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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 07:22 PM
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Corvette Museum wants to build race track across the highway

Very cool idea....




And not just a track, either. The National Corvette Museum wants to build an entire motorsports complex, including two road courses, a kart track, a ten-acre autocross course and a quarter-mile drag strip in Bowling Green, Kentucky. If that wasn't ambitious enough, the museum wants to do it on the opposite side of I-65 from the main museum and Corvette manufacturing plant. If the plan goes through, the two will be connected via a series of bridges and tunnels.

The main track borrows elements from some of our personal favorite courses, including the Carousel from the Nürburgring and the infamous Bus Stop from Watkins Glen. Even better, the museum says its courses will be FIA and SCCA compliant, meaning that when finished, we may actually see some impressive competitions take place on the new grounds.

The whole kit and caboodle is expected to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $35 million, excluding the price tag of all those bridges, etc, and the Corvette Museum has to come up with the majority of that figure before breaking ground. We're not sure exactly how the non-profit plans to come up with all of that coin, but we're betting Corvette owners can expect a polite request for donations sometime soon.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/27/c...s-the-highway/
Old Apr 27, 2010 | 07:23 PM
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That would be awesome.
Old Apr 27, 2010 | 09:51 PM
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So if you have a non-Corvette, do you think they'd let you go out on it?
Old Apr 27, 2010 | 09:53 PM
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I love the idea of the road course, especially the karting track, etc....but why compete with Beech Bend with the drag strip??

$35 LARGE is gonna be real damned hard to come up with these days....
Old Apr 28, 2010 | 12:27 AM
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I love the idea of the road course, especially the karting track, etc....but why compete with Beech Bend with the drag strip??

$35 LARGE is gonna be real damned hard to come up with these days....
Unless the ownership changed BB is run like crap. Double bookings and poor maintenance from what many others have said.
Old Apr 28, 2010 | 03:56 AM
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So if you have a non-Corvette, do you think they'd let you go out on it?
I'm willing to bet, this wont be any different from alot of other track facilities (VIR comes to mind), you have to be a track member, otherwise its third party access (SCCA, Track Daze, ect). with a slim possiblilty of charity events allowing none of the above access to the track.
Old Apr 28, 2010 | 06:05 AM
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Beech Bend is my number one favorite drag strip, and while I think it would be REALLY neat to have this proposed complex built, I certainly wouldn't want to see BB go away.

Will be interesting to follow.
Old May 1, 2010 | 08:44 PM
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Old news from 2008: https://www.camaroz28.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=608925

NCM has already bought the property, now its just a question of getting the money together.
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