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Doug, since you're establishing your profession here, I'm sure there are some lonely widows in Irving Park who would offer you....say...$50.

Savage, I have absolutely no idea where you got this nonsequitur. And please don't bother to explain.

NASCAR was conceived in Greensboro, and there was a track on paper out near the airport - but it just didn't happen.

May be now is the TIME. But who can extend the invitation on behalf of the Triad without messing it up. You need just a little business and a little redneck to not run him off.

Doug, I think it might have to do with enduring anything as long as the price is right, but perhaps I should say what Louis Armstrong said when asked "what's Jazz" and he replied: "Son, if you have to ask, I can't tell you" .

I don't get it either, Doug.

As far as Lowes Motor Speedway goes, I can't understand people buying houses near the racetrack and then complaining about noise. What did they expect? I'm sure those same folks haven't complained about the millions of dollars in tax revenue the racetrack brings to Concord every year.

It reminds me of the anti-Fed Ex crowd from a few years back. Folks, you knew you were buying land near an airport - don't be surprised if there are a few airplanes!

He sounds like kind of a jerk, but who cares if he's willing to invest a few hundred million dollars?* Doug

He is no jerk! Just a simple businessman trying to make a buck at the expense of the Taxpayers. Clearly, he can purchase downtown Concord and fire the City Council. If that does not work, he can hired out the Blackwater group and declare the city of Concord as a Red Neck Zone in racing.

The speedway is a major taxpayer and huge contributor to the private economy. The drag strip would push closer to some residential areas, but every community has to set its own priorities. I'm sure, if given the opportunity, the Triad could find a great location for a speedway. Who makes the pitch is a great question. Piedmont Triad Partnership?

Please, please, please take NASCAR away from Charlotte. Race weekends are the worst.

Of course losing Lowe's Motor Speedway would likely hurt attendance at the new Hall of Fame...

Send the Panthers up here while you're at it, Kenny.

I'm sure, if given the opportunity, the Triad could find a great location for a speedway. * Doug

How about downtown Greensboro? Or the North Taxi runway at the airport? Or the speedway trap on south 85 where the city cops of Archdale hang out all day?

Yeah, while we're making a pitch for a speedway, let's build a few prisons and develop a Welfare Queen Retirement Community while we're at it. We could host conventions for accordionists and people who brew their own beer. Add a UFO museum downtown. Great thinking. It would help the economy.

I used to go to NASCAR races in Atlanta and I can assure you that everyone who attends is a redneck.

Last year, ConvergeSouth couldn't get a hotel room downtown because there was a NASCAR event in Concord (they ran buses from GSO to Concord). If they can fill GSO hotels based on car sports that far away, sheesh, what can we do to help get that track nearby?

Don't care who likes car racing or who doesn't. It's sports; it's good for economics. Bottom line; build the tax base.

I used to go to NASCAR races in Atlanta and I can assure you that everyone who attends is a redneck.* Brian

Really! Explain the massive Corporate Viewing Club House Booths at the Henry County polo and drag track. [ that was the name before Bill France and Pure Oil aquire the site in the early 60's] Are you saying that the Corporate Auto World is nothing but big belly drinking corporate rednecks?

Sue

Last year, ConvergeSouth couldn't get a hotel room downtown because there was a NASCAR event in Concord (they ran buses from GSO to Concord). If they can fill GSO hotels based on car sports that far away, sheesh, what can we do to help get that track nearby?* Sue

When your little blogging world gets 125 thousand bloggers to you and Ed coverage events, than you will understand why Gladiator sports will always out draw any political communication discussion why the world does not understand the 21 st of politics.

Don't care who likes car racing or who doesn't. It's sports; it's good for economics. Bottom line; build the tax base.*Sue

No Sue! The tax base is never pay by professional sports with it's massive arena's and stadiums build in the last 10 years. Out of the 90 professional sports team in football, baseball, basketball in this country that has build massive stadiums in the last 15 years, none have ever pay the bond debt yet on these Taxpayer supported Roman Gladiator Coliseums, except one....The Carolina Panthers

brian, you should have gone to North Wilkesboro when NASCAR was still racin' up there. Benny Phillips, sports editor of the High Point Enterprise, called it the "Dog Patch of the circuit."

The new outer loop could make a heckuva race track.

Doug, how about putting the race track at Simeon. Of course, GCS would still own it (even though the bathrooms would be bad and steps crumbling etc.) and use the rental revenue to help educate the kids! Everybody wins!!!

Savage - now THAT was funny...

I used to go to a dirt track in Orange County and I'll bet it had North Wilkesboro covered on the dog patch quotient.

But no more tax base expansion. I'm for driving people out of Greensboro, not attracting more.

So put the track next to the Haw River State Park instead of that golf course community.

Tree huggers would have a good time with that, Doug. They'd be busing in from the West Coast for that one.

Bruton Smith has a history with trees.

"The new outer loop could make a heckuva race track."

But not nearlly as interesting as the Old Nurburgring.

THAT's what we really need.....and a 24 hour endurance event to put the LeMans and Daytona versions to shame

Bubba, you're right. If we can't get a big track, we should lay out a road course and bring F1 racing to the Triad.

Funny all this talk about a NASCAR track in Greensboro considering the site where the Greensboro Coliseum sits today was at one time a race track where the then, biggest names is racing came to bang fenders.

My Daddy cursed the tearing down of that red dirt oval until the day he died.

As for Bruton Smith: He'll not be moving anywhere. Sports venues of that nature have to be near major cities. There have been numerous attempts at building major race tracks in the boonies and most have failed. Think Ontario, California: Bustling city today but when the race track was there it was no more than an exit ramp and a truck stop on I-5. 2000 acre sites near major cities are very hard to find.

Not F1!

The only thing worse than rednecks is Eurotrash, and God know we don't need that. Besides, the last lead change in F1 occured in 1996. I was watching: Michael Schumaker passed somebody. Before that, it was Juan Fangio passing Sterling Moss in 1954.

The Eurotrash is welcome. With all their buck-forty euros, they could buy up this whole town.

If Talladega isn't the boonies, I don't know what is.

There's always Dakar:

http://www.dakar.com/indexus.html