Don't they normally run like a Ferrari Challenge when they do the Houston GP...just saying those guys are pretty much club racers with HHHUUUGGGEEE bank accounts. We should be able to sell someone on this.Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
We only need one!!!
Daniel Records
CMC # 34
It'd be the "hey, do you guys remember that one time. . .". So if there is no TWS, ECR is the closest but is it worth splurging an extra couple hundred miles for MSRH?Don't they normally run like a Ferrari Challenge when they do the Houston GP...just saying those guys are pretty much club racers with HHHUUUGGGEEE bank accounts. We should be able to sell someone on this.
We only need one!!!
RM CMC Director
Personally, I think it is a fun track to "drive". As a "race" track, I think it sucks. Just too few passing opportunities IMO.
-Michael Mosty
CMC #11 Mosty Brothers' Racing
Director - TX Region
I agree with that. My spousal unit loved NOLA due to the variety of air conditioned buildings and the fact she could get chargrilled oysters for dinner.
Daniel Records
CMC # 34
In my humble opinion.....and closest to the scuttlebutt of College Station, the finances to do anything even remotely related to converting the TWS track property into a housing development are non-existent. Don't let the missing VIP stands scare you guys when you arrive in a couple weeks. They probably just need money for toilet paper! lol!
So many rumors flying around but I honestly don't see the track going anywhere unless a giant hole opens up and swallows it. It's the ONLY revenue stream they have and honestly, it isn't that much. So far, I've been right.
Ah, fugg it.
Yeah and I heard the current garage tenants haven't even been asked to move yet?
I hope you are right Matt. If it does not close the owner is going to look like an even bigger Tool than he already does. With the oil bidness being what it is today and a ton of investment money coming from guys swimming in cash when oil is $100.00 a barrel I don't see it but my contacts say it's closing. What about the story about the lot that turn six is on being sold already? If that was true how are we still able to use turn 6?
JJ
Last edited by ShadowBolt; 09-30-2016 at 08:41 PM.
turn 6 sale was just posturing to set prices per acre.
The only other platting or site documentation work that has been done I can find is all the commercial work out front which doesn't even line up with the original site plan released a long time ago. Only money flowing in is the track rentals, minus costs. If there was real money involved AND a plan, there would be equipment out there on the frontage moving dirt 18 months ago. Froy hasn't even mowed that shit.
Ah, fugg it.
Back in 1976, 1977 Austin hosted the "river city road races" on 1st street going through downtown. My dad still has the framed poster of the event when he competed in it. Looked pretty cool!
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
― Paul Newman
From the people who rent the track: TWS has significantly raised the price to rent the track and only very recently put out feelers to rent dates for next year. At this point, any decent group would have already locked down next years schedule. Also, there is some expensive maintenance that would need to be done to keep events viable. Expenses that you wouldn't execute on if you weren't sure things were going to continue.
Between the price, the schedule, and conditions, groups are saying no or signing up for minimal events. Who would have guessed that the Third Annual Last Ever TWS Event wouldn't have that much hype? Speculation is that they will have a lot of open weekends and make less money than they would have if they weren't playing these games. Seems to me that the place is going to collapse under gross mismanagement and sit there for years before the whole thing is abandoned at a loss...
Richard P.
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