probably a pipe dream but racing Lemons at Utah Motorsports Campus would be neato.

Lemons did run it when it was Miller Motorsports Park.  I don't know the reason why it isn't on the schedule anymore.

The reason why is that the Miller family was selling the track and it was in legal limbo.  One group won the auction and the auction loser was suing to overturn the results.  It took a couple years to sort out.  Seems like at one point it was questionable as to whether or not it would remain being a racetrack.  I think Jay & Co sort of moved on.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

cheseroo wrote:
rb92673 wrote:
Max wrote:

Probably a pipe dream but racing Lemons at Utah Motorsports Campus would be neato.

Lemons did run it when it was Miller Motorsports Park.  I don't know the reason why it isn't on the schedule anymore.

The reason why is that the Miller family was selling the track and it was in legal limbo.  One group won the auction and the auction loser was suing to overturn the results.  It took a couple years to sort out.  Seems like at one point it was questionable as to whether or not it would remain being a racetrack.  I think Jay & Co sort of moved on.

The last I'd heard—and this was pre-pandemic, mind you—it was still not sorted out in any meaningful way.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

therood wrote:
cheseroo wrote:
rb92673 wrote:

Lemons did run it when it was Miller Motorsports Park.  I don't know the reason why it isn't on the schedule anymore.

The reason why is that the Miller family was selling the track and it was in legal limbo.  One group won the auction and the auction loser was suing to overturn the results.  It took a couple years to sort out.  Seems like at one point it was questionable as to whether or not it would remain being a racetrack.  I think Jay & Co sort of moved on.

The last I'd heard—and this was pre-pandemic, mind you—it was still not sorted out in any meaningful way.

The internet says that it has been sorted, although it sounds like it was pretty screwy for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Motorsports_Campus

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

DirtyDuc wrote:
therood wrote:
cheseroo wrote:

The reason why is that the Miller family was selling the track and it was in legal limbo.  One group won the auction and the auction loser was suing to overturn the results.  It took a couple years to sort out.  Seems like at one point it was questionable as to whether or not it would remain being a racetrack.  I think Jay & Co sort of moved on.

The last I'd heard—and this was pre-pandemic, mind you—it was still not sorted out in any meaningful way.

The internet says that it has been sorted, although it sounds like it was pretty screwy for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Motorsports_Campus

Going there felt like a visit to grandma's house with carpet runners and plastic slip covers over the furniture.  Felt like I wasn't supposed to sit on anything or get anything dirty.  It's a nice facility.

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Re: Needed on the 2022 schedule

cheseroo wrote:
DirtyDuc wrote:
therood wrote:

The last I'd heard—and this was pre-pandemic, mind you—it was still not sorted out in any meaningful way.

The internet says that it has been sorted, although it sounds like it was pretty screwy for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Motorsports_Campus

Going there felt like a visit to grandma's house with carpet runners and plastic slip covers over the furniture.  Felt like I wasn't supposed to sit on anything or get anything dirty.  It's a nice facility.

Mostly I just want to keep nesting quotes, but having the operations sorted is different from sorting out who owns the place. Again, haven't heard anything since we were making the '20 schedule, so maybe that also has gotten better. That said, nobody outside of NASA Utah seems to be kicking down the door trying to rent the road course.

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