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McCook Gazette

Taking out Turn Two

Friday, October 31, 2014
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette

Charlie Collins wipes out Turn Two of the stock car race track on the Red Willow County fairgrounds in McCook, Nebraska, performing early dirt work for the new "Alice Kiplinger Building," a warm-up arena and multi-purpose building that will complete a triangle of horse arenas given to the county by McCook-area rancher Tom Kiplinger. The new building will measure 130x130 feet and cover 16,900 square feet. The building will sit north of the St. Patrick's Catholic Church food booth and south of a fairgrounds maintenance shop at the Q Street entrance/exit. Its location necessitates the elimination of the race track. Engineer Jeff Tidyman, of Engineering International, will open bids for the new building Monday at 2 p.m., at his office at 402 Norris Ave., and present them to fair board members at their regular meeting Wednesday.

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  • Well that sucks that there will be no more racing in McCook. It was my favorite track to go to. Very disappointed.

    -- Posted by raidersfan on Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 9:54 AM

  • that race track brings a lot of money into the mccook economy. isn't there somewhere else to put the building?

    -- Posted by quick13 on Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 3:15 PM

  • Mr. Klein will be happy now.

    -- Posted by rmartne on Sun, Nov 2, 2014, at 8:01 AM

  • Shaking my head.

    -- Posted by 314billl on Sun, Nov 2, 2014, at 9:02 AM

  • This would be a good opportunity to add some additional restrooms and maybe even showered for those using the Kiplinger

    -- Posted by dennis on Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 8:14 AM

  • It is a sad ending to an era but NOT the fault of the County. The last few promoters didn't feel the need to take care of the drivers or their sponsors. Yes, in years past the racing community did bring in revenue to McCook. However, when you cancel so many due to "possibility" of rain; wait until the night before to prep (resulting in a crappy track where vehicles are torn up unnecessarily); don't pay your bills; lack of funds to pay the driver's winnings, what else is to be expected? The last promoter decided to buy a new vehicle instead of doing what is right and pay his outstanding debts.

    Guess it's time to throw our support to another era which brings in more revenue to the City year round instead of just a few weekends a year and seems to have a morally upstanding promoter who actually cares about others instead of himself.

    I'm a huge race fan, but understand completely.

    -- Posted by LOAL4USA on Mon, Nov 3, 2014, at 9:36 AM
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