Flatrock Motorsports Park

From the rumor mill, it will make COTA look cheap...

 

They had a booth set up at the track in Daytona a year or two ago. I think it was during the Rolex race but might have been the 500. They had great pictures and brochures and actually the people that were there with them were very knowledgeable about what was happening, there long term goals etc.

I visited with them for a few minutes and left feeling that they truly were interested in anything with wheels that would race.

 

Not a Fan of a Tilke Circuit, but this does look interesting.

 

I remember racing with WERA at VIR North(?) On a Thursday, then heading over to the South course for the rest of the weekend with AHRMA. The Cycle Jam I think it was (2010), continued on the North side at the same time.

 

There was a track day on the South course on the Thursday? I vaguely remember seeing bikes over there during the races that day.

 

another "resort"

North Carolina is about to build one of America’s first ‘high-end driving resorts’...Uwharrie Motorsports Park and Resort will revolve around a three-mile FIA-sanctioned driving course.

https://www.charlottestories.com/nc...t-of-charlotte-the-uwharrie-motorsports-park/

 

I had seen that...$100 million for what they want to do does not sound like enough money. I scoped out their web site and saw that they wanted to build condos before the track, which does not inspire a lot of confidence.

 

I get that, but it in my mind, it tells me that they need the sales of the condos to fund the amenities.

 

At first read it sounds more like a rich person’s playground than anything that would ever host a sanctioned race. I’m taking the “I’ll believe it when I see it and wheels are turned on the pavement” view.

 

Sounds like The Thermal Club.

 

Better than relying on crowd funding.

 

It's getting there.

 

Not exactly sure what this means for Flatrock but maybe Indy has bigger central US market appeal? Or a first right of refusal? before Flatrock is considered for a GP
https://www.gpone.com/it/2024/09/17...condo-gp-in-america-ma-non-sara-nel-2025.html

 

I’m surprised the Seminole, who own all the hard rock casinos, haven’t built a racetrack off of alligator alley in the Everglades… imagine all the gambling that supercar driving track day guys would do… $100M is nothing to them

damn that’s a good idea… tribes need to build racetracks