Louisiana track in trouble

[andre]

Another racing facility not looking so good....



http://www.knoe.com/Global/story.asp...nav=menu1427_3

[oldyeller]

Most everyone there expects Monroe to be sold on the courthouse steps. They lost a third of their shows to rainouts this year, have an $80,000 a month note 12 months a year due -- could be a great buy for somebody if they get it cheap enough. It's a jewel, but it's also the only paved track for at least 200 miles -- people who build a car for that track would be facing a long, long tow if it folds.

It's like Gresham (Peach State) in Georgia, Erie, Mansfield -- these people can't understand that big crowds come to see great racing, not paved parking lots.

[Jane]

I posted the story on Monroe's website last week and sent it out in an email so the racers and fans would have some idea of what was happening to their beloved track. Like Rusty said, they didn't know whether they should rebuild their cars, turn them into dirt cars, what so I was hoping that that would help them have an idea of what was happening.

Monroe is a top knotch racing facility, especially being brand new, but as alot of us already know, making money right off the batt does not happen in racing. Plus they did have a great deal of rainouts and even had rain on their big concert day there. Things that they just did not think about.

By what I have heard, the investors are really going to try and save their track and if it is sold, hopefully it will be to someone who wants to keep it open. They had pretty good car counts and fans but making money just does not happen overnight.

Rusty put in alot of work there and I do pray that they are able to save it just like Bronson. No one wants to see any track close and sit empty like Pike's Peak raceway was. I saw that when I went to Colorado - top knotch, beautiful racetrack and it was just empty. That really is a shame.