NASCAR leaves town, shakes fist
Jake from 8Bit Joystick must be doing a happy dance today–after all of his agitating, the folks behind the NASCAR track proposed for Bremerton have pulled the plug and run off [Times].
I went to college up the road a bit from the Daytona 500, and we always hated the crowd that it brought, so I’m not sorry at all that such a thing won’t be happening here any time soon, regardless of whatever money it might have brought in.
Not one of the legislators from Kitsap supported the proposal, which fell through in Snohomish in 2004. But the International Speedway Corporation swears they’ll be back as soon as they find a new spot to put their race track, just like cartoon villains. Of course, if they do try to come back, Jake will be here to stop them.
Yeeeeeha! Shake and Bake baby!
We couldn’t have this victory without the help of the ISC and their horrible 57 page legislative corporate welfare monstrosity.
You know I heard that they actually televised NASCAR races and that they had a track in Colorado.
I don’t have anything against NASCAR fans I can’t stand corporate welfare and to have my local government subjugated by carpetbaggers from Snohomish County and Covington.
I’ll be dammed if we fought hard to win a massive legislative victory and the largest majority in Olympia since the 1960s in November 2006 only to have this thing shoved down out gullets by legislators on the other side of the sound.
By the way I actually do think Lewis County is a good place for a NASCAR track if the ISC actually financed and built it themselves. But that’s only if the residents there actually want it and the ISC keeps their hands out of our state government pockets.
My testimony to the Senate on 2/20 is online as a MP3 file and it start at 01:00:28 into the file.
Congrats to Jake.
Lewis County does make sense. It’s rural, conservative, well-placed between Portland and Seattle, and could use an injection of economic development. It also has a lot of anti-government and anti-tax sentiment, so the only way it would support a track is if NASCAR builds it.
way to go, jake!!
and a HUGE thank you! i didn’t move all the way from tennessee to have nascar follow me out here!
Kitsap on the other hand is an isolated peninsular with really bad traffic and transportation problems. There is not one major sporting stadium anywhere in the world located on a similar peninsula of the same size.
While I’m looking forward to NASCAR coming to the Northwest (I mean, come on, it’s a fun soap opera at 190mph), I’m happy Jake and others talked the Legislature out of giving the France family a blank check.
Lewis County would be perfect — rural, roughly equidistant between Portland and Seattle, and lots of room for a superspeedway and RV parking for 100,000. Though, personally, I wish they’d build a short track or a road course.