For close to a decade, the Nashville Super Speedway has been a part of the many sporting event varieties offered to the residents of middle Tennessee and greater Nashville area.
However, at the end of this year, the track out in Wilson County will close its doors for good. To some, this would seem a huge blow to the area but, unfortunately, this has been imminent for some time.
Opening in 2001, the Nashville Super Speedway was intended to bring automotive racing back to Tennessee.
The parent company, Dover Motorsports, took a risk in building the Nashville track, along with two others in Memphis and St. Louis. The intent was to bring NASCAR sanctioned races to the middle Tennessee area. The old race track at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds had a long history as a NASCAR track before it became outdated for that purpose.
The Super Speedway did as intended, at least for awhile.
It also drew the attention of the Indy Racing League for a few races though they have not been back since 2008.
However, Dover Motorsports has announced that they will not seek NASCAR sanctioning for 2012.
This essentially means that the track will be closing its doors, as NASCAR was the only series that ran professional races at Nashville Super Speedway.
The future of the track and other uses for it is still geing sorted out.