The All American 400 Weekend has been canceled and will not be rescheduled. Thank you to all fans, drivers, and crew members who helped keep the track alive for one final season of great racing.
Check back to this blog in the coming months for old pictures and stories from the one and only Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway!
Why is it canceled?
ReplyDeleteand is the Fall Brawl going to be run on Nov. 14th?
Is everyone giving up on saving this historic race track??
ReplyDeleteDon't give up, fight the mayor!!!
ReplyDeletei've only been to the track 3 times and raced on it once, and I absolulty loved being at the track.
ReplyDeleteI AGREE I'M A DRIVER AND I SAY LETS DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO KEEP IT OPEN. I THINK ALL THE DRIVERS AND FANS SHOULD GET TOGETHER AT THE TRACK AND HAVE ALL THE LOCAL NEWS CHANNELS AND PAPERS THERE AND SHOW THEM HOW MUCH THE TRACK MEANS TO US AND THAT WHERE NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT
ReplyDeleteit is a shame!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm disappointed that the last race was cancelled as my family and I were planing on going for a few months. We have only been to one other race there and have been short on cash latley, but had some placed aside for this one last race. I'm very upset I don't get to see another race there. I doubt I'm the only person that, also, has not been all year, but was going to go to this last race. Thanks for the disappointment.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know if that sawed off little runt Formosa is still doing the ride of your life? I was looking to get one this weekend.
ReplyDeleteI cant believe that no one is putting up a fight to save this track everyone should be banning together to do something because i have been to those other tracks and nothing compares to nashville fairgrounds i cant believe that carl dean just does what he wants to and we have to take it if it were the titans they would be trying to save them this is total BS!!
ReplyDeleteI cant beleave they are closing the track. I live in clarksville In. and come to 3 or 4 races a year there and I know several other fans of the racetract from this area Louisville ky. southern In. who travel and stay in motels and shop,eat,ect while there. I had heard that they had a arca race scheuled for this year but it did not happen and I was hoping mebe next year. Please let the mayor know I have never went to the new speedway there and I never will go to cookie cutter track even if they get cup race's.race fans don't give up somebody that knows how to do it get up a internet petition for people to sign with name and city mebe just mebe it would help. I will watch this blog for more info.come on race fans fight to keep a real racetrack not cookie cutter track open.bill
ReplyDeleteOne of the problems is that the media really doesn't care. It is a sad sad day in Nashville that the politicians in this town only see $$$ signs instead of the storied history of this facility. It is like the promoter said, the mayor and cronies have their mind made up already, it seems nothing the fans say will make a difference. Fight this all the way to the wrecking ball if needed. SAVE NASHVILLE SPEEDWAY!!
ReplyDeleteFrom a lifelong spectator and fan of the speedway...
So What are we going to do DRIVERS,FANS,PIT CREWS,STAFF ???????? Sit back and let this happen???? Lets go get up and schedule that meeting with all the media like the other comment that was left and show NASHVILLE just what this track means to us...........
ReplyDeleteBig disappointment.Great track,great racing.It's ashame a place with so much history has to close. Have to wonder who will get what. I suspect there will be a lot of money pass under the table. But that's democracy at work.
ReplyDeleteCannot believe this is happing!!! I live 110 miles from track but still loved to watch racing there . Marlin,D.W. or someone please stop the track from closing!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletethis is crazy, Highland Rim is right across the street from apartment and no one there complains of noise problems. i think that people near the Nashville track just want to feel powerful and have something to complain about, wonder what's going to be their next complaint?. this is sad, very pitiful. i think that this should all be fought, it'll work in the long run i think, because if we all put up a fight long enough the Mayor will get tired of this fight and eventually give up.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is going the same route that Birmingham Fairgrounds Speedway went last year which closed by the city and sold as commerical property. It's now dismantled. Both tracks are steeped in rich southern auto racing history dating back to the very early 20th century. Many of the 60's thru 90's era drivers reciprocated on both tracks and graduated to become NASCAR CUP racing ledgends. Birmingham like Nashville also had locals who voiced complaints about the speedway noise and the city saw it as a revenue source to sell the property for funding the city coffers just as mayor Dean now envisions. Having seen hundreds of races at the Nashville Fairgrounds since early 60's and a few at Birmingham its sad to see this era ending for racing in Nashville. I fear that there will never be another speedway built to replace the present facility.
ReplyDeleteNASHVILLE WILL BE OPEN FOR ONE MORE SEASON>
ReplyDeleteAS LONG AS THERE IS SOMEONE TO BE A PROMOTER FOR THE YEAR
Where are we gonna race? The Government is taking it away and i bet they won't make another track to take it's place. This is the stupid as many people that come and go at this place race go to the flea market they even park the metro school buses on the peoperty during the summer where are they gonna be parked now? they dont think to far ahead i tell you that much. i love this track and i hope and pray that it is not gone foreal. And whatever they build there i won't step foot on that ground once they tear this place down i love it to much and hate to see history get thrown out the window to put money in the mayors pocket. IT'S STUPID
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ReplyDeleteFORMOSA YOU CANT HIDE FOREVER
ReplyDeleteFORMOSA YOU CANT HIDE FOREVER
FORMOSA YOU CANT HIDE FOREVER
FORMOSA YOU CANT HIDE FOREVER
FORMOSA YOU CANT HIDE FOREVER
I have attended many races at the track for many years. It's a great track, but if the track promoters had made the track race prices more affordable, better purses for the winners, more attractive bathrooms, and beefed up the concessions (i.e. cokes with ice); then there would have been bigger turn outs. I think the track is a great one, BETTER THAN RACES AT BRISTOL. I wish the Mayor would show the track some love, fix it up & turn it into a really nice track. A nice track would bring more people in and also more drivers would race want to race there. A win win all the way around. They also needed to advertise the track races(newspaper, radio, tv). These plan developements presented, sure do make the fairgrounds look like a million bucks; but if you took a million bucks and put it into a piece of history, and modernised it; it would be a money maker for Nashville as a whole. It would mean bigger races. Bigger races means more people, more people boost the economy at and around the track. PLEASE SAVE THE TRACK AND TURN IT INTO SOMETHING LOVED BY NASHVILLE, LIKE THE TITIANS, PREDITORS, SYMPHONY, SOUNDS.
ReplyDeleteWhat came of the meeting at the capital building with Sterling? Any hope left out there?
ReplyDeletethere is some hope from what I have gathered.
ReplyDeleteI know a lot of people who went to Nashville to race or watch the races. No more money will be spent on hotels, restruants, gas stations. What does the businesses think of this. They should fight to keep the track.
ReplyDeleteI don't live in Nashville or anywhere close to it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do live in a big city that has a fairgrounds/exhibition property in it. It makes the city a little nicer, interesting, versatile and unique place to live in. You have that there too, a shame more don't realize it.
The most likely outcome for that land will be another shopping mall, mega retail outlet or other such mess and I'd say there are enough of those already. Fight on Nashville and save your fairgrounds; Once it's gone, you can never get it back. Terry in Toronto
Something I have noticed as absent in the above comments: The fairgrounds is SELF FUNDED and receives NO money from Metro! Currently, there are some $2,000,000 in their account, while Mayor Dean is pissing money away simply for studies on the mega-convention center he wants. Sorry, Mr. Mayor! If we need a new convention center and it is as wonderful as your studies are intended to show, a commercial entity will build it! Now, MDHA is trying to use eminent domain to force businesses out of the area you are salivating over, and thereby removing it from the tax rolls! We already have the financial albatross of the existing Convention Center, the Municipal Auditorium, the Arena, and of course The Coliseum. Do you not think that these are more than enough expenses for a city of our size?
ReplyDeleteThe Fairgrounds on the other hand, represent a lot of history dear to the hearts of not only Nashvillians, but of many other Southerners. I will surely admit that recently, things have not been too well organized...BUT now that we have a Fair Board with a real talent for intelligent management, things are markedly better than in many years. The buildings have been updated, made ADA compliant and a new Midway concession operated in this year's State Fair. Attendance was up, and if not for the continual rain, this would have been a very profitable year. The new race track operator, having faith in the City, based on the honesty shown by the Fair Board, invested a lot of his own money in the track and ran a tight ship. This season was a very good one, and I would predict coming years to be even better. Or is that why you want to snatch the whole thing out from under them? Maybe Nashville needs more condos and lofts?
Of course there are many other long term, profitable things happening at te fair grounds all year long. I can't think of a week when nothing is going on there. You really need to re-think this situation! There is more than 100 years of history there, that you want to destroy!
As a final note, the media has cited neighbors complaining about the noise at the track. To them, I would suggest that they look at the overall picture...this is a sport that runs one night a week, and generally is over well before 10 PM. That isn't very late on a Saturday. And, the track was running for years before you even were born. It isn't like they suddenly moved in there next to you.
It is just terrible that our Mayor Carl Dean can just stand up and say, We're closing it down. What do you want here, a mall? Well hell no, most of us didn't want Opry Mills either. What about a subdivision? Uh hello, do we have enough police to keep us safe as it is? And the house next to me has been foreclosed on last year and needs so much work it will be a while before it is sold. So yeah that makes perfect sense. Lets build a bunch of houses and see if they will sell. Will they be section8 like the ones the next block over? My Daddy raced at that track in 1964-65. Davidson County is gettin to be a bad place to live. I would move, but I believe I have already discussed the market for buying houses.
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