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5/10/2004 3:10 PM
 
User is offline sunndew
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A group of Alabama investors is making a run at NASCAR.

The group plans to approach NASCAR officials next month with a proposal to build a new NASCAR speedway near Foley in Baldwin County.

The speedway would cost an estimated $350 (M) million and could include a host of year-round non-racing venues.

Rick Edwards is one of 10 businessmen from around the state involved in the venture. He says the group has hired a Raleigh, North Carolina-based consultant with extensive sports and racing connections to advise it during the development process.

The group either owns or has an option to buy five sites on the Foley Beach Express. The sites range in size from 500 acres to 1,000 acres.

The state already holds two Nextel Cup races each year at Talladega Superspeedway.

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5/18/2004 5:34 AM
 
User is offline crabbyabby
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(A group of Alabama investors is making a run at NASCAR.)

Sounds good to us locals BUT....    There are too many cities chomping at the bits to be included on the race schedule.  If they expand the race time to just about all year round, it is  possible, but not probable.

If, a big if, they did get one,  it would have to be held in a very slow time to handle the crowds at motel/condos.  To compete with summer tourist would be a mess.  What about hurricane evacuation.  We have enough problems now!  There are a lot of factors to figure in on this one.  I do not think NASCAR will go for it.
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