Racetrack Developers Jockey for Position with West Virginia Grant Committee

On their face, the proposals for Thunder Ridge in Flatwoods and West Virginia Motorsports Park in Quincy look similar. Both include 3/4-mile racetracks and want to draw smaller NASCAR-sanctioned races, such as the Craftsman Truck Series, to the area. They each request about $13 million in state fund...

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Published inKnight Ridder Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Finn, Scott
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 19.08.2003
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Summary:On their face, the proposals for Thunder Ridge in Flatwoods and West Virginia Motorsports Park in Quincy look similar. Both include 3/4-mile racetracks and want to draw smaller NASCAR-sanctioned races, such as the Craftsman Truck Series, to the area. They each request about $13 million in state funding. Bray Cary is an unpaid consultant for the Quincy project and former NASCAR executive who now is president of West Virginia Media Holdings. In an interview earlier this month, Cary said that if both tracks receive funding, he would recommend to Quincy developers that they not proceed. Both racetracks cannot survive, he said. Cary said it was misleading to say these would be "NASCAR tracks." Although the tracks may attract NASCAR-sanctioned events, they are more likely to be smaller, newer races, like the Craftsman Truck Series or Goody's Dash Series, not the Winston Cup races most associated with NASCAR in the public mind.