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

[piemaker720]

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.

I wish this could have been put here.

[piemaker720]

LA International Speedway Coming to Kentwood Area


http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6844264

Could Louisiana become home to a NASCAR race? That's what the developers behind the newly-announced Louisiana International Speedway are hoping, but the business sense of the man behind the wheel could be in question. The proposed $100 million racing complex could be set to open as early as spring of next year. WAFB's Avery Davidson reports on why it could be more than just a track.

Can't wait to see.

[joepole]

$100MM sounds kind of cheap for a NASCAR track.

[rhertz]

Yeah at say 2.5 miles, 100MM sounds cheap for a Louisiana project. (under $50M per mile) Bob Odom must have his hands out of this one.

[LSU]

42,000 people is kinda small, i think taladega is well over twice that size

[joepole]

I went to the Coca-Cola 600 one year and they announced the attendance at over 200,000.