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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

Scud.Ig wrote:

Biiiiig concrete walls + newby drivers + 100 crapcans == ??

=== station wagon on it's roof doing 360s while breaking a dude's neck.  Then it caught on fire.

Concrete walls didn't like us too much at Infineon.

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

fifty wrote:
rickerbr wrote:

Memphis Motorsports Park.

Closed it's doors about a year ago. The pits are also infield.

This reminds me of that Woody Allen joke about the women in the Catskills complaining about the food at the lodge tasting so awful and the portions being so small.

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

I think the NPR turnout this year may have been hurt by the short time between it and Eagle's Canyon. I'm sorry I missed EC but look forward to NPR's new track. That said, I would like to drive TWS sometime for Lemons.

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  • From: Jackson, Mississippi
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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

I hope they keep going to NPR twice a year... the next closest track for us is Dallas, which is 8 hours from here.

  • From: Spring, TX
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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

So whens the TWS race in '11?

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

It's only wishful thinking on here. You'll have to ask Jay about it. Next year's schedule doesn't come out til Nov. or so.

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

Mike, you all are out again?

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

I haven't been online as much and am emailing Nick because I suck at the internet and can't find the right button to click, we'll be there.

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  • From: Way down the bayou
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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

mikespeed95 wrote:

I think putting NPR on the radar of interest for anyone in Texas is kinda odd.

From Houston, with truck/trailer, its an honest 4-5 hours down i10 then thru a bunch of little odd backroads between crappy towns that are somehow still segregated.  I used to make that drive a lot back in the day, and it totally sucks with a truck/trailer.  Anyone outside of Houston its even longer.

TWS is centrally located, is seriously 10 minutes outside of College Station, which has more than enough hotels/stuff to support A&M, plus BCS is just awesome.  The paddock space is HUGE, its a legit racetrack.

Seriously, lets go.

Take it easy Hot Rod.

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I think the new Circuit du Bayou will be nice, seeing how they will make it separate from the dragstrip.

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

I agree. There's another country club race track that's building near Nola too that looks fun.

That said, the problem for us is just distance. Belle Rose is a 9-hour haul with the trailer, but Angleton's only 5. TWS would probably be less than 3 hours and Cresson is 90 minutes; you can probably flip those numbers for the Houston-based teams and be pretty close to correct.

Nothing against NPR, but if you want bigger turnouts at the races, then moving one of the two NPR races (or adding another Gulf Region race) somewhere inside your big team populations (Houston and Dallas) is probably a smart idea. You know that we would have at least 80 teams at a new race at TWS or Cresson -- just look at ECR as an example.

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

I thought No Problem might attract some Florida and East Coast teams. 

It's primarily Texas teams.

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Re: Yeehaw should change venue

Yea Troy, we were also hoping for 80 to 100 teams for the New Orleans track. We are going to try to make the Houston Race in September, 6 hours away, with a replacement car for the one I wrecked in May here. I think there are some cars coming from Arkansas to the November race here and it would be nice to get more from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama area. Guess it is taking longer to catch on here. Obviously we hope to keep the two races here next year.