Corvette Museum wants to build race track across the highway
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/


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.
Unless the ownership changed BB is run like crap. Double bookings and poor maintenance from what many others have said.
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.
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.
Will be interesting to follow.
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.
NCM has already bought the property, now its just a question of getting the money together.
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