Saturday, October 31, 2009

Earnhardt Jr. pulls out of proposed Alabama racetrack

So tonight I was looking around on the net and I got to thinking, wasn't Dale Jr involved as an investor in a proposed race track in southern Alabama? That got me to searching around the net to find out if Dale was still working with the project that was to be named "Alabama Motorsports Park, A Dale Earnhardt Jr Speedway." The following article is from CupScene.com


August 12th, 2009

(By Greg Engle, NDN Editor, NASCAR Examiner)

There will be no Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway in the foreseeable future, at least not in Mobile Alabama.

Earnhardt Jr. has removed himself from the list of investors of the proposed motorsports facility under construction. Also gone are Earnhardt Jr.’s sister Kelly Earnhardt Elledge, and brother Kerry.

“Dale is focusing on racing, and his sponsor demands have gone up incredibly,” Bill Futterer of the North Carolina marketing firm PSE-3 and Futterer Partners told several Alabama news outlets Tuesday night.

“We have agreed not to extend his personal services agreement,” Futterer added. “We’re not upset, and they are not angry.”

When it was first announced the facility was to be named ‘Alabama Motorsports Park, A Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway’.

Originally the park was planned to open in fall 2009 and be fully operational in 2010.

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