Full Throttle

“On paper, it’s a viable project,” how many times have you heard that? I won’t make an estimate on my number, being “awarded” the math skills that require the removal of both shoes to get into the teens, lets just say its been a butt load.

Anyway Charleston, WV attorney Dave Higgins thinks the time is right for a $40 million, 6-year-old proposal to put a NASCAR racetrack in eastern Kanawha County, despite a national recession.

Note the age if this brainstorm, it was first floated in 2002. The Economic Development Grant Committee awarded the proposed racetrack a state grant then. A court challenge left the project without funding, and the proposed location has since been claimed for a Wal-Mart.

Higgins formed Thunder in the Mountains in 2006 to keep the idea alive and a group of advocates for the track has been meeting monthly since.

Well they were, he sent an e-mail on Tuesday canceling January’s meeting and hopes they can be held four times a year until economic conditions improve.

“Hopefully, we will have reason to meet in March or April,” Higgins wrote.

Uh-huh. What’s that old saying about wishing in one hand and shi… never mind you know which one fills up first.

What the hell, its been written “hope springs eternal in the human breast,” so Tom has that going for him.

And not much else in the current economic environment. Not to mention an over abundance of other tracks waiting for a NASCAR date and the sanctioning bodies full schedule.