has anyone heard anything about GIR to reopen? ive heard a couple differnt things but not sure what to believe! one source told me they may open by late august/september, another told me next year and a differnt one told me they are still in the buying process.

anyone with some further insite?

 

This would be great! I know some St louis have came to Kansas Cities joke track! I am surprised they didn't go east or north.

 

yeah i agree!! i know a few guys who made the trip out to KC. its not a bad drive just a little too far to make a few runs lol. the next closest track i wanna say is 2 hours away and thats an 1/8th mile track

 

anyone have any answers or leads i could use?!

 

I wish they would reopen. I raced at benton il a couple of times but it is
just too far and like you say it's only 1/8 mile.

 

Has anyone been to Rogersville. I heard the boat course is done at Luca's and they have been working on the drag strip.

 

i never knew about rodgersville. where is that at exactly?

 

i go there once a month. great turnouts.

right outside springfield


Taken yesterday

 

Very sad

what track is next to it?

 

circle track

 

damn dude. thanks for the pictures. very sad to see a great track turn out to be such crappy shape just from sitting.

how did you manage to get on the track and take them?

 

i didnt personally take them. they were posted over on yellowbullet.

 

That is a SAD sight...I remember back in about 97-98 going to an allnight
clocks off show there on a Friday. From midnight til 6AM...total insanity
Seing pics of Memphis makes me cry; I went to the fastest street car shoot
outs from 93-96...even ran my 79 Bu in limited street in 96...good times

 

well thought i would share another good rumor i heard/read today. NHRA is releasing the 2012 schedule reportedly at the end of this week and sources say St. Louis is a stop in October! now is this true??? we will see in a few days

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-...ming-this-week

 

I just heard on the news this morning that Gateway has been leased for 1 year by a group of investers and they are trying to get it up and running again as early as this fall. we shall see......

 

I just read that same info off stltoday's website. This is excellent news! Now I need to come up with the funds for a new rearend lol

 

Here`s a link to some info.
http://www.dragzine.com/news/gateway...-oct-5-7-2012/
Another article.
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/motor...c8c18edc0.html

Glad to see it reopening. Great track. Been there many times. Will start going again.

 

Very glad to hear, that its going to reopen. Thats a shame, that they had to shut down. I always thought that was a pretty nice facility.

 

more good news

GIR will have to be open and have racing events held this year in order to be on the NHRA schedule for next season. (according to the editor of Mustang 5.0 magazine who was at mustang muscle last night ). there is already people working at the track to make this happen!

 

good deal! I hope to have a few runs in there, before the snow flies this year. More power to them!

The last time I drove by there, it looks like they have a lot of work to do.