Originally Posted by Sprinter56:
If you ask me this was the fastest most bad ass place under a half mile around. Jim mills sunk a bunch of money in it and facility and track were awesome. Around 2003 he had red clay from a construction project my dad did in Bloomington, in trucked to sumner, il non stop for about a month. The red clay lived up to it's reputation as it had a ton of bite in it, high speed is an understatement. I believe they had trouble with city government that closed the doors eventually but i remember running 3 times there and May have been another race I missed. Damn shame it shut down id like to hear the real issues stopping it from going forward
I live about 8 miles from the track and it is a crime that it is sitting silent. We were told that the main reason it shut down was a dispute with the county/city over liquor sales, but there was probably more to it than that.