1/4 mile strip in Minnesota!

I just picked this up from one of the other local forums... Probably old news, but this is the first I've heard about it

NEWS RELEASE

January 19, 2005

New race track planned for Pine County
Investment group introduces new club membership
concept to the Upper
Midwest

FOREST LAKE, Minn. – A motorsports facility with
multiple race tracks
is in the development stages in Pine County.

The project, named Pine Run Motorsports Park, will
offer a variety of
racing, featuring a
3.9-mile road course, a quarter-mile championship
dragstrip, a go-cart
track, a clubhouse with lounge, locker room and
observation deck, and
a Vehicle Dynamics Area. Pine Run will also offer a
number of
spectator events involving sanctioned professional
motorsports racing
as well as other events such as snowmobile grass
drags and snowcross
races.

For day-to-day use, Pine Run will feature club racing
where sports car
owners can buy an annual membership and then race
their car on
designated days. It's a concept that's growing
rapidly in other parts
of the country because owners of high-performance
sports cars want a
safe facility in which to drive their cars fast.

The proposed track configuration is four tracks in
one, with a
tri-oval track (three turns and three straightaways)
wrapped around
two short road courses that can be connected to make
one long road
course. A road course involves both right and left
turns, unlike an
oval track that features all left turns.

A Vehicle Dynamics Area is used for driving
instruction, and to test
vehicles in varying road conditions. It's basically a
large, open
paved area used to train drivers in skid recovery,
slalom, evasive and
defensive driving, braking, etc.

Pine Run is being developed by Forest Lake-based JD
Investments on a
500-acre parcel about 10 miles west of Pine City,
Minn., near the town
of Henriette. JD Investments is currently working
with Pokegama
Township and Pine County to acquire approval for the
project.

"We've very excited to start working with local
governments and
neighbors to move our project forward," said Jed
Copham, JD
Investments CEO. "As a recreation destination, we
believe Pine Run
will be a fantastic asset for Pine County as it
brings business to
this area, creates jobs and generates significant
taxes for the county."

Those who use Pine Run are expected to come from the
Twin Cities,
Duluth and central Minnesota, Copham said. But the
facility could host
drivers and car clubs from throughout the country.
And its spectator
events could bring competitive and professional
racers from around the
globe.

## #
Editors: For more information, call Communications
Director Geoff
Gorvin at 218-821-9513.


http://www.mnsportbikeriders.com/~c...zer/pinerun.pdf


http://www.pinerunracing.com

 

yeah, they have been talking about this for a long time now.

 

they moved it to a new site..

 

looking for a new site. I doubt we will see anything in this decade.
In the meantime I think we need to support Brainerd as much as possible so it doesn't go away.

http://www.pinerunracing.com/

 

Where did they move it to? The website says Henriette, is it now somewhere else?

 

they are basically starting over, no site.

 

sorry, old as the intarw3b! hahaha just had to...

 

yeah, support brainerd come up and visit me and the track :lol:

 

OLD!!!!

 

Yeah... old.
i actually drove up to pine city this summer to go to their meeting with the public and support the racers.
never have i wanted to stab so many retards in the face.

apparently, they had to move because the DNR said it was the habitat of some endangered skunk.
the skunk has probably been killed by now by some drunk idiot with a shotgun.

 

I had some property up there (Big Pine Lake), what's funny is you're probably right.

 

and, the new site will not have 1/4 mile...

 

No offence to drag guys, but YAY!
Seriously, that was their biggest problem was probable noise.
the calculations done basically said that the noise index of the drag strip would me massively higher than that of the road course.

 

Of course the drag would be louder than circuit racing. Then again, both are equally exciting. I got my hopes up for a moment that MN might have some place both legal and fun to play. I don't know what I was thinking..

 

They have one now:

http://forum.mnautox.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4068

 

i hope this thing goes thru, it would be nice to have something like this go up around my neck of the woods

 

but the chances of a drag strip are almost impossible.

they draw the NOPI crowd, which in turn draws a lot of idiots. A strip near the twinc cities would probably have about half as many burnouts occur leavng hte parking lot (meatheads cannot help themselves, I remember yelling at a corvett guy doing burnouts up and down the road outside midway at an autocross last year, he still kep doing it even though it was made abundantly clear to him it endangeded the event and just made peope question his wang/brain size)

and the biggest reason is nobody wants that kind of noise near anything. And as much as honda import tuners talk about drag racing, they are also cheapskates who know that an abandoned road and their buddies gets them all the racing excitement they need, without a big lighted sign telling a big crowd they just ran a 19.8 second 1/4. in communities that have tried the "racesafe" type approach (building dragstrips to get street racers off the streets) they often find that street racers aren't used to paying for what they perceive they can get for free, or aren't much interested in making their cars safe enough to run on a racetrack.

my $.02. Rock fall isn't that far from where we are compared to any other racetracks, I think it fills its niche fine. There isn't enough demand for it as it is to really merit the construction of another strip around here.

And aren't you guys driving subarus? There are several other kinds of racing that these cars were built to exceed at readily available in the area. IMO no subaru was ever built to drag race, some might do it ok, but realistically a well built $5k-$15k american v8 machine will destroy $32k STi's and there is little you can do about it. Theyre built for drag racing. You take the same cars and put them on an autox course/conventional racetrack/rally/ice race etc. and the subaru wins every time, so i'd say go to where you're not putting a square peg in a round hole.

 

i think the primary focus of this facilty, or the last arrangement was for a track, and then a strip would be added later. But i am pretty sure the guys going for this are big into atox, or thats what it seems like from their forums.

 

This would be right by my house! I'd finally have some form of entertainment.....aside from the HUGE 4 screen theater and the outlet mall, that is.

And agreed, last time I read about it, it seemed more track event oriented.