Mobile Bay Blog

MOBILE, Ala. -- A new race track venue is scheduled to open in the Mobile, Alabama area in late 2009 to earily 2010. The new venue will be known as Alabama Motorsports Park and has a website with a description of plans for the new facility. The website address is: www.alabamamotorsportspark.com and Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kerry Earnhardt, & Kelley Earnhardt-Elledge are some of the investors and will help with input on many facets of the facility. Check out the website and click on The Project and then on the left side of the website click on Site Plans or Renderings the click on the image to get a better view of what the facility might look like when it is finished.

The new Alabama Motorsports Park will include:

Oval Track
7/10-mile lighted oval with 75,000 seats expandable to 125,000 seats with room for 100 haulers.

Sprint Track
3/8-mile dirt track designed to attract national sprint car events.

Road Course
3.5 mile road course in two distinct, but connecting, sections to provide for unique testing capabilities permanent seating and traditional expanse used for road-racing spectators.

Dragway
1/4-mile drag strip designed to attract national drag racing events

Winners Circle Program
Enables fans and or business owners to purchase capability to guarantee same for any event at any motorsports venue; and program would not require Winner Circle participant to purchase tickets to every event.

Parking
Parking will be planned as part of transportation hub that will enable parking areas to provide convenient customer acess to all venues; and special reserved parking areas are planned for Winners Circle participants.

RV Lot
The RV lot will be divide into three sections.
500 pull-through concrete slips