For Lease: Sunshine Speedway

[Jimmy McKinley]

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For Lease speedway and drag strip, 4550 Ulmerton Rd, Clearwater, Florida. Current minimum permittable access is two (2) ingress/egress. FDOT reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Lease will be by sealed bid. Pre-bid meeting held on-site 12/8/11 @ 11:00 am. Bid opening @ 3:00 pm, 12/19/11 @ FDOT, 11201 N. McKinley Dr., Tampa. 33612-6456. For info call Lonnie Wittmeyer @ 813-975-6716. 1003645308 11/27/11, 12/4/11

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Thought y'all might be interested FYI: I found the link on FaceBook; someone's going to make a bid on it.

Get this place opened back up! Put mufflers on 'em if ya have to, but the Bay area needs a good asphalt track again!

[BVS40FL]

Well .......

I would come out of retirement if that all worked out but..... again , I ain't holding my breath.

[Joanne Lucas]

I would come out of retirement if that all worked out but..... again , I ain't holding my breath.

Are they bidding for the speedway to reopen or is it for anything to be built there??? Would be nice :-) You never know what you had until it is gone...

[Frasson118]

Is the track itself too far gone? I wouldn't think so, but haven't been by there in several years though. I'd love to see it come back, but the record of racetracks being resurrected is pretty low.

Also, signing a "lease"'and not a "sale" would make it very tricky for someone to make the capital improvements without having any ownership rights to the improvements. Many leases will allow improvements, but they must be left intact when leaving. Better be a looooong term lease.

[Jimmy McKinley]

Well...it says, "For lease: speedway and drag strip". The oval track is still in good shape from what I've seen from fairly recent satellite shots (Google Maps, Google Earth); would need grandstands, sound system, concession stands, etc., I would think.

[ancrdave]

Ken Sands is available...

[flvideo]

Durn Dave, you know how to break upm a party!

[MW68SS]

We would go back asphalt racing in a heart beat if that place opened back up.

[rknhvc09]

i'd even donate to the cause! please!!!! somone reopen sunshine!!!!

[MiniRacer26]

With the "road" not running on the property, I see the land being available for a very long time, ESPECIALLY with the state having empty coffers. I live about 5 mins from the track and the next time I ride by I will sneak in and take some pictures and post them. They were testing toll booths on the track and the track is actually in good condition. Everything else is gone and needs to be replaced. I mean EVERYTHING. With today's codes and requirements it would be a permitting/engineering nightmare and Pinellas County would nickle and dime the death out of the new leasee. It is possible and if somebody stepped up to the plate and made it happen it would be the "premier" short track in the state. All new infistructure and a track right in the middle of 500k people in an area loaded with racers who have to travel to Auburndale, Citrus or Desoto to get their racing fix can now race just a few miles down the road. Its a no brainer. We would be there in a heartbeat. It could be that the drag strip and speedway are listed as a "package deal" with the drag strip as being operational and the speedway is just apart of the deal. I wouldn't get your hopes up, but I am keeping my fingers crossed!

[dd38]

I towed to Sunshine from Orlando (110 miles 1 way) in the mid 90's and I'd do it again.

[fascar27]

Mckinley, Miniracer

I`ll say you both were right, Sunshine Speedway is still on the Google Map, what I see is row of toll booths at the start/finish line, and baracade around the infield, and also, it`s needed everything to get the track up and running again. There`s no stand, tower, refreshment stand, and sound systems. When sunshine Speedway closed up, in 2004. Everything went CCMP after Hurricane Charley, cause, CCMP was named then, PGS is named now, when Hurricane went through the track and took everything, tore up everythings. Anyway, Only thing I see Sunshine Speedway needed is, pave the ramp that entrance to the track to turn 2. All grass there now.

[openwm53]

Myself and my race team

would put our blood ,sweat and tears into the re opening of this track. I personally would contact every buisness in pinellas county to help sponsor anything and everything needed. Hey Tony C. What ya think ? Ten minutes from the house.

[ancrdave]

Would love to see this track resurrected as it was my all-time favorite place to announce at... those were some fun years, right dd38?
But can you imagine the cost of bringing the land and the facility up to current Federal, State, County and City codes? It would be astronomical and then you have to re-do the track itself, the pits, new buildings, new grandstands, wiring, septic, plumbing and the list goes on... Will really have to have DEEP pockets..

[flvideo]

Frm what I read

The state wants the land to be used as a track so maybe they would be willing to help the right person. I do't suppose the land could be used for much else.