Toebra
Dork
10/23/20 2:34 p.m.
Snowdoggie said:
They have shut down several drag strips in the DFW Area where cheap racing used to take place. We have also lost an autocross site out at the Mineral Wells Airport. The new road racing tracks around here are basically sports car country clubs for the well healed. Lots of expensive race cars. High membership fees. Poor kids need not apply. The real estate boom here is taking its toll on racing sites. There are about two Lemons/Chump Car events in Texas and they are both in Houston, about 7 hours away. They even killed Cars and Coffee in Dallas a few years ago.
There aren't many places to go in DFW if you aren't in the high dollar club.
Losing venues for auto cross and legal drag racing here in California too. These are not the guys that go legally drag race or autocross.
Has this been discussed a thousand times here already? Pretty sure it has.
Toebra said:
Snowdoggie said:
They have shut down several drag strips in the DFW Area where cheap racing used to take place. We have also lost an autocross site out at the Mineral Wells Airport. The new road racing tracks around here are basically sports car country clubs for the well healed. Lots of expensive race cars. High membership fees. Poor kids need not apply. The real estate boom here is taking its toll on racing sites. There are about two Lemons/Chump Car events in Texas and they are both in Houston, about 7 hours away. They even killed Cars and Coffee in Dallas a few years ago.
There aren't many places to go in DFW if you aren't in the high dollar club.
Losing venues for auto cross and legal drag racing here in California too. These are not the guys that go legally drag race or autocross.
And you know that for a fact? Has anybody actually done research? Compared entry lists at closed drag strips to later arrest records? Anything?
