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30 Sep 2005, 17:24 (Ref:1421103)
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Pikes Peak Is History
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30 Sep 2005, 17:53 (Ref:1421117)
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Also says PPIR's Busch date moves to Martinsville......
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30 Sep 2005, 19:35 (Ref:1421191)
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Have ISC been looking at doing stuff like this for a long time?
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30 Sep 2005, 19:55 (Ref:1421206)
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They did the same thing to Nazareth last year...shipped the bleachers up to Watkins Glen....
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30 Sep 2005, 20:06 (Ref:1421216)
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I have read a theory at another forum in which land around Colorado Springs is in a commercial real-estate boom and the land on which PPIR lies may well be worth more as something other than a race track. The firm that owned it was Lehmann Brothers, a non-local investment banking firm, which I feel certain was not interested much in running a race track. Sorry if you considered that a "jibe." Others considered it far worse than that on the CC board. But yes, it could've been the same thing for the IRL had it cut a deal with PPIR.
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30 Sep 2005, 21:47 (Ref:1421273)
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It's crap to see tracks closing...
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30 Sep 2005, 22:45 (Ref:1421312)
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...In any case, a contract to hold a race this year would surely have been honoured - even if the race was scheduled after October 31, demolition could've been delayed for a few weeks.
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1 Oct 2005, 00:30 (Ref:1421360)
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sorry to be dim but does this refer to the hillclimb, or is there a circuit there as well, or indeed is it both? I thought the hillclimb was a national institution....
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1 Oct 2005, 01:32 (Ref:1421375)
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They are refering to the Oval.
The hill climb as far as I know will remain intact. |
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1 Oct 2005, 01:46 (Ref:1421378)
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Thank goodness for that - it's on my list of must-do-sometime- !
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1 Oct 2005, 03:28 (Ref:1421393)
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Thread has been tidied up a little.
ISC's purchase of PPIR's assets has nothing to do with Ansan, Korea. |
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1 Oct 2005, 12:18 (Ref:1421553)
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5 Oct 2005, 01:10 (Ref:1424090)
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Fortunatly the Pikes Peak Hill Climb is something that can't be purchased and screwed up by ISC.
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