Any news on Terre Haute ?
 

I was wondering if there had been any announcement on Terre Haute yet. I know there has been a lot of rumor and guessing, but is there anything definitive?

Just wondering.

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I think Terre Haute is one of those deals even Colonel Flag hasnt been told about, if they told us they would have to shoot us!!

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USAC schedule has the following dates.

Regular 410's.
May 26th (weekday)
July 13th (Sprint Week) (weekday)
Sept. 10th (Saturday)

Silver Crown
July 3rd (Sunday race, wow)

There is no MSCS race yet, as previously talked about.

From what was said, but not comfirmed. USAC is promoting it and Tommy from Tri State is doing track prep.

Now if these events happen, who knows.

Personal opinion, the track deserves a few more races. Tommy doing track prep should make the surface good. I just hope that what I been hearing as rumors isn't true. I have heard the fair board keeps raising rent on the circle and drag tracks to make the grounds lose money (they supposedly have done the same thing to the Schied guys with the diesel event) for a few years to get it to be sold for commercial development.

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The really sad part about the possible attitude of the fair board is this;With all the vacant property on 41, and the dead real estate market, are they crazy thinking they'd make money on the fairground sale ?

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No kidding. There is four empty stores just directly south of the fair grounds. In one section of the mall, instead of having empty stores shown, they just put up a decorative wall. With the 641 bypass going up, there will be less traffic passing there also. I believe there is a few empty store fronts in the strip mall south of the mall also. It reminds me of what happened in Houston. Six Flags Astroworld was a pretty busy theme park. in 2005, the CEO then demolished the property saying it was more valuable then the theme park. Took out the whole park, and leveled the land. It sat like that for sale years before someone finally bought it.

Then
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Today
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You would think whomever is running or promoting Terre Haute would make some kind of announcement...especially since the first race is only 6 weeks from tomorrow night....paging Spridge.

Tim Wolffrum aka Cowboy

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USAC is also promoting the races at Dodge City, Kan., and juist recently announced Tommie Estes Jr., as the promoter.
One might be surprised at how many of these big events are actually put on by the sanctioning body, rather than the racetrack itself. I know of one instance out here, a late model track, where the sanction, was trying to get the track to take over the race because it was losing money.

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Jim...glad to see your post...hope you are feeling better. Just would be nice to see some kind of official information about what is going on at Terre Haute

Tim Wolffrum aka Cowboy

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Super eletronics sale this week, dog show next weekend,,,***

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Whats the problem with that, if they are not racing they need to be doing something to make some $

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The fairboard hasn't ran them out yet? For the record though, it costs to get inside the electronics show. If you don't buy anything, there is an admission cost. If you buy something, I believe you get the admission price off your purchase.

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If they wanted to sell, then why not just list it for sale? Raising rent on promoters so they quit would serve no benefit. The time to sell would have been 5-15 years ago. That land is less desireable now. If I'm not mistaken, didn't Tony Hulman donate that land to the Fairgrounds and design the track? It would be a real slap in the face to him if the current people in charge are doing what they are rumored to be doing. My thanks to USAC for taking the extreme financial risk to keep my favorite track going. However I agree that to promote it well they should have a formal press release announcing as such, from a top official (no offense spridge). It would only take them a few minutes to put something on here. The fact is it is on the schedule so I will be there in May expecting a race but we don't even know who to call for tickets!

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They tried to sell it 2-5 years ago, but everyone raised a stink. There was two or three proposals form a developer. One was sell the whole plot of land and the person buying would give them land (that is a swamp) and money behind the fairgrounds for the whole place. Another was just the land south of the tracks selling and the fair board was to get the swamp land and less money. A petition went around and the fairboard didn't take the proposals. I agree, time to sell is past.

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charging admission to get in to buy other stuff,,,,that would be like walmart charging you to get in and shop
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I know that sounds crazy but aren't some of those bulk type stores the one's who make you pay a yearly membership fee? Like a Sam's Club or a Cosco store? Pay to shop.......:10:

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Ummm and you have better ideas for them to make some $ on their investment? No ones saying you have to go.

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Here in Terre Haute Lloyd, charging a few bucks admission might help filter out some of the deadbeats and keep them from getting in the way of the people that actually came there to look at stuff they might end up buying. It's a big problem at these kind of sales. Especially ones that have electronics.

Jerry

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Just how much does Craig Dori charge as admission to his Swap Meet?
Isn't that the same thing???

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$12 I think