Gir Closed Forever

[Stoneroller]

For those of you who haven't heard, the gates have been closed, most likely forever on GIR in Madison, IL. Seems the tax breaks ended this year and the group in Dover can't milk GIR for anymore $$ so they have closed it. It is very unlikely that anyone will be able to outbid Waste Management when the track goes up for sale. WM wants to turn the track into another mountain of stinking garbage.

No more racetrack to go run my car around on the weekends. No more corner work fun. Sucks when greedy people get involved and are only interested in what can make them $$ today and are to short sighted to see the long term big picture.

With a boat load of luck, maybe the road track planned for the arnold, mo area will find some serious investors and get built. if only I could win the lottery...

[Gatorjet]

There has been a lot of talk on a Branson Forum about a NASCAR track being built south of Branson. If they closed Gateway because, as they claimed, a lack of ticket sales, how is a track with no Interstate highway access, and without being in a major metropolitan area going to make it?