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News & Media
Recent headlines from various news and media outlets:
March 27, 2008: CollectorCarNet.com
Here is an article that mentions Genoa Motorsports Country Club and is a very good story on auto country clubs and their benefits for members. Read the article here...
March 18, 2008: CBS News
CBS 4 News did a great piece on Genoa Motorsports Park. Watch the video clip on their site here. Be patient, as the video will load right after a short video commercial.
November 30, 2007: New York Times
We were mentioned in the NY Times article talking about new Race Tracks.
Read the article here...
November 12, 2007: Road Racer X Magazine
An article/interview with Martyn Thake (our track designer) has been published in Road Racer X magizine regarding Genoa Motorsports County Club.
Read the article here...
July 27, 2007: High Performance Driving Magazine
We got mentioned in a new magazine called High-Performance Driving on page 7.
We scanned it here...
July 26, 2007: Vintage Motorsport Magazine
We got mentioned in Vintage Motorsport on page 10.
We scanned it here...
June 20, 2007: Victory Lane Magazine
We got a nice mention in Victory Lane magazine, a publication focused on Vintage and Historic racing.
We scanned it here...
June 4, 2007: Autoweek
We were mentioned in Autoweek's article on the growing phenomenon of country club style tracks.
Read it here...
May 23, 2007: Sports Car Magazine
Sports Car magazine, the SCCA publication, has a great article titled "New Racetracks on the Horizon" in their new May issue. It mentions our project and others.
We scanned it for you here...
May 20, 2007: Denver Post
Joey Bunch of the Denver Post did a great write-up on amateur racing in Colorado and mentioned the new race track plans.
Read the article here...
April 30, 2007: KCFR
"Some residents of Genoa, 10 miles east of Limon, see the prospect of economic revival in a planned auto racing "country club." Owners will sell memberships or rent track time to almost anyone who wants to take a spin. Ryan Warner talks to Kevin Rogers, president of the planned Genoa Motorsports Park of Colorado, and Patricia Vice, mayor of Genoa and director of economic development for Lincoln County." from KCFR
Listen to the file...
March 5, 2007: Vintage Motorsports
We had a cool write-up about our project on Vintage Motorsports. Read it here...
January 3, 2007: Autoweek
Click HERE to view the article.
At 6.26 miles, it might be the modern world’s longest road-race circuit, and it is coming to the plains of eastern Colorado. Land and zoning permits have been secured, and design work is under way for Genoa Motorsports Park, a multi-faceted complex on 2700 acres of rolling terrain near Genoa on I-70, about 95 miles from Denver International Airport. Read more... (half-way down the page, article is titled "Making Tracks")
December 4, 2006: Denver Post
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The design team behind the Grand Prix of Denver racetrack has been hired to work on a planned private, membership- based track in Genoa, about 100 miles southeast of Denver.
Crested Butte-based Motorsports Consulting Services will design the Genoa Motorsports Park site, which sits on 2,700 acres. The site will feature a 6.26-mile road course with two separate circuits that each have 100-foot elevation changes. The site is also slated to include a 3/8- mile paved oval track, a 3/8-mile dirt oval track and a 1/8-mile and 1/4-mile drag strip.
The size and elevation changes of the main road course would make the park unique, said Martyn Thake, owner of Motorsports Consulting, which has also worked on Grand Prix racetracks in Las Vegas, Houston and Phoenix.
"It's large; it's got water on the site and the ability to do everything we want to do with it," said Thake. "It really is a very unique site." Read more...
July 15, 2006: Radio Interview - The Fan @ AM 950
The Fan (AM 950) is an AM sports radio talkshow from local Denver, Colorado. Kevin Rogers (part owner of Genoa Motorsports Park) was interviewed by this radio station on July 15, 2006. We have posted a clip (11 minutes, 46 seconds) of that phone interview through the link below.
The clip is relatively lengthy, and may take around 45 minutes to completely download on a dial-up connection.
Filename: am950.mp3 | File Type: mp3 | File Size: 2.8 MB
Right-click on the filename above to download and/or listen to the interview...
June 27, 2006: Denver Post Article
Click HERE to view the article.
2 new raceways may rev up state
A closed racetrack near Fountain is up for sale, and developers obtain a permit to build one in Genoa on the Eastern Plains.
By Andy Vuong
Denver Post Staff Writer
DenverPost.com
A shuttered racetrack near Colorado Springs is on the market - and could potentially host races again - while a new motorsports park on the Eastern Plains is just hitting the starting blocks.
International Speedway Corp. bought Pikes Peak International Raceway and its 1,200-acre site for about $11 million in October and shuttered the facility. It put the property, near Fountain, on the market last week, real-estate broker Stew Mosko said Monday.
ISC acquired and closed the track because it wanted to build a speedway and motorsports facility in the metro Denver area and didn't want a nearby track competing for similar events. The company has yet to move forward.
A new owner of the Pikes Peak raceway could reopen the site as a motorsports facility but contractually would not be able to host large-scale ticketed events sanctioned by national racing bodies, such as NASCAR, said Mosko, a senior vice president with Fuller & Co. in Denver, who is handling the listing.
Instead, the track could host smaller pro or amateur events.
"We would love to see it reopen as a track," said Lisa Cochrun, economic-development director for Fountain, about 85 miles south of Denver.
Last year, before its closure, the raceway hosted the NASCAR Busch Series, the Indy Racing League, AMA superbikes and the U.S. Auto Club. A buyer would be prohibited from hosting events sanctioned by those four groups.
The racetrack, which has a 1-mile paved oval track and a 1 3/8-mile paved road course within the oval, sits on about 300 acres. About 250 acres of unpaved land north of the track was used for overflow parking. Another 650 acres south of the track is zoned for large-lot residential development.
Separately, a group of developers said Monday it has received a land-use permit to build a motorsports park in Genoa, about 100 miles east of downtown Denver.
Race Track Development LLC, based in Lincoln County, plans to build a 5-mile road course at the park, which may also feature a pair of 3/8-mile paved and dirt oval tracks. The park, to be located on about 2,600 acres, could host races as early as mid-2007.
"We chose this area because it has all of the commercial amenities nearby, but it's far away enough from residential development that it shouldn't be a hindrance," said Kevin Rogers of Race Track Development.
Rocky Mountain National Speedway and Second Creek Raceway in Commerce City shut down last year because of noise concerns. A third track, Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, is also in the path of development.
May 31, 2006: Media Announcement
In conjunction with the Lincoln County
Board of Commissioners, the Lincoln County Land Use
Commission, and the Lincoln County Economic Development
Corporation, Inc., Eastern Plains Investments, Inc.
is pleased to announce the approval of a land use permit
that will allow the development of a motorsports park
near Genoa in Lincoln County, Colorado. We anticipate
a new entity will develop approximately 2,700 acres
for the purpose of creating this motorsports park, to
potentially include a country club style five mile road
course and other race venues, which may include dirt
tracks, motocross, ATV’s, and drag racing for
vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, ATV’s.
November, 2005: Car and Driver Magazine
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Frustrated By Golf? Try Country-Club Racing... Racetrack-design guru Alan Wilson believes the next big thing in the motorsports world is the country club. In the U.S., Virginia International Raceway may have pioneered the idea of a racing country club, but Wilson thinks his latest baby, the recently opened Autobahn Country Club near Chicago, will be the one that gets copied.
"It's not so much the track design but the business model they'll be looking at," says Wilson, admitting most of his future business is already wrapped up in country-club tracks...
November 11, 2005: Forbes
Click HERE to view the article.
How to Drive Over 100 MPH and Not Get Busted
Do you have a fast car but nowhere to see what it will do? A driving country club may be coming to a metropolitan area near you...
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