I’m glad to see they are actually running a real race during the fair. Demolition derbies and truck and tractor pulls don’t count.

I was born and raised in Warsaw so I spent most Saturday nights there as a kid until it closed in ’90. It was a damn shame that a few “powerful” (I use that term rather loosely) people were able to get the place shut down. There was a great fan base there at one time. I know several people that never missed a week that don’t go at all anymore. Gas City can be hard to get to on a Friday night and Kokomo can be hard on Sunday because of work. So some people just stopped going at all which is sad since they had such a good place to go.

I actually think you MIGHT (big maybe) be able to get the place going again in regard to the road block of people wanting it closed. I’m sure some of those people have moved on. I think the place is really missed up there by a lot of people. It would take a pretty good chunk of change to get the place back to what it once was. I’ve been by there and it’s pretty run down for obvious reasons. A lot of the shell is still there, but it would take a lot of work to get it back.

I’m really glad they have something racing there again. I’d love to be able to make it up there just to be at the old place again. Maybe this will get people thinking about it again. I hope all the drivers Melmo listed show. Tony, Bimbo, Denny England, and DeWayne Barker were the kings back in those days. DD and Jeff Walker were also good the last few years it was open.