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No More Elvis Trophy

As if the current monsoon season in the Mid South isn’t enough, I learned to day that Dover Motorsports is closing the Memphis Motorsports Park. The oval track 2010 dates have already been rescheduled elsewhere, but I can’t find out for certain if the drag strip is also closing. Maybe that piece of info will get updated somewhere soon.

What a bummer. Season tickets for the truck and Nationwide races have been birthday presents to myself for almost 6 years. The very first non-dirt track race I ever saw was at Memphis Motorsports when Junior was in the Busch series.

The races were a tailgating experience for me, my mother, my daughter, and my best friend – time to sit, chill (or keep warm if the weather was cold in October!), enjoy a beverage, grill out – and watch a race.

After witnessing the worst attendance I’ve seen at a Busch/Nationwide event since I’ve been frequenting the park, I kinda figured that something big needed to happen or it would close… Unfortunately, it was the latter. Let’s face it – Memphis does not promote anything. ANYTHING. I wouldn’t even know who to point the finger at – the city council? the exiting mayor? Memphis/Millington had a gold mine and they just left it to starve like the dogs in the Memphis Animal Shelter.