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Winston-Salem State University's effort to buy Bowman Gray Stadium from the city was snuffed out Thursday when state lawmakers killed the university's request for permission to borrow $7.5 million to buy the stadium. The legislative move sponsored by Sen. Don East, R-Surry, and pushed by Winston-Salem entrepreneur Harold Day opens the door wider to another potential bidder: Richard Childress, the NASCAR icon from Winston-Salem who sold peanuts as a child at Bowman Gray and started his racing career there in the 1950s. Bill Patterson, an executive vice president at Richard Childress Racing, met with Martha Wheelock, an assistant city manager, recently to talk about costs related to the stadium, he said. Bowman Gray has sentimental value for Childress. It's a landmark stock-car racing stadium and more could be done with it, Patterson said, though he declined to provide further information about what else could be done. "We do have an interest in it," he said.
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so in a round about way without coming out directly and saying it, RC is buying the old track, COOL !Charles W - BS Photographer at large -
RC bought TEXAS WORLD SPEEDWAY in College Station years ago , think he sold itComment
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I know there was some kinda rule saying that team owners couldnt own a track where NASCAR cars could be tested on, someone tried to buy PPIR a few years ago and NASCAR said noCharles W - BS Photographer at largeComment
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more stupid rules
they only run whelen modifieds at bowman grayComment
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