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Welcome to my racing info page. At the beginning I will focus on racing schedules, results and point standings from around the world. When I say around the world I mean if I can find the info on a series, it will appear here. As time goes on, and I have more time, I will add links to news stories on this front page.
For now just a little bit about me. I am not a professional. I am a fan. I watch every kind of racing series I can find on television, and some I can only find on the internet. I first started going to races at age 2, before I can remember much about going to them. The track was, the now closed, Flemington Speedway in New Jersey. As I grew older, I started going to more important races. I attended USAC/CART races from 1977-79 at the old Trenton International Speedway. I was also at the final two races held there in 1980, a USAC stock car race and later a NASCAR modified race won by Geoff Bodine after a hard-fought battle with the late Richie Evans. In 1981, I moved to Nashville just in time to attend the first All-American 400, a race I never missed in its original incarnation. I also attended four of the last six Winston Cup races held at the old fairgrounds racetrack there. I've also attended races at other local tracks in this state, including Highland Rim Speedway, Duck River Speedway, Clarksville Speedway and Tennessee Motor Speedway.
In addition to these local short-tracks, I have attended races at the Nashville Superspeedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Michigan Speedway, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis Racewway Park and the Indianoplis Motor Speedway. The two races I attended at IMS are my most treasured memories. They were the first two US Grand Prix events held there. I will never forget them.
I hope that you will enjoy visiting this site as much as I enjoy bringing it to you and please feel free to visit my other site nashvillescififan.com.
If you enjoy this website, please support my advertisers. It will allow me the time and ability to expand this site with more racing related info in the future.
Racing videos
As an avid racing fan I have complied a large collection of racing videos over the years. If anyone is interested in copies of any of those videos , please feel free to contact me here.
For now just a little bit about me. I am not a professional. I am a fan. I watch every kind of racing series I can find on television, and some I can only find on the internet. I first started going to races at age 2, before I can remember much about going to them. The track was, the now closed, Flemington Speedway in New Jersey. As I grew older, I started going to more important races. I attended USAC/CART races from 1977-79 at the old Trenton International Speedway. I was also at the final two races held there in 1980, a USAC stock car race and later a NASCAR modified race won by Geoff Bodine after a hard-fought battle with the late Richie Evans. In 1981, I moved to Nashville just in time to attend the first All-American 400, a race I never missed in its original incarnation. I also attended four of the last six Winston Cup races held at the old fairgrounds racetrack there. I've also attended races at other local tracks in this state, including Highland Rim Speedway, Duck River Speedway, Clarksville Speedway and Tennessee Motor Speedway.
In addition to these local short-tracks, I have attended races at the Nashville Superspeedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Michigan Speedway, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis Racewway Park and the Indianoplis Motor Speedway. The two races I attended at IMS are my most treasured memories. They were the first two US Grand Prix events held there. I will never forget them.
I hope that you will enjoy visiting this site as much as I enjoy bringing it to you and please feel free to visit my other site nashvillescififan.com.
If you enjoy this website, please support my advertisers. It will allow me the time and ability to expand this site with more racing related info in the future.
Racing videos
As an avid racing fan I have complied a large collection of racing videos over the years. If anyone is interested in copies of any of those videos , please feel free to contact me here.
Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville
For months now it has looked as if racing at the historic track here in Nashville had come to an end. Last fall the city's mayor, Karl Dean, had made a decision that the fairgrounds property should be closed and other uses should be sought for the property. There was to be no racing there in 2010. Not only racing, but the Tennessee State Fair and many other events held at the facility would have to find new homes after the facility was closed in June of 2010. In the last few weeks folks have been fighting back. There is a lawsuit over the fact that there was legislation, don't know the full details--but I am assuming that it was state legislation, that when the city was given control of the property it was with the stipulation that the property could only be used for purposes that would not interfere with the holding of a yearly fair at that location. Members of the city council have been fighting to limit what the property could be used for to those it had been used for previously. This effort has begun to bear fruit. Last week the State Fair Board issued leases to one group to hold the State fair in September of this year and a second group, led by track veteran Tony Formosa, to hold racing events during the year. Although there will not be regular weekly racing at the track this year, he will hold 5 special events between now and the end of the year. A full schedule has yet to be announced, but one race has been confirmed. The All-American 400 will return to the track the weekend of October 2nd, 3rd and 4th after having been postponed, then canceled last year. As someone who had attended all twenty of the race's events in its original incarnation and the 2007 and 2008 events in its new incarnation (would have been to last year's race as well) this is welcome news. As soon as the full slate of races are announced, they will be added to the local racing page. Hope to see some of you there this year.
The track's schedule has now been released. It's available at the top of the Local Racing page. Due to the massive flooding the city suffered in early May, the track has been forced to postpone the opening night, the first weekend of racing will be the June event.
For more see the track's official website fairgroundsspeedwaynashville.com
USGP Possibility?
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There has been an official announcement concerning the return of the USGP. On Tuesday the FIA announced that the USGP will return in 2012. The race will be held on a permanent facility built for the event outside of the city of Austin, TX. The city has secured the rights to host the race from 2012 through 2021. This will be the first time that the USGP will be held on track built specifically for Formula 1. Previous events have been held at existing facilities--Sebring, Riverside and Watkins Glen, temporary street circuits -- Long Beach, Detroit, Phoenix and Las Vegas and the infield road course that was added to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Accoording to SPEED's Formula 1 Debrief, the course will be designed by Herman Tilke. The promoter for the event however, has specified he wants a high-speed circuit with corners that will take commitment. He also wants the fans to be view multiple corners from their viewing locations. The project has been in the works for nearly 2.5 years so far. No date has been announced for when the race would appear on the calendar, though in June around the time of the Canadian Grand Prix seems most likely.
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Is there a possibility that we could see an F1 race back on US soil in the near future. There will be if the Monticello Motor Club has its way. According to information obtained by Autoweekracing.com there has been a letter sent out to club members that indicates the club and its private facility is trying to do just that. The letter states that the club chairman Bill McMichael and club president Ari Strauss had already met with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone several months ago about obtaining a ten year deal to host the USGP at the facility. The meeting resulted in a visit by track designer Herman Tilke, if its a new permanent road course in F1--it was designed by Tilke's company, who pronounced the track capable of holding an F1 with "some expansion and minor modification." The track layout can be changed and its longest version is 4.1 miles with 22 turns and was designed in part by driver Brian Redman. The track is just ninety minutes by car from New York City. For the complete article go here.
P.S.
There is another track that has a Tilke stamp on it being built right now. The track is Atlanta Motorsports Park in Georgia. It is designed by Tilke's company, Tilke Engineering & Architects and is currently under construction. The track is reprted to have SPEED's F1 announcer Bob Varsha involved with it.
New US Formula 1 team in the works?
On a similar note, there has been talk of a new group picking up the dream of a US based Formula 1 team. With the recent announcement that USF1 is liquidating its assets, it is obvious that group will not continue in an attempt. to field an F1 team. However, there is a group that I have been following on Facebook since shortly after the failure of the USF1 team to field a car for the season opener. I wouldn't say anything about the group because I wasn't sure if it was viable or not. Apparently it is. Although several members of the failed USF1 effort are a part of the group, none of the team principles of the earlier effort are. This group had intended to base itself in Charlotte, but had been keeping a low profile until it could secure a firm financial backing. The announcement this week of a scheduled USGP to be held in Austin, TX has resulted in the group changing its plans for the location of its base of operations to Texas. Recent news articles have indicated that this is a serious effort to field a new US based team and that they have secured a major global partner, but no word on who that partner is at the equst of the company. They are also working to secure a relationship with an established F1 manufacturer, no word on if this means chassis or engine. More on this story as it develops.
The team has opened a website: www.cyphergrp.com
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Update:
There has been an official announcement concerning the return of the USGP. On Tuesday the FIA announced that the USGP will return in 2012. The race will be held on a permanent facility built for the event outside of the city of Austin, TX. The city has secured the rights to host the race from 2012 through 2021. This will be the first time that the USGP will be held on track built specifically for Formula 1. Previous events have been held at existing facilities--Sebring, Riverside and Watkins Glen, temporary street circuits -- Long Beach, Detroit, Phoenix and Las Vegas and the infield road course that was added to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Accoording to SPEED's Formula 1 Debrief, the course will be designed by Herman Tilke. The promoter for the event however, has specified he wants a high-speed circuit with corners that will take commitment. He also wants the fans to be view multiple corners from their viewing locations. The project has been in the works for nearly 2.5 years so far. No date has been announced for when the race would appear on the calendar, though in June around the time of the Canadian Grand Prix seems most likely.
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Is there a possibility that we could see an F1 race back on US soil in the near future. There will be if the Monticello Motor Club has its way. According to information obtained by Autoweekracing.com there has been a letter sent out to club members that indicates the club and its private facility is trying to do just that. The letter states that the club chairman Bill McMichael and club president Ari Strauss had already met with F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone several months ago about obtaining a ten year deal to host the USGP at the facility. The meeting resulted in a visit by track designer Herman Tilke, if its a new permanent road course in F1--it was designed by Tilke's company, who pronounced the track capable of holding an F1 with "some expansion and minor modification." The track layout can be changed and its longest version is 4.1 miles with 22 turns and was designed in part by driver Brian Redman. The track is just ninety minutes by car from New York City. For the complete article go here.
P.S.
There is another track that has a Tilke stamp on it being built right now. The track is Atlanta Motorsports Park in Georgia. It is designed by Tilke's company, Tilke Engineering & Architects and is currently under construction. The track is reprted to have SPEED's F1 announcer Bob Varsha involved with it.
New US Formula 1 team in the works?
On a similar note, there has been talk of a new group picking up the dream of a US based Formula 1 team. With the recent announcement that USF1 is liquidating its assets, it is obvious that group will not continue in an attempt. to field an F1 team. However, there is a group that I have been following on Facebook since shortly after the failure of the USF1 team to field a car for the season opener. I wouldn't say anything about the group because I wasn't sure if it was viable or not. Apparently it is. Although several members of the failed USF1 effort are a part of the group, none of the team principles of the earlier effort are. This group had intended to base itself in Charlotte, but had been keeping a low profile until it could secure a firm financial backing. The announcement this week of a scheduled USGP to be held in Austin, TX has resulted in the group changing its plans for the location of its base of operations to Texas. Recent news articles have indicated that this is a serious effort to field a new US based team and that they have secured a major global partner, but no word on who that partner is at the equst of the company. They are also working to secure a relationship with an established F1 manufacturer, no word on if this means chassis or engine. More on this story as it develops.
The team has opened a website: www.cyphergrp.com
