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I wish they would stop saying that Gateway is in St. Louis
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Re: I wish they would stop saying that Gateway is in St. Louis -
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Hello, All! Gateway Internationa Raceway is NOT in St. Louis. It is located in Madison, Illinois. They need to say the NASCAR Busch series race from Madison, ILLINOIS. |
JM> cities.
JM> For that matter, it's closer to East St Louis than it is to Madison,
JM> street address not withstanding (for reasons that would be obvious
JM> to anyone that had ever been to East St Louis, no businessman would
JM> ever want his enterprise associated with that city).
JM> Atlanta and Chicago immediately come to mind as tracks which are
JM> notably remote from their ostensible homes.
JM> And at least they didn't give it a silly hyphenated name like
JM> "Homestead-Miami".
JM> John
Yeah but at least all of those are in the same State.
With best regards, Max Altara. E-mail: valkryie01 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
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Yeah but at least all of those are in the same State. Yeah, you wouldn't see a sport like football having a team with the name of |
Carey in Manvel
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Yeah but at least all of those are in the same State. |
CA> name of
CA> a city (or state) with their home field in another. Or would you. .
CA> . .
CA> Carey in Manvel
I don't care about other sports.
If it doesn't have wheels and goes fast, I don't care about it.
With best regards, Max Altara. E-mail: valkryie01 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
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I don't care about other sports. If it doesn't have wheels and goes fast, I don't care about it. In that regard, we are not very different. Although I do pay attention to |
Carey in Manvel
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"Max Altara" <valkryie01 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:rnxoi.326$aj.214 (AT) newsfe12 (DOT) lga: Hello, All! Gateway Internationa Raceway is NOT in St. Louis. It is located in Madison, Illinois. They need to say the NASCAR Busch series race from Madison, ILLINOIS. It's closer to St Louis than most tracks are to their namesake cities. For that matter, it's closer to East St Louis than it is to Madison, street address not withstanding (for reasons that would be obvious to anyone that had ever been to East St Louis, no businessman would ever want his enterprise associated with that city). Atlanta and Chicago immediately come to mind as tracks which are notably remote from their ostensible homes. And at least they didn't give it a silly hyphenated name like "Homestead-Miami". John |
Orlando or Jacksonville? ~90 miles?
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"Max Altara" <valkryie01 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:3yLoi.39$KZ1.3 (AT) newsfe12 (DOT) lga... I don't care about other sports. If it doesn't have wheels and goes fast, I don't care about it. In that regard, we are not very different. Although I do pay attention to one sport played on the pitch, just not that much here in the US of A. Carey in Manvel |
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John McCoy wrote: "Max Altara" <valkryie01 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:rnxoi.326$aj.214 (AT) newsfe12 (DOT) lga: Hello, All! Gateway Internationa Raceway is NOT in St. Louis. It is located in Madison, Illinois. They need to say the NASCAR Busch series race from Madison, ILLINOIS. It's closer to St Louis than most tracks are to their namesake cities. For that matter, it's closer to East St Louis than it is to Madison, street address not withstanding (for reasons that would be obvious to anyone that had ever been to East St Louis, no businessman would ever want his enterprise associated with that city). Atlanta and Chicago immediately come to mind as tracks which are notably remote from their ostensible homes. And at least they didn't give it a silly hyphenated name like "Homestead-Miami". John isn't Chicagoland about as far from Chicago as Daytona is from either Orlando or Jacksonville? ~90 miles? G |
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"Gordon" <jimmygator (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:598eb$46a39b6f$471f6b11$13773 (AT) ALLTEL (DOT) NET... isn't Chicagoland about as far from Chicago as Daytona is from either Orlando or Jacksonville? ~90 miles? G More like 30 miles. |
It's about another 10 miles from the interstate exit to the track,
so call it 50 miles.
John
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Carey in Manvel
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Several tracks are not really in the town they say. Chicagoland is in Joliet, IL (50 miles away) Charlotte Motor Speedway (now called Lowes) is in Concord, NC Phoenix track is in Avondale, AZ etc, etc, etc How many people would know where any of these are without looking at a map if they called them the towns they really are in? "Max Altara" <valkryi... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:rnxoi.326$aj.214 (AT) newsfe12 (DOT) lga... Hello, All! Gateway Internationa Raceway is NOT in St. Louis. It is located in Madison, Illinois. They need to say the NASCAR Busch series race from Madison, ILLINOIS. Now I do realize its the St. Louis market. The stands do not even face St. Louis though. They face the landfill just to the east..... With best regards, Max Altara. E-mail: valkryi... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com |
And the Iowa Speedway is in Newton, not Des Moines. Big whoop.
Newton is "famous" for having some of the best Maid-Rites ever, but
those Nascar fans who aren't familiar with "flyover" country might
recognize Des Moines being the state capitol, so everyone says "Des
Moines" instead of Newton (which is about 30 miles away) ;-)
Anyone notice Landon Cassill in the Busch race? His first race -
caused one problem (but Mike Bliss is SUCH a whiner!) and was the
victim in the second, which took him out of the race. But his first
Busch race---qualified 6th and was running up front for much of his
time on the track - his pit crew gained him 3 spots during a pit stop.
He's an HMS development driver - from just down the road from me - and
just turned 18. He'll be in the Busch Indy race this weekend, too.
N.
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