Unity Raceway is not being bulldozed

The infield at Unity Raceway looks like the dirt banks protecting each of its 10 light poles decided to multiply this week. All the extra dirt led to speculation that the race track was about to be sold.

Not true, according to Unity general manager Ralph Nason Jr., who addressed the topic during Friday night's driver's meeting.

"The dirt is for a super-cross track," Nason said. "It's not for an airport or anything like that. I heard we were going to bulldoze the place and build an airport to land planes. That's not true. It's for super-cross."

Nason is hoping to have the track completed in a few weeks, and it's his hope that he can invite some super-cross teams to race 2 or 3 times this fall at Unity. Those programs would be held on Saturday afternoons.

"They usually race on Sundays, and I don't want to step on anyone's points deals or anything like that," Nason said. "The facility is here for them. There's plenty of room for camping, concession stands, rest rooms, all that stuff."

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For those of you trapped at home, just dying for some updates from the track tonight -- and judging by the crowd in the grandstands, most of you are -- there are 14 Super Streets here for the Gary Mitchell Memorial 75 later this evening. That's 3 more than were here for a similar 75-lap, $800-to-win Super Street open won by Nate Weston in early July.

Among the notable "out of towners" are former track champion Dan Trask, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway regular and 2006 champion Mike Landry and the former Unity driver turned PASS Sportsman Weston.

Weston and Landry each won their respective heat races, and then each said that the other one was the car to beat come feature time.