Indy Cars at Gateway

[mdkiel]

OK it's vintage. I thought I'd stick it here for some to enjoy until it gets moved. Some awesome sounds and cars in this one...

[Darth Airbox]

Nice find. Wish we could somehow make Gateway work again.

[dakinca]

Nice find. Wish we could somehow make Gateway work again.

The new owner is trying to clean it up. They have the NHRA and amatuar drag racing about once a month. Not sure if it has the safer barrier though. If they could get a St. Louis company to sponsor it I think it would be a done deal, even with the fowl smell of the dump right there.

[Somberlain56]

The new owner is trying to clean it up. They have the NHRA and amatuar drag racing about once a month. Not sure if it has the safer barrier though. If they could get a St. Louis company to sponsor it I think it would be a done deal, even with the fowl smell of the dump right there.

It's had SAFER for a decade. If you could find a sponsor - any sponsor, at any track - it would be a done deal.

[Darth Airbox]

It's had SAFER for a decade. If you could find a sponsor - any sponsor, at any track - it would be a done deal.

Could see the SAFER barrier in the video. And regarding the sponsor, just like everything else, like I said, would hope it would work.

[cdnojibwedude]

When I think of East St. Louis or Madison, Illinois, they don't strike me as cities I want to visit. Google East St. Louis and the media does a great "spin" on scaring people away from the place.

[DocinOIF3]

The new owner is trying to clean it up. They have the NHRA and amatuar drag racing about once a month. Not sure if it has the safer barrier though. If they could get a St. Louis company to sponsor it I think it would be a done deal, even with the fowl smell of the dump right there.

Would be a nice place for St. Patty's day weekend. If I'm correct, St. Louis goes crazy for St. Pattys Day.

[Indyknut]

Would be a nice place for St. Patty's day weekend. If I'm correct, St. Louis goes crazy for St. Pattys Day.

We go absolutely bonkers for St. Patty's day.

Perhaps a pub crawl from downtown to the track.... right over the new Stan Musial bridge. We'll need a whole bunch of designated drivers though.

[Somberlain56]

When I think of East St. Louis or Madison, Illinois, they don't strike me as cities I want to visit. Google East St. Louis and the media does a great "spin" on scaring people away from the place.

If you go to Gateway you will have zero interaction with East St. Louis other than driving through it. It's no different than any other track that's been built outside of downtown. In fact Gateway's proximity to downtown St. Louis is actually better than almost any other purpose built oval out there.

[Indyknut]

The new owner is trying to clean it up. They have the NHRA and amatuar drag racing about once a month. Not sure if it has the safer barrier though. If they could get a St. Louis company to sponsor it I think it would be a done deal, even with the fowl smell of the dump right there.

To be fair, I've been to all the CART and IRL races/qual days/practice days there along with quite a few truck races and Nationwide races. I've never smelled the landfill. The wind would have to be blowing from east to west for that to happen and that doesn't happen very often.

Gateways biggest problem over the years has been parking. I believe initially they thought they'd be able to buy that wetlands area on the west side of the track and convert it to parking. The Illinois DNR has shot that down over the years calling that land a protected "wetlands". So they're stuck creatively cramming race fans onto the grounds, utilizing parking behind the truck stop across rt 203 from the track and even using the driving range for the Gateway National golf course, on the other side of that levee on the North side of the track. None of it is ideal and it's been the thorn it the tracks side when its come to expanding seating in order to attract a cup race. If they add seating in the T3/T4 part of the track they eliminate a bunch of on-site parking.

[Spike]

If they could get a St. Louis company to sponsor it I think it would be a done deal, even with the fowl smell of the dump right there.

[Spike]

OK it's vintage.

And very cool, too. Thanks for posting the video.

[lindaw]

And very cool, too. Thanks for posting the video.

The new owner of Gateway has spent $ll million in rennovations and he wants an Indy Car date. He already has a NASCAR truck date set for June 14 and a state of the art kart facility on the property. I'm hoping Mark Miles and Derrick Walker take a flight or a drive over to St. Louis to examine the possibility of a 2015 date--yet another oval in the midwest--I love it! St. Louis has 2 million residents and with some promotion (which was NEVER done in the past) it could be a big success!

[mdkiel]

The new owner of Gateway has spent $ll million in rennovations and he wants an Indy Car date. He already has a NASCAR truck date set for June 14 and a state of the art kart facility on the property. I'm hoping Mark Miles and Derrick Walker take a flight or a drive over to St. Louis to examine the possibility of a 2015 date--yet another oval in the midwest--I love it! St. Louis has 2 million residents and with some promotion (which was NEVER done in the past) it could be a big success!

Make it happen. I like the egg shaped oval with different radius turns where they have to shift.

[Spike]

The new owner of Gateway has spent $ll million in rennovations and he wants an Indy Car date.

I always like the Gateway track. Hopefully, the new owner will get his wish. Seems like a much better idea than trying to find some foreign, southern hemisphere location.