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Originally Posted by badgt
JR, lowcountry closed because the guy went off and bought another track. Summerville closed because charlie powell's a two timing dick head that stole from people. It's a two way street man, the good and the bad. It's good powell's gone, bad the tracks gone. Good that the owner of lowcountry invested in greelyville, bad that the only track reasonably is dorchester. (for me anyway).
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Jr's right. Both tracks closed because the property was much more profitable as a development, not the reasons posted above. My brother was involved in the Summerville transaction and the sale of some adjacent property to the track hinged on the racetrack land selling along with it.
The money that backed Lowcountry Dragway was from developers. There was also too much pressure to close the track because of the noise ordinances. When they started talking about mufflers being mandatory, many of the track only cars would not have gone along with it and raced elsewhere. Yes the track owners like to race, but money won out over racing.