NASCAR pioneer Gary Baker once called Nashville “Daytona Beach without.”
With a rich base of country music, Nashville, and NASCAR go together like biscuits and gravy. But in recent years has devastated goes crackers-music country’s not country anymore-and racing has a curdled sauce and dried.
Nashville Superspeedway, the sparkling is located 35 km from the city on the outskirts of the city, has ceased operations. After the opening of a decade ago amid high hopes, furor and the line failed to withdraw, and last August the Dover Motorsports owner pulled the plug.
The track is racing’s field of dreams – except that after they built it they didn’t come.
At the same time, venerable old Fairgrounds Speedway located in hawker, wheezing on life support. It vibrates through 54th season this summer, and is scheduled to run several local races in 2012. After that, the future is in limbo.