I’m in. It’s only like 15 minutes from my office, anyway. I’ll bring a pushbroom and a dustpan. Do we need anything else? How about a kegerator? 5,000 traffic cones, maybe?

By the way, it always seemed to me that the fans in Nashville were very much into IndyCar.

1. The fact that the track is closed and there is nothing around it. I can’t say that INDYCAR has the money to promote a race on its own like it did Las Vegas-which didn’t draw 20,000 by the way.

2. There is no sponsor for the race, nor is there a guarantee of a sellout crowd.

Let me reiterate, I am not anti-oval. In fact, I am happy to know-as you may-that Phoenix may be back in play in 2013, as well as the possiblility that Watkins Glen and possibly Michigan might come back as well. These items are from various internet sources: espn.com, a local Watkins Glen paper and other indycar blogs.

In all seriousness, you hit the nail on the head that the Nashville Superspeedway was very badly managed. I remember hearing a couple years after opening that the management was pleasantly surprised how much interest there was in the in-field road course. But did they do anything to promote or nurture it? No. There wasn’t even a calendar on the NSS website where someone could see upcoming car club events and then click over to the car club for information. It would often be only a few days before or after an event that I would hear about a track day.

Truthfully the road course kinda sucked with a transition from and to the oval that was like driving over a curb but that road course was better than no road course at all. But yet management did little to nothing to promote it. SCCA would run on it sometimes so I guess that was good.

Once I bought a pass to the Formula Racing Experience on a sunday at NSS only to have it postponed at the last minute because FRE said the Speedway failed to tell them NSS had booked a motorcycle event there on the same day. I had to take a day off work 3 months later, though it was a lot of fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD31KeXy4zA)

All that to say it can’t be THAT hard to open a newly dormant oval for a weekend for a race that would most likely be successful at least from an attendance and schedule-fulfillment point of view. But then again if the idiots who ran the Superspeedway for the years that it was open would be involved then I can see why it wouldn’t work.

If my impressions of the Superspeedway are wrong I welcome someone from the NSS to counter but as both an INDYCAR fan and automotive enthusiast I watched, attended and participated in Nashville Superspeedway events for a number of years and it always seemed like it was a poorly run, red-headed stepchild of it’s parent company (no offense to red-headed stepchildren).