Slide Job Racing

Steve Purcell was the gentleman's name that was putting that particular track together.
They did get those really nice grand stands from PIR when they (PIR) did all of the refurbishing to the back straight.
A few of the problems that they encountered while building it was that they did not bring in enough clay or pull all of the rocks out of the race surface. We took one of our micro's out there at Steve's request and pretty much beat the crap out of it on a practice session. There were so many rocks and what not out there that it would take a long time and a lot of money to get it in racing condition.
As far as the area there is plenty of room if someone decided that they wanted to cut in a 1/2 mile no problem.
When they were cutting the layout of the track, they decided that it was going to be a 3/8 mile..... why? I am not really sure. The track itself is a spitting image of Casa Grande. Same banking and the whole nine yards. Hell, we used our Casa Grande gear and it worked perfect. I figured that they should have done something different (1/4 with a half outside) to have been successful.
The pits were enormous and could accommodate any size rig and many of them to boot.
The biggest of the problems was dust control. They were told many many many times by the land owner that they could not stir up dust as the drags are directly east of the track. Being how the man that owns the land is a huge drag race guy.... it pretty much sealed the fate with the dust issue. They did run out of money as well. That may have been a small issue.
I think that it would be a bad idea to try and make that particular track the next Manzy because of the dust control problems. The pits but up against the drags and I just don't see the dust staying under control.
BTY..... they did have a handful of IMCA races there during the summer. Steve wanted to build that track for the simple reason of running IMCA Mods. This was all about the time that Barnett came and got their foot in with Canyon , Manzy and Tucson and he despised Barnett. If you need more info than that let me know.... I was privy to the goings on out there.
I almost forgot the Hollywood part.... Hollywood Leary is or was the current/former promoter for Manzy...... not one of the people involved in buying the track. Hollywood is actively looking for a new site for the new Manzanita Speedway. He owns a few different body shops throughout the valley and sponsors quite a few different race cars as well. His name popped up from the sponsorship deal with all of the cars and being associated with West Valley Speedway when it was up and running.