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Thunder Road in Gilliam, LA closing at the end of July.

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That's a bummer. I like that place. So, no Divisional in September I guess?👎

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Wow! Serious bummer!

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That is terrible. Very nice track but nobody seems to be able to make money there.

Bill

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Hate losing that track. I read the lady (owner?) saying that points race was moving to Ennis.

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Jeff Teuton is it worth buying and keeping it running?

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As I understand, Nelson and Marla have been in a long battle with the landlord. They didn't want to continue putting money on a facility that requires many upgrades. Therefore, as part of the settlement, they had to give up the lease of the facility early.

The rumor mill is that the landlord wants to use the property to build a runway. It also appears that they are working with the city to find land to build a new facility.

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Nice Place. I'm sure Bobby Brannon knows the details. I think he does business with the property owners all 157 Acres of it. I looked at it some time back, but just a little far from where I live and now I'm just too damn old and fat. Interstate 49 Exit at track, not far from Shreveport where 20 goes Dallas to Atlanta, and not far from Texarkana where 30 runs Memphis to Dallas. I 49 runs from Lafayette, LA to Texarkana. Place even has a beer garden.

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Interesting, using the tracks North-South footprint? O'Hare Airport will have ALL east /west runways but two small ones after the Mayor's eminent domain reconstruction;-)

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If the Lucas race moves to Ennis I may put the SS carb on the Super - 10 :)

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Maybe you can buy the beer garden part?

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I have checked, but can not find it listed at Ennis yet. Just wanting to know if the date is the same.

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Marla and Nelson are really great operators for the track. Can not find a better hooking race track. Any day when the track is rented first car goes straight down the track. Truly the track is going to be missed.
The owners of the track doesn't want to do any updates. So sad.
My 2cents worth.

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I remember it as a nice facility with large spiders and red mud when it rained.

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SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION 4 LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES VENUE CHANGE

DALLAS (July 5, 2017) – NHRA officials announced today that the fifth of six events scheduled for the 2017 South Central Division Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series will be changing venues. The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event previously scheduled to take place at Thunder Road Raceway in Gilliam, La., on Sept. 15-17, 2017 has been relocated to the Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. This event will now be conducted as a 2-day (Fri.-Sat.) event on the same weekend of Sept. 15-16, 2017.

The Texas Motorplex event will feature a track operated Test and Tune on Thursday, Sept. 14. Time trials and qualifying will take place on Friday followed by a single time trial and qualifying run on Saturday along with all rounds of eliminations for all classes. Classes scheduled to run include Comp Eliminator, Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street, Top Sportsman, Top Dragster

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Brought it up on google Maps, what a nice place.
We'd die for something like that here on Long Island!!!

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x2

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Really unfortunate that another (good) facility closes. Seems like we will be left with about 15 to 20 places to race.

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Looks like the track may stay in business, but with new operators.

http://www.dragzine.com/news/court-s...e-in-question/