Tangipahoa speedway to open in 2008 for races, concerts, fairs

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http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6846085

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A new, $100 million speedway in Tangipahoa Parish will be built to standards for NASCAR and Indy racing, and officials say the complex could be used for concerts, boat racing, fairs and as a hurricane evacuation center.
The track will be south of Kentwood, just off Interstate 55, on 1,500 acres bought by the investors. Plans call for a one-mile oval, asphalt track and a half-mile drag racing track, with 30 luxury suites and seating for 42,000.

Weber says a narrow quarter-mile stretch of water will make the track 1 of 3 in the country with nighttime speed boat drag racing.

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