Matt Romanowski

They did half the track today and the balance is happening tomorrow. I think this is pretty exciting. I will certainly make the trip there to drive the track.

https://neohioscca.com/nelson-ledges-announcement/

StoogeMoe

Wow. Way overdue.

KevinGross

Half a track paved in a day? They must be running slicks on the equipment, that is quick.

David993S

My avatar is at Nelson. Glad to hear the news. Much needed for many many years.

gbuff

Sounds like they did some remedial work beforehand but that short of a timeframe for the repave suggests to me that they're just putting down a topcoat of asphalt, which will be great for a while but probably won't last very long.....hope I'm wrong. The fact that they're doing anything at all is great news.

Similarly, I was at Mid-O last week and they're paving many of the access roads around the track, which is great.....now they just have to do the track itself

Gary

gobuffs

I saw they are going to put cars in the new track June 16. They surface isn't going to hold up well. Needs more time after paving to cure. Not going to turn out well unfortunately.

pu911rsr

Nelson Ledges is a killer track but pavement was crap last time I drove there in the late 80's. Love to it drive again.
Phil

AudiOn19s

New ownership putting in effort to improve facilities is good to see.

As with others, interested to see how it holds up and where else they take the place. The track is a fun little place to drive. I really miss $100 funday lapping there. Unfortunately it looks like funday pricing has already gone up more than 2x as well

grrrmonster

What are doing for safety improvements? Those tire piles are death traps- will launch a car if they hit one

Burger

Seem to recall they were making it a private facility.

Burger

Guess that was wrong?

https://neohioscca.com/nelson-ledges-announcement/

2BWise

I almost didn't believe it when I heard. The repave rumor has been going around for years. It's great to see it get a little love. I refuse to take the formula car there. It just destroys them in short order. Last time I was there was a Chump race in '11. While fun, the track was in really bad shape, so I'll be anxious to get down to try it with a proper surface.

pontifex4

+1. I'm surprised they were able to sell it in the first place with all those tires.

Having said that, it's a fun track -- glad to see they're putting some work into it.

Kurt R

You hit the tires, you slosh the water around and the mosquitoes get riled up. When your car comes to a stop they swarm on you and drain all your blood. After the first freeze the tow truck can retrieve your car and your corpse can be returned to your loved ones.

Unless they dig the whole thing up and repave it with 16" of reinforced concrete, the track will always move with the swamp and any repave job will break up in 3 years, but won't be repaired for 7-10 years. So you get 2 years of decent track, and then wait for the next repave.

There's a Citation wheel somewhere in the woods off turn 1. If anyone finds it I know who it belongs to. (Chevy Citation, not the airplane)

Matt Romanowski

I was thinking FC, FF, or FV.