Talk of a new drag strip in the St. Louis Area!

[JRSully]

Man, how I wish that was happeing on Long Island!!

[markjohnson]

Me and Milchak were at the Mid-America Raceway Reunion over the weekend and there was LOTS of talk about the new dragstrip. People are saying that this is well past the rumor stage and is going to happen for sure. On a quiet night here in St. Louis, you can hear the death throes of Waitway.....er, I mean Gateway International. As much as I, and a lot of other people hate that race track, I hate to hear of ANY Drag Strip closing down.

[JK98SS]

Now there is talk of the Wallace brothers being interested in GIR.
I always said, Gateway is a wonderful facility, but poorly run. If the MAR crew ran GIR, it would be great.

Also mention of an 1/8 mile in Jonesburg.

[JK98SS]

http://marpark.proboards.com/

[Chevy454]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: From MAR forum</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ok so what I am reading here is that now that land that was PROPOSED to be the dragstrip is now a NO GO? And the (people) city of Eolia are looking for a different location for the dragstrip???

Read more: http://marpark.proboards.com/index.cgi?b...2#ixzz11zT6wRO2</div></div>
So the town of Eolia gave them the boot I guess...awesome. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[markjohnson]

I gotta ask Rob......what's so awesome about it?

[JK98SS]

+1 Mark. I think Rob meant it in a sarcastic way, due to the &quot;rolleyes&quot; smilie. Because it sucks this obstacle popped up.

I see a lot of flat land over here in my area. After all, I live in IL, making me a &quot;flat lander&quot;.

[396L35]

Ground breaking still set for the 21st of this month??? We will see because the town and Lincoln County were behind the deal...