Weekend Event Canceled, 2015 Season Up In the Air
The race scheduled for September 7th will be canceled due to several factors. Based on the limited car count available and the frustration amongst many of the racers we feel it is in the best interest of all parties involved to take one additional week to prepare their cars as well as allowing some much needed cooling off time. We always want to promote a safe and enjoyable environment for all to enjoy.
We will also look to have a great show scheduled for everyone on Saturday, September 13th at 2pm. It will be our final event of the season and the final event at Spud Speedway that will be under my management. Fall Brawl will include fan appreciation events, a full card of racing in all divisions along with the Atlantic Open Wheel Tour, Tuff Truck side by side racing, a Bomber race, and a Demo Derby to finish the day off. More details will come in the following days to outline the overall event.
The status of a 2015 season is unknown at this time. This has been a very difficult decision for me personally, but one that needed to be made for me and my family. In the summer of 2009 the Speedway was slated to close once again, I decided to purchase the track with one goal in mind, to keep the track open so everyone here in the County and New Brunswick had a place to race and enjoy the great sport it can be. Keeping racing alive in the area is still our first priority and we will continue to support the venue going forward. Over the past five years we have worked tirelessly to improve the facility and bring multiple types of entertainment to the area. We have brought concerts of all types, traveling tour races, monster truck shows, and most recently a full blown fair. Unfortunately we have not had enough local support to make any of these events successful from a dollars and cents point of view. We have personally invested 40-50 thousand dollars per year out of our pocket to keep the facility going, which is just not sustainable for any business. Going forward we will look to offer the track out for lease at a very affordable lease for someone else to try a new approach, if no individual shows any interest we will offer it to the racers to develop a Racer Club type of approach where the racers can work together to manage their own events at a very affordable cost. Beyond that we are open to any other suggestions that make sense. In any event we will continue to keep the Race Kart track open for people to enjoy in the upcoming season as we believe this is a big part of the future of racing as a whole. We may also consider the possibility of a few big events throughout the year just to keep the track open and functioning in some type of capacity.
I would like to thank everyone that has supported us during our time operating the speedway and hope everyone understands our situation. We want to thank our sponsors, racers, fans, staff, and all of the folks that put their own hard work and effort in keeping the track alive. None of what we have accomplished would have been possible without everyone’s support. We hope that someone will step forward to continue a 50 year tradition of racing at Spud Speedway and racers will get behind them to support their efforts. We will not look to sell the property and again as stated before, we will look to support the facility going forward to continue the tradition. I hope to see lots of people at our last event to show support for the racers and interest in racing as a whole.
Track owner, Troy Haney
