Originally Posted by Chief Wahoo:
Yes Ron, it's the same guy. Not sure how you can successfully run a track over 3 hours away and different time zone. From the closure, I guess you can't.
I should have known that. I just checked the Facebook page and I found I had posted on there. I went to several races there when it was Kamp Motor Speedway. I remember Kevin Studley having a wild crash in qualifying that slung parts into the grandstand area. Fortunately no one was injured. I remember the cows seemed to enjoy the races.
I have to recind a statement I may have made in the past, I may have said I never met a track I didn't like, Kamp was not good as dirt or pavement!
Bob
"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
I raced there when it was paved and raced there when it was dirt, never got excited about going to this place. Way out in the boonies, just farm land and not many people. No big deal that this track is closing.
Been to Kamp a few times. Saw some good races. Like others have mentioned, it’s just in a bad location.
I stopped to take a look at the place in 2001 after a USAC race in Joliet. The track was called Benton County Speedway at the time. It was a Saturday morning and the promoter was there. I thought the place looked neat. It was more of a circle. It seemed to me it had more banking then. Black dirt. I asked the promoter why he didn’t run more sprint car shows. He said that he ran an IRA show once and took a bath on it. He told me that the area's economy wasn't very good and had no population to speak of. This was over 20 years ago and I’m sure the things in the area haven’t improved much.
When the Kamp’s purchased the track, they shortened it a bit, put more of straightaway on the frontstretch. Brought in red clay. I grew up in the Northeast and the track really did remind me of Flemington NJ in how the cars attacked it. Saw the first MSCS show there in 2004. The track was tacky and fast that night. Almost too fast. I got there late and pulled into the parking lot just as Shane Hollingsworth was sailing out of the ballpark in turn four. I remember the feature itself was really exciting with Danny Williams Jr winning.
Sad to see yet another track go. Glad I got to see some races there.
