FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Motor Speedway will remove about 21,000 seats from its backstretch and replace them with 74 lots for recreational vehicles.
The $2 million project announced Monday will transform the upper half of the backstretch into a series of 30-foot by 60-foot gated courtyards for recreational vehicles during NASCAR and IndyCar Series events.
The project is scheduled to be completed in time for the first of three 2009 racing weekends, April 2-5.
Each site will sell for $15,000 annually, good for all races within the calendar year. That price will include tickets and pit/infield passes for each race. Each site will have full service hookups for water, electric and live race feeds, plus concierge services that will include grocery shopping.
“Our demand for motor home space, even this year during a downturn economy, has continued to rise each and every year,” track president Eddie Gossage said. “Our fans have indicated to us that there was a need for this type of project.”
If the RV sites sell out in the area that will be known as Burnout Alley, that would generate $1.1 million in revenue a year.
The project will reduce overall seating capacity at the track to about 138,000. Even with the reduction, TMS officials expect their two NASCAR Sprint Cup races to remain among the largest-attended single-day sporting events in Texas.
Track officials also announced that the first two rows of remaining seats on the backstretch (about 1,080 seats) will be sold for $20 each, the lowest price ever for a Sprint Cup race at the track that opened in 1997. The remaining seats in the 10 rows above that and below the new RV pads will cost $40 each.
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