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Over the last 40 years here are the permanent facility sportscar tracks that I have been to which are now closed:
1. Bridgehampton
2. Ontario
3. Riverside
4. IRP
5. MAR
Here's what has opened:
1. Barber
2. NOLA
3. Homestead
4. VIR (it reopened)
5. NJMP
6. Monticello
7. New Hampshire
8. Miller
9. Atlanta Motorsports Park
10. PPIR (it closed for a bit but is open again)
11. Iowa Speedway
12. Kansas Speedway
13. Topeka
14. Fontana
15. Carolina Motorsports park
16. Pittsburgh International Race Complex
Just for me, there have been 3X the amount of tracks open as compared to the ones that have closed. Certain ones I honestly thought they would have been gone because they were POS facilities yet have turned their act around:
1. Nelson Ledges
2. Summit Point (how this place survived is a testament of someone knowing what to do because it was a dump in the 70's and the major celebration was they finally repaved it 8 months ago. It literally became the gold standard of the worst racetrack for at least 30 years).
3. Blackhawk Farms
4. Hallet
5. Grattan
6. Waterford Hills
In the end, if Road Atlanta can't survive, it's their own fault.
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