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August 20, 2008
Next up, New Jersey Motorsport Park's Thunderbolt Raceway!
Labor Day weekend will find us at Thunderbolt Raceway at New Jersey Motorsports Park in the greater New York Metropolitan area.
The Aug. 30-31 event is the crown jewel on the NJMP inaugural schedule and will feature both the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and our series, the Grand-Am KONI Challenge.
Kevin York, looking forward to the event stated, "As a track owned and operated by our friends at Virginia International Raceway, I feel like it is a bit of a homecoming."
The Millville, N.J. facility, featuring the 2.3-mile Thunderbolt Raceway, is a $150 million world class Motorsports complex located on 700 acres of land adjacent to the Millville Airport. NJMP will feature road, oval and off-road racing venues, as well as luxurious spectator and participant facilities including VIP suites, shade tree garages, event garages and trackside villas.
Like its sister property, Virginia International Raceway, NJMP will mix world-class racing facilities with high-end hospitality venues. NJMP, however, will include multiple hotels and restaurants at varying price points, educational and research facilities in conjunction with Rowan University, classic car galleries and a clubhouse with pool, fitness and tennis facilities. In a nod to one of the seminal characters in the racing world, NJMP christened the media center and scoring tower the "Chris Economaki Tower" in honor of the New Jersey native.
The New Jersey Motorsports weekend event was added at the request of a number of KONI Challenge teams and participants to create exposure for the series in the greater New York and Philadelphia markets and continue to diversify the tracks that the series races on.
More information on New Jersey Motorsports Park is available at www.njmotorsportspark.com.*
*Some of this article's information courtesy of Grand Am.
Posted by YORK Group at August 20, 2008 02:12 AM