I still get a tear in my eye as I pass the site of the old place. I spent
years at that track, working, spectating, shooting and a very little bit of
racing, it was like home. I still can't believe they let it be plowed under.
Ontario was one thing, it hadn't been around long and it was obvious that it
was the wrong track in the wrong place and time, but Riverside was a
National Treasure which should have been nurtured and supported, not cast
aside by a bunch of bean countin' land developers.
rant over...yeah it's business, blah, blah, blah, I know...but I still miss
the place. Big thanks go out to Papy for giving us the first decent
simulation of the track and to Dave Noonan for making it better. I wonder if
he could do a "tires in the esses" patch for NL.
Now we need to get someone working on Turn 7-7a, it's like driving on your
favorite freeway on-ramp, over and over again...with no cops<g>. Here is a
link to a site that has a few old photos of Riverside in the Image Archive.
NASCAR fans might like the shot of Earnhart, Allison and Waltrip exiting
turn 8 together. http://simracing.com/eta/
--
don
"Getting hit by a meteorite is an accident...
everything else is driver-error."
> They killed it ages ago, to put up condos and houses and a mall.
> Same thing happened to the Ontario track too. Mostly the problem, I
> think, was that they weren't able to make enough money to keep the
> creditors at bay, and the value of the land went up so much that it made
> more sense to sell out.
> The new California Speedway is, btw, built near where the Ontario track
> was, but on an old Steel Mill property that probably would take too much
> work cleaning up to be economical to put a housing development on.
> Besides, anything NASCAR these days makes money hand over fist, too bad
> many Americans don't appreciate non-oval racing.
> says...
> > Riverside is no more?? When did the bastards kill it?
> > WHY???
> > Andre
> > --