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Post by richard on Dec 14, 2019 0:13:27 GMT -5
Have there any NASCAR Cup races that have proposed (this can include tracks) or were planned to run but never did.
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AndersonWhitt
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Post by AndersonWhitt on Jan 19, 2021 4:40:23 GMT -5
The spring Talladega race in 1970 was originally going to be held at a planned track in New Jersey (it was going to be a clone of Michigan and Texas World), but the track was never built, partly because some of the locals didn't want a track near them and partly because of the owner having financial problems and eventually going bankrupt. Nascarman made a blog about it on Racing-Reference, and I'll try to find a link to it soon. (I've also made sure it was uploaded to the Wayback Machine in case the original ever gets deleted now that the blogs have been discontinued.) Edit: Here's the Wayback Machine version of the article (the track was going to be called Eastern International Speedway and would've been in Southampton Township, New Jersey): web.archive.org/web/20210118065707/https://www.racing-reference.info/showblog?id=3631 |
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Post by DI9_ForLife on Feb 2, 2021 9:05:53 GMT -5
For awhile, there were plans to build a track with a dome around it to try to prevent a rainout. The costs were insane and the project was shut down, plus building a dome around a track would result in carbon monoxide poisoning.
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