Bob Lutz on the Goat Rodeo!

Date: Tuesday March 20, 2012

Place: RacersReunion Radio "Goat Rodeo"

Time: 7 PM Eastern

Expectations: He'll never be the same after this!

Bob Lutz, President and CEO of the NASCAR Racing Experience and prospective new owner of the Myrtle Beach Speedway will be our guest. He has some awesome plans for this historic racing venue that may include soft-walls, new suites, paving....etc. Sounds like Bob may be thinking of luring back one of NASCAR's top three (probably trucks?) and or ARCA.

We're excited!...hope you are too. Join us. We'll treat him so many ways, he's bound to like one of them....you too!!

Only after reading this post did I realize that we weren't talking about Bob Lutz, the long time player at General Motors/Chevrolet Division who was so instrumental for so many years in the GM NASCAR decision making.

Excerpts from a recent Associated Press Article :

NASCAR cars among new Myrtle Beach attractions
By BRUCE SMITH

Associated Press Mon, Mar 12, 2012

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) Free falling from a 60-foot tower, slipping down an oceanfront zip line or fighting through a curve in a car once driven by a NASCAR great are among the new attractions that will greet visitors to Myrtle Beach during a new beach season.

The NASCAR Racing Experience comes this year to the Myrtle Beach Speedway just across the Intracoastal Waterway from downtown. Also opening next month, it will make it easier to get behind the wheel of a car that was once driven by a NASCAR driver like Jimmie Johnson or Jeff Gordon.

Based in Charlotte, N.C., the company offers its classroom training and track driving experience at 10 NASCAR tracks around the country. But because it now owns the Myrtle Beach track where NASCAR drivers drove decades ago, it will be more accessible to would-be stock car drivers.

"If you come off the beach and you want to drive a race car, you can come up here," said Bob Lutz, the president and CEO of the company. "We would like people to make reservations but we will accept walk-ups. In other locations like Charlotte, we fill up the experiences two or three months in advance. Here we will have a lot more flexibility."

Last year, about 70,000 people participated in the NASCAR Racing Experience at the other tracks. This year, in Myrtle Beach alone, Lutz expects 40,000. His company is planning several million dollars in upgrades to the track during the next three years and plans races and other events beyond the driving experience.

About 75 percent of those who sign up for the experience are men. But the Myrtle Beach Speedway is in an ideal location with the Tanger Outlets complex just across the street, Lutz said. Couples and families can split up and take their pick, with shoppers heading to the nearly 100 stores and thrill-seekers taking on the challenges of the speedway's half-mile oval.

NASCAR RACING EXPERIENCE: Located at Myrtle Beach Speedway off U.S. 501 north of Myrtle Beach; http://www.nascarracingexperience.com/NRE/ , Opening April 18.

Here is the "official" info:

Hey folks!

In keeping with our mission here at RacersReunion, supporting local short tracks (as well as racing history) is of great importance. After all, they represent our true roots. Some feel there may be resurgentinterest in local racing over the next decade. I like like that idea...how about you?

Tonight on Racing Through History (the Goat Rodeo) we have the opportunity to hear from someone who is risking millions to breath new life into a struggling short track with history dating back to the 1950s...Myrtle Beach Speedway.

Bob Lutz, President/CEO of the NASCAR Racing Experience (and prospective new race track owner) will be our in-studio guest.We are very much interested to hear his plans to learn why he is prepared to make a major investment in local short-track racing. We hope you tune in for a listen!

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