![]() ![]() I have hopes of making the trek down someday) A lot of the guys in the club I belong to have run down there and rave about it. ![]() It doesn't appear they have a "home track", as the road racing events they have listed on their site are in other states - Kansas, Missouri, even Oklahoma (Hallett, which, by reputation, is supposed to be a wonderful facility. I was an avid race fan back in the day (my old man and I would go to the Fairgrounds, Knoxville or Boone a few times a month) but I never heard of this track until this post.Ĭlick to expand.Good to see DSM has an SCCA chapter alive and kicking. I can't imagine 40 degrees made out of wood. I went to Bristol and looked down the banking in the corners and it is only 30 degrees but it is steep enough to scare the crap out of you. ![]() Those guys must have had balls of steel to drive a car with that era of technology 90 mph on a 40 degree wooden banked track. As someone who did court ordered community service in Valley Junction in '93, I can assure that the flood plain was probably really big down there before the Army Corps of Engineers put in the levy system. Valley Junction is pretty old and I would guess that the area that you suggest at 14th and Railroad is where it was because that looks like one of the few undivided parcels big enough to build a mile oval that didn't get slashed by a street and it was probably cheap land due to proximity to the railroad and flood plain. ![]()
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