Dirt track at a drag strip??

I used to run at Utica-Rome dragstrip back in the 80's. Next to the 1/8th mile strip, there was a small oval asphalt track that we used as the pits. The oval track did so-so, but the drag strip was always rocking.

It changed hands and the new owners decided to build a dirt track, because that's where the interest was... So... They also decided to make it bigger and in doing so, they covered the drag strip starting line with the new dirt track... and said "We'll build a new drag strip"... That was 35 years ago... It never happened.