Englishtown Closed To Drags

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by Mike Meier

I dunno....ask the owner of Royal Purple Raceway if he cried on the way to the bank with the money they made off of storing Hurricane Harvey cars.

They only leased the track for six months, losing parts of two seasons.

Houston-area drag strip is dumping ground for 30,000 (and counting) hurricane Harvey-damaged vehicles

[Mike Meier]

[QUOTE=Mike Schwartz;554132]They only leased the track for six months, losing parts of two seasons.

Houston-area drag strip is dumping ground for 30,000 (and counting) hurricane Harvey-damaged vehicles[/QUOTE

It was 100,000 cars and they didn't really lose much in the way of racing. They already had their bracket points completed by time the Hurricane hit. They only run Friday T&T's after that, sprinkling in a few specialty races. So they traded a few T&T days that would gross a few thousand dollars in revenues in the millions of dollars in storage fees.

I was told by the girl who administers the bracket points that they'd be open for racing by early March. I drive past there at least 3-4 times a week; it looks like they have the pit side 80-90% cleared.

But back to Englishtown, as the shock and disbelief wear off, I'm not regretting leaving New Jersey nearly as much.

[bsimms89]

Noone has done anything for any politician in particular, we are speaking with different towns trying to find a suitable piece. We Do have the money lined up for when we find a piece of land that will work. I have been attending Englishtown my whole life to view and was planning on racing there this season, so now I’ll be going further. And I was only 14 when West Hampton closed, what was your excuse? If you just want to complain and say that it’ll never get any better that’s fine, but don’t try to stop people that are tryig to improve the situation.

[Mike Schwartz]

BTW, the story hit the Google News sports page for a while on Wednesday afternoon.

Its off now; here's the full coverage

[Chevy55]

Originally Posted by James Perrone

My man GET REAL. The politicians are USING YOU.
You guys have been through this fake bs.
We ain’t getting a track on Long Island
You have no $$$ No Land. No Clue.
Your numbers are inflated. It’s Facebook support. nNot Reality
You guys didn’t support Westhampton. Or English Town
Now we got we we have. NOTHING

Exactly James, there isn't a community on Long Island that would accept a race track. Not one!!!