Antique & Classic Cars Blog

This coming weekend, Sept 12-14, the amazing Brainerd International Raceway is celebrating its 40th anniversary, as well as completion of it new 2.5 mile 13-turn road circuit. There’s going to be food and music and lots of track use, including you if you wish. Motorsports enthusiasts of all levels will have opportunity to get out onto a major raceway.

Two friends and I have in its infancy a scheme to go racing next year in a ‘71 Midget. We won’t have dough for a race motor, but we should be able to get four lighter wheels, some racing tires, roll bar, racing brake pads, 5-point harness and probably a better seat, as both of my friends are taller than I am. We’ve gotten clearance from one of the two spouses involved. This plan hinges on sign-off by the other…. If it falls through, I still may look into it because I’ve gotten so excited about the prospect just thinking about it. (TR6 has be done first, I’m told.)

So if any of you out there have ever given thought to buckling in and rouding a track, the coming weekend would be a good way to see more of what it’s all about. There will be lots of different events making use of the track and many, many people familiar with all of motorsports’ opportunities here in the state and region.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 8:42 pm and is filed under Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.