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Lots of Off-Season Projects at LoneStar Speedway; OPEN PRACTICE DATES FEB. 8 & 15

Kilgore, TX (1/27/15) by DarinShort.com. Several off-season projects have either been completed, or are well underway at LoneStar Speedway in anticipation of the 2015 racing season:

-The entire backstretch has been raised one food with new clay, which allows for a consistent banking from bottom to top.

-200 yards of new clay has been added to turns 3 and 4.

-Two handicap bathroom stalls (men and women) have been built. They are located by main concession stands along with new concrete handicap ramps.

-At the entrance to ticket gate, enlarged concrete walking area with new hand railing.

-New grandstand sound system going in. (after the last one chose to 'retire itself' at the end of the last race of 2014, LOL)

-Increased underground track drainage, which allows for even quicker drainage from rainstorms. LoneStar has been able to get in a lot of races due to the underground drainage system.

-Track entrance in corner 4 wall extended (to help keep excess rainfall from flooding track surface and to discourage drivers from making a track exit there).

Make plans now to join us for OPEN PRACTICE & Registration for ALL RACING DIVISION - SUNDAY FEB. 8 & 15; from Noon-4pm. All pit passes are $15, while the grandstands are free to anyone that would like to check out the new track changes and the new cars drivers have been working on during the off-season.

Click http://www.LoneStarSpeedway.com for the 2015 schedule and visit http://www.darinshort.com/022115 for the first event of the season, the February 21st LoneStar Sprint Car Smackdown!

It would be cool to see them bring back the big ascs show that they used to run.

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Those events were a blast and full of non-stop drama and excitement. You never knew who was going to win, or from what starting spot they'd come from. High-banks, high speed, no mufflers...

For a sprint car-only format and to have 117 sprints one year and 131 the other (between the 2 sprint divisions), it was quite an awesome 3 nights of racing...and all at a fan-friendly $40 3-day grandstand pass.

Maybe some year we'll revive the event. It was quite the undertaking, with about 200 hundred hours of pre-event work...and then you have the weather to contend with.

Each year we had weather affect the event on one end or the other - yet we managed to get in every single scheduled race, as advertised.

The final year, all the local TV stations scared off the local crowd with their '70% chance of severe t-storms'...yet they didn't hit the track until they were scheduled to, 1 hour after the final checkers. But that's part of an outdoor event.

If you'd like to see a picture slideshow (nearly 100 shots) from the LoneStar Sprint Nationals, it's loaded on the homepage of the event website, which is still up at: 

...and another clip from Don Cook: http://youtu.be/GXdWxW5XKeA

Note that the ASCS Gulf Region will be at LoneStar in 2015 on Sat. June 27, while the ASCS Red River region will be racing on Saturday Oct. 10. Of course the season is kicking off with the LoneStar Sprint Smackdown on Sat. Feb. 21 featuring the RaceSaver sprint cars.

Click www.LoneStarSpeedway.com for complete event schedules.