no more racing at englishtown....

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Mopar92 said:
NHRA events are way down on attendance. TV coverage maybe up on these free to watch reality shows. No hotdogs, hamburgers, cokes or anything else that supports a Track are sold during these shows. Millennials are not watching these shows. Existing car guys are. Street Outlaws do not help these tracks unless they are hosting an event there.
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That is not true. Have you ever been to a fairly big heads up race? Our local track had one and two street outlaws guy showed up. I know for a fact that the track got more attendance that night then any night in the previous two decades and the majority of them were under 40.
 
Mopar92 said:
NHRA events are way down on attendance. TV coverage maybe up on these free to watch reality shows. No hotdogs, hamburgers, cokes or anything else that supports a Track are sold during these shows. Millennials are not watching these shows. Existing car guys are. Street Outlaws do not help these tracks unless they are hosting an event there.
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1.8 million subscribers on YouTube. The majority of those aren’t above 40. The big three are all making cars over 500
Hp. Cars are coming from the factory with line lock, drag radials, and base v8 models are running in the 11s. Drag racing has not been this big since the 70s.

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I all but dropped my phone when I read this. Nothing to not like about englishtown...

JW
 
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doogievlg said:
That is not true. Have you ever been to a fairly big heads up race? Our local track had one and two street outlaws guy showed up. I know for a fact that the track got more attendance that night then any night in the previous two decades and the majority of them were under 40.
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Atleast for now if your favorite track gets the SO guys to show up expect a crowd beyond what most facilities can handle.... Which is a good thing.....

JW
 
I went to one of those "ancillary" events some time around 1980. The van club I was a member of went to a van-in over a weekend there. Loads of fun!

They also held drag racing that weekend so it was the best of both worlds.
 
The same thing happened to Old Dominion Raceway in Manassas, Virginia. Known as the oldest track on the East Coast. Condo's were up DAYS after closure. A neighborhood blog rejoiced and complained days on end about the noise. I guess if you buy property near a drag strip, eventually you will succeed in closing it down.
Buy property near a lake and you can eventually have boats and jet ski's banned as well.

Wear a leather jacket and drive a Harley. You're a Hell's Angel
Openly support police; you're a racist
Complain about muscle cars older than 2017 driving up and down the street; the towns will put the police out there to pull you over due to "complaints"
How many times does Congress push bills to outlaw drag racing or to surrender your old car due to emissions?
How about cash for clunkers?
Eventually, the millenials will succeed and drag racing, classic car enthusiasm will be a crime.
 
That's a bummer. Ran my AMX there in the early 70's and raced jet ski's in the pond in the 80's.
 
Howard1784 said:
The same thing happened to Old Dominion Raceway in Manassas, Virginia. Known as the oldest track on the East Coast. Condo's were up DAYS after closure. A neighborhood blog rejoiced and complained days on end about the noise. I guess if you buy property near a drag strip, eventually you will succeed in closing it down.
Buy property near a lake and you can eventually have boats and jet ski's banned as well.

Wear a leather jacket and drive a Harley. You're a Hell's Angel
Openly support police; you're a racist
Complain about muscle cars older than 2017 driving up and down the street; the towns will put the police out there to pull you over due to "complaints"
How many times does Congress push bills to outlaw drag racing or to surrender your old car due to emissions?
How about cash for clunkers?
Eventually, the millenials will succeed and drag racing, classic car enthusiasm will be a crime.
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Lol classic blame it on the millennial line. So many millenials are buying homes near drag strips and so many millennials are in Congress.

The cars rolling out of Detroit right now will chew up our classics and spit them out. I still prefer old cars but when you have the new demon pumping out 840 hp and pulling wheelies, the new gt500 with 700+ hp, and the ZL1 pushing out 600 you can’t honestly be worried about the performance car industry.
 
Several years ago there was a building permit/zoning notice of a mosque that wanted to build across the street and the noise and traffic issues were brought to bear to the track owners. The track been poorly maintained whether it was a local event or a national one. There's been plenty of non humans at the track stealing from the racers, not to mention armed robberies at the office. Path of least resistance, close the strip. My son is happy since he is one of the road racers at E-town. He likes the track, cost and proximity. NJ motor park is the only other local track and the cost to race there is quite high. Since NJ is now a sanctuary state, we might be able to race on the street with the new NJ undocumented driver licenses. Get 5 tickets for drag racing, just claim a new name and get another license. That's a lot of easy street racing with no strings attached.
 
Well this totally sucks!!!! 20 years of Mopar Nationals. I'm glad I'll have the memories. So much history at that track and now it's gone.
R.I.P. Englishtown!
 
competitionplus.com announcement today that the old Englishtown event dates are now filled by the Virginia Nationals to be held at Virginia Motorsports Park in Richmond, VA, June 8-10
 
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