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I seen on a different website that a new race track is being built by Ogilvie MN. Just wondering if anyone here knows much about the future of that track? Seen pics of the constuction that is already going on and it looks pretty nice. Not that far from twin cities so maybe the new UMSS series could do some sprint shows there?

could you post the site you saw the pics at? i've heard good things about the track. thanks.

www.jdphotosports.photoreflect.com

Ron has been talking to the owner's of that track, I don't remember what he told me about it, but maybe we can go there.

Are they racing sprint cars there?

looked at the pictures and they're moving lots of dirt and building stuff. ogilvie has rivers and streams running through it. huset's north?

Here we go again with that "I can't remember stuff" Old age deal Chuck?? LOL

Kenny, what can I say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope your holidays were good.

Yeah, they were good,,, the same to you,,, car is almost ready to go...

Car??? Are you talking about a sidecar for your Harley or something?

it's a happy new year when a new dirt track is built a hour from my house in the cities. this thing could have a heck of a racing surface.

Cats outta the bag, Now you know why Rizzo had been working a 3rd job.

any new "news" about ogilvie? rum river speedway-kinda like that.

The track is under construction and will be high banked similar to Cedar Lake but they tell me it's going to be a little bigger. Jay Rittenauer (sp?) who used to promote at Princeton is involved from what I understand and they're working on the buildings, etc. I plan on taking a drive up that way when the weather starts to get better.

I can think of several promoters who would run Sprints weekly in a heartbeat if they knew they were going to draw enough cars. It's kind of a catch 22 around here with the Sprints, car owners can't race without a weekly track and promoters have to rely heavily on the back gate so they have to know the cars are going to show up. I see that Arlington has upped their purse (I believe based on car count) so I think we're starting to see more enthusiasm for Sprint Car racing.

The Late Models and Modifieds are entertaining racing but I never could understand why Sprints lost their popularity up here. Young people are into extreme sports and Sprint Cars are about as extreme as you can get on a dirt track but the younger dirt fans seem more interested in the Stock Car classes. I think that's because there's a couple generations of young people where that's all they've known. The UMSS hopefully will be able to fill that niche around western Wisconsin and the northeast Metro.

Stan Meissner