sorry to be the bearer of bad news guys

Race City, Calgary, Alberta. We regret to inform that at 1:00pm Tuesday Sept 9th, 2008, all racing operations by Calgary International Speedway Inc., the operating company for Race City, are suspended until further notice. All scheduled racing events for the remainder of the 2008 season have been canceled.

We would like to thank all our Volunteers, Staff, Fans, Sanctioning Bodies, Sponsors and Racers who have supported us through the last three years of operation. CIS set out to save racing in Calgary after the announced closure of Race City in 2005. Unfortunately, the rainy weather and lack of major sponsorship support and low spectator counts to pay for the racing events that have been held at Race City over the last few years has left us with no choice but to cancel all racing and shut down operations.


www.racecity.com

 

i'll buy it.

 

Ouch, seems to be a problem in Canada with the tracks not making enough money. They just need a good accountant like me to whip them into shape.

 

god dam it

i give it 10-15 years and the sport wiil be dead, atleasst the ametuer level

 

calgary always had trouble because
1. the track often deals with DAs over 5000ft....
2. track prep might as well be nonexistant
3. the track overall is pretty chinsy
4. there are tracks not TOO far away with FAR better prep, and far better air quality.

 

that really blows

 

but, fear not, in 2 years approx a new track will open, not sure of specific details yet but I know it's forsure happening. It's being funded by one of the rich ass ppl who live in/around Calgary. State of the Art track as good or better than Edmonton, HOPEFULLY, camping areas if their smart.

 

nascarspeedpark ftw!

 

they will have to dig a hole 1500ft in the ground to be as good as edmonton

 

THEY BETTER lol

 

ok, ok. You win.

 

i really do hope they build a nice track though. i have a brother in law in calgary who just finished building his 94 mustang, hes gonna cry when he hears this.

 

I'll say. Castrol may be the ****, but I'm not gonna put 600 kms on my car every time I want to run a quarter.

 

If they are smart they will put in a state of the art track. Just maybe organizations like nascar NHRA will come. That will mean better facilities for us and great entertianment. Let's hope they're looking to the future.

 

if they setup the property so ppl can camp there over the weekends then we know their on the right track

 

Maybe they can just point the track downhill a bit to offset the altitude!

 

don't forget ppl, race city secret street WILL BE OPEN this friday and continuing into October(weather permitting). Not sure if that means auto-x too but I'm gunna go check it out either way.

 

Then take it back to the streets , yo! Just kidding, thats sad whenever a track closes.

Pretty soon the track will look like some of these.....(Awesome site btw)

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/dragstrips.asp

 

they are building another track forsure but it might take them 2 years

 

Thats actually pretty quick. I know a lot about building permits and stuff as I have built a couple houses, and flipped some lots over etc. The insurance and permits alone take months and months... Depending on the location there may need to be ecological studies done and all sorts of left wings activities. That last thing that gets done is the building... and the permit alone to build a commercial track is probably 500 000$ or so. A single home in an affluent neiborhood's build permit (Lets say 2500 sq feet) is usually 20 000 - 40 000.... and may take 8 weeks to approve . If you fail... well you get bent over

 

The track is at the very least being built outside of the city near a local highway from what I've been told/hearing. Beyond that because of the large amounts of street racers the city is going to have on it's hands they will no doubt push every button possible to have the track done sooner rather than later..........that increases tenfold because it's the city who wants the land where racecity is currently located so the city will be taking alot of flame for closing our only track and not having planned a new one to open sooner.