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  1.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  03.04.2015 - 11:02 am
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Still open.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.04.2015 - 1:22 pm
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"The Trick Track"

As a paved track Tri-City Motor Speedway had a bizarre layout far
different than a normal oval. It featured five completely different
corners and four straightaways. For larger races like ASA the pits were
not on the frontstretch, they were over by turns 3, 4, and 5.

Tri-City closed in 2004 and there was an unsuccessful attempt to reopen
the track as a dirt track afterward. The track sat unused for seven
years until local promoter Steve Puvalowski bought it in 2009 and
rebuilt the facility with new bleachers and a new 3/8ths mile dirt track
layout in what was the former infield. The track reopened as a dirt
track in 2011 and has been a growing success ever since. The old paved
"Trick Track" layout has been unused since the reopening but it does
still exist and could be used in the future some day if the need or
desire arose, the old backstretch is now where the dirt track has its
victory lane while the former frontstretch serves as a pit area.

Tri-City has a special place in my heart. It was the local track where I
went to watch races at.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.04.2015 - 1:44 pm
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The name Tri-City Motor Speedway comes from the area this track is built
in. Auburn, MI is a small town (a farming community mostly) between the
three medium-sized cities of Bay City, Midland, and Saginaw.

This track, and Berlin Raceway downstate, is where ASA champion Mike
Eddy rose to fame.


  4.   Talk4Tar posted:
  03.07.2015 - 10:55 pm
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One of my all-time favorite paved tracks. Still alive as a dirt track,
but the paved track still lives. Measurement for the 1998 ASA race is
incorrect, it would have been considered at least a .500 mile. Was not a
.375 mile until it reopened as a dirt track. Beg of the webmaster to
correct asap.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.08.2015 - 4:28 pm
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When it was a paved track there was a quarter-mile oval contained within
the larger "Trick Track," the configuration included most of the
frontstretch before switching off to the infield area near Turn 1, which
the lower class local races ran on (late models and larger cars ran the
full track). The infield oval is one of the reasons why the track never
had a normal frontstretch pit area. The infield oval was largely
destroyed during the first attempt to convert Tri-City into a dirt track
which covered it and most of the old frontstretch. The remains of the
old infield oval were removed during the 2010-11 rebuilding with the new
dirt track surface occupying some of the area where it once stood.


  6.   Talk4Tar posted:
  01.22.2020 - 11:17 am
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Track is listed as .375 mile, that is incorrect. It was a 1/2 mile
layout that was raced with ASA.


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.10.2021 - 8:45 pm
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This track was built in 1967 on the site of a former coal mine. Today it
neighbors a junkyard, the White Birch Hills golf course, and many
farmers' fields.

The ASA National Tour was the highest level racing series ever to do
battle on the Trick Track, running 11 races here off and on from 1980 to
1998. Hometown hero Mike Eddy and his traditional rival Bob Senneker
each won three races here during that time and the 1997 race here, won
by Gary St. Amant, was broadcast live nationwide on TNN.


  8.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.10.2021 - 8:58 pm
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The most notable race so far on the new dirt track layout at the
Tri-City Motor Speedway took place on July 18, 2014 when a race for the
Midwest's regional Sprints on Dirt series gained some national attention
when NASCAR Cup star Tony Stewart unexpectedly showed up as a late,
unannounced entry. The race was Stewart's first in a sprint car since
his big season-ending wreck at Southern Iowa Speedway the prior August
and Smoke quickly showed no loss of dirt track skill as his
red-and-white Bass Pro Shops / Rush Truck Centers #14 ended the night in
victory lane after he bested former World of Outlaws racer Randy
Hannagan, Ryan Ruhl, and Dustin Daggett for the win.


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