I have hopes of making the trek down someday) A lot of the guys in the club I belong to have run down there and rave about it. ![]() ![]() It doesn't appear they have a "home track", as the road racing events they have listed on their site are in other states - Kansas, Missouri, even Oklahoma (Hallett, which, by reputation, is supposed to be a wonderful facility. I was an avid race fan back in the day (my old man and I would go to the Fairgrounds, Knoxville or Boone a few times a month) but I never heard of this track until this post.Ĭlick to expand.Good to see DSM has an SCCA chapter alive and kicking. I can't imagine 40 degrees made out of wood. I went to Bristol and looked down the banking in the corners and it is only 30 degrees but it is steep enough to scare the crap out of you. Those guys must have had balls of steel to drive a car with that era of technology 90 mph on a 40 degree wooden banked track. As someone who did court ordered community service in Valley Junction in '93, I can assure that the flood plain was probably really big down there before the Army Corps of Engineers put in the levy system. ![]() Valley Junction is pretty old and I would guess that the area that you suggest at 14th and Railroad is where it was because that looks like one of the few undivided parcels big enough to build a mile oval that didn't get slashed by a street and it was probably cheap land due to proximity to the railroad and flood plain.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |