If you have been itching to buy a turn key drag strip, your chance to get the job done is coming in a month. Exactly a month to be precise as November 10th is the date that Roxboro Motorsports Park in North Carolina will be put up for sale. Not just the track itself but all the equipment and everything needed from the gate key to the traction compound. Roxboro is by no means a super track but it is a place that has been hosting drag races in one form or another since 1959 when it was first opened as a dirt strip. Things have only gotten more interesting from there as the place has evolved over the years.
The auction will be a sealed bid situation and the current owner of the track has said that he could help finance the whole deal if the right bidder needs the help. The track sits on 42 acres, it has an all concrete 1/8th mile strip which was refinished in 2014, a mug bog pit, recently freshened bathrooms, and in all honesty the place is pretty great.
This is the kind of track that puts food on the table of the family that owns it. Sends their kids to college. No, no one will become rich operating Roxboro Motorsports Park but if done right, they will carry on a legacy that has been a part of the North Carolina drag racing scene since the late 1950s. The track currently runs a full schedule and best we can tell the current owners are just ready to retire and don’t have anything untoward going on that forces their departure.
Some of you may note that there are more than a couple strips for sale these days. Know when people sell stuff? When it is worth the most. Something to think about there.
Link: Here’s the auction listing for Foxboro Motorsports Park in North Carolina
I live in NC and never heard of Roxboro! Definitely a lot more tracks in here than NJ ever had!
I raced at all four of the tracks in New Jersey that were in operation when I lived there. I’ve raced at six in North Carolina since I moved here and that’s only 1/3!
Mike I\’m from NJ, raced at Atco, Island and E-town. What was the 4th?
That track doesn\’t run at all right now. They have not had a race there this year and they only had a few there last year.
If the owner is willing to carry back a second mortgage, and, there are NO LIENS on the property, then I can help with a first mortgage loan. Go here to apply.
http://www.mortgageexitsolutions.com/commercial-lending.html
Wat is the startn bid?
Wat is the starting bid and were do u send ur bid and howlong is the auction going to start?
Follow the link above to see the auction details. (http://www.woltz.com/auctions/921). Its a closed auction by sealed bid.
Roxboro seems like a nice investment if you can get a good price for it. The track looks like it will need some refurbishing and upgrades, but a savvy promoter could make it work. The location isn’t bad. Its on a state highway halfway between two small cities, one of which is on an Interstate exit. Its also the closest track to the Raleigh-Durham market, which puts close to 1.5 million people within an hour’s drive or less.
The track needs no “refurbishing and upgrades”. It’s a fine facility. Michael Schwartz, your tally of six tracks is slightly less than a FIFTH of the active tracks in the state.
Pave the pits put in a refreshment stand a new tech building light’s for night racing state of the art tower make it an NHRA track bring in major events make it every ticket is a pit pass, If someone did all the upgrades and put in a campground and keep it clean with the right advertising and promotion of events on radio TV and sign’s from the highway as where its at not only races do swap meets and other activities it could make good money make it fan friendly and racer friendly, After all the upgrades promoting and marketing is KEY.
Drag racing is die’n.. Like most motorsports.. Owners are selling before the bottom falls out..
promote it as 1/8 mile rental. with out huge improvements your not getting national. work with small tv shows cause it could be for great TV and you off the street. you can tow larger concession stands to there avoid the taxes