Thanks for sticking out the racetrack project thus far! We are finally getting to the point that we are going to be making more noticeable improvements to the property if things stick to course. THANK YOU for everyone that's been watching, and sharing the vides over the last couple of years. Without you guys helping out that way, we wouldn't be where we are today. If you would like to help out the track, there's a few ways you can do it. Like the video, subscribe to the channel, and share the video on your facebook page to spread the awareness. Those are all free! Alternatively, you can really help us out by picking up some merch at our storefront here: black-river-motorsports.creator-spring.com/ Thanks everyone! Drop a comment and tell everyone where you are watching from!
I'm watching this from Oulu, Finland. Fun fact: there is actually a town called Oulu in Wisconsin 30 miles from your track. The town got its name in the late 1800s when a lot of Finns immigrated there from the city I live in. They moved there to work for the lumber industry and they gave a familiar name to their new town. There are actually a lot of other places too in Minnesota and Michigan that are named after Finnish towns and cities the same way as Oulu, Wisconsin is.
I'm watching from Val-d'Or, Québec, Canada. Your channel was suggested to me by TH-cam when you posted your first video of the racetrack. I'm watching Cleetus and Demoranch that does their renovations, that's why I saw your channel. Very fun watching people keeping and updating existing parts of history ans make their own.
Watching from Denmark, jumped in here from early stages. Forget all the criticism that actual professionals could do better. For me, it's about the fire of enthusiasm and the very core soul of motorsport that is brought here. Again; thanks!
Watching from Ottawa Canada, been following this since the start your doing a great job! Hopeful one summer I can make the 900mile drive out to the track.
I always love watching the restoration, repair, and maintenance videos of your track! The place just keeps loooking better and better! Thank you, for sharing videos of all the work.👍🏻
I feel so good checking the progression of your facilities throughout these years since you first bought the place. it relaxes me and somehow I feel connected to the place because I've watched all of your videos since you started uploading although I won't be able to visit the place in person. keep up the great work and I hope for the best for you and your projects. from Greece 🇬🇷
Watching from Australia since day one. There's a similar old race track in my town but I'm still young and working my way up the career ladder to afford to do this, but in future I'd love to buy the track and start restoring it like you've done.
That stuff is serious ASMR as it is being laid down. It's good to see this project is still going, I hope for this tracks continued success throughout the years so you can continue to preserve and improve upon it!
I'm watching from Atlanta, seen a couple big historic track closures in America (Devil's Bowl and Rockford) this year so it's always great to see people keeping these tracks going!
Hi ✌️, watching from England, been watching since you got the track. The work you’ve put in is phenomenal mate, compare it now to when you started! Love it, wish it was over here though 😂👍
I am watching from southwest Michigan. I have also been watching your progress from the beginning of the track purchase. You can be very proud of the work you have done to get the track and facility to where it is today. Well done!
Damn I was hoping that small corner turn was getting paved! Thanks for shooting low on the seal coating guy so we didn't see anymore "cracks". Looking forward to 2024!
I am watching since day one of this journey. I am from Cyprus, and I get a bit jealous of the community you guys have there in the US. Much love and good job with this track. You could also use the asphalt track for kart racing. put some tyre walls to form a ''new'' layout for karting. Clay is too much work and it's not worth it in my opinion.
It's one thing when you're a racer...you take necessary precautions to protect your own life and hopefully you understand the risks. When you are a spectator, you assume the track will have safety measures put in place to prevent spectator injuries. Even right off the start, if a car goes into the grass, it's barely going to slow down until it starts hitting "stuff". They need to bring in K-Rails at minimum, to separate the track from the spectator seating areas.
It is inspiring to see how you prove that, when you have a comprehensive plan, even if it is on a limited budget, you can keep going forward with such a large project, instead of the elements moving it backwards. From The Netherlands, Europe, thank you for inspiring and entertaining.
I can’t believe how long that asphalt has lasted already. In 12 years we’ve had to have our asphalt driveway redone three times and are past due for a fourth. Our roads here in Oklahoma are the same way, 3-5 years and it gets torn up and resurfaced. We tried the seal coat but it didn’t seem to last any longer. We do get a very large amount of temp swings below freezing at night and above during the day so the heaving is amplified compared to places up north that are frozen most of the winter.
You sir are doing a fantastic job in resurrecting a track that has seen many years of abandonment and neglect. While it would be awesome to see the paves track extended beyond the kart track and into the banked section right at the back of the property to make a reasonably long fast track that could potentially host more events, both autocross and maybe drifting. I know that would be a huge project and many many thousands of dollars. Though I will admit watching from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 makes me miss being over in the US. Having not visited in 10 years.
Watching from NJ. ‘It’s like watching paint dry,’ you said about seal coating the track. And here we all are watching it. Funny how that works ain’t it?
I always love to see some progress on the track. I'm watching from Kołobrzeg, Poland 🇵🇱! We have some old post-german/post-soviet abandoned airstrips here which are used as drift tracks but not many are getting some maintenance :/
Interesting. Here in the United States many SCCA clubs run on old airstrips/airfields from a similar Era. They lend themselves very well to autocrossing, which is cool. Thanks for checking in from Poland! I think you are the first person to comment from there.
My name is Andreas from a small town (165 people) called Liedertswil in Switzerland watching you for quite some time now :-) came for the f-body content and now enjoying your race track videos. As race tracks were banned in Switzerland (because of the LeMans accident ages ago) we do not have any tracks anymore :-( The nearest track is a private track in France, around 90-120mins from here but as said is a private track. The next bigger open tracks are Dijon or Hockenheim. We have some nice hill climb races and some auto cross but it is getting harder and harder every year to get the approval for such stuff because of this green and leftist idiots we have here in Europe.... On most racetracks you cannot go over 100dB for example, some it is even less. Makes it really hard for your older cars to pass these limits. Mine was constantly over it, got kicked out from Hockenheim :-( because I had 103dB. So please enjoy what you have there. You're private paradise to enjoy. I know it is hard work to maintain such stuff, be it from a human resource or from a financial point of view but it is worth it! I wish we could have land that cheap here (On some regions here the 1m3 costs CHF1500.00 -2500.00 upwards and you just have the land without any permits to do something on it) Let alone that you never can build something like this here anyways without having the police the next hour on the land stopping it haha. Keep up the good work!
With all the news lately of tracks closing etc. It's encouraging to see you bringing the track back to life for your local racing community. I lost my local track early last year after being in operation over sixty years. I am watching from South Florida.
watching from the netherlands. been watching since day 1 and i love how far its come so far! i wish we had a small track like this over here but sadly we dont. keep it up!
i've watched every episode about the track...watching from southeastern connecticut... we still have 3 circle race tracks in our small state operating on a weekly basis, including the nationally known Stafford speedway
Should help it out. Hopefully prolong it's life for many more years! Thanks for checking in from PA. I was just there this Summer during Autocross Week.
Where in PA was the Autocross week ? In a few months I will be finishing up my DF Goblin Kit Car , I plan on doing some autocrosses with it.@@Greenlightfilming
So much cracking, looks like they might have skipped some steps when they built it the first time. Good work getting it up to scratch, its expensive stuff to own a race track! /Sweden
They didn't really skip any steps the first time. Asphalt deteriorates with age, and use. This is all normal wear no different than a driveway that's 13ish years old. Especially considering some of the heavy equipment and trailers that have been regularly hauled over it.
Great stuff on keeping that track together. Crack sealing will help preserve the asphalt from cracking more. Not to sound like a salesman but have you looked at other crack sealing products? I’ve used a product called Mastic one by Crafco, we used it here in Canada and has held together and performed excellent on a major arterial road. Might be cost prohibitive but might want to have a look. I’m all about pavement preservation, it’s my day job
? is chip n seal process something that could help just apply tar then put rock on top compact with roller then use street sweeper to remove loose rock austin tx
Is it good practice to seal coat over rubber that’s on the surface? Genuine question, I am no expert but I would think when the rubber lifts the coating would come off with it?
If the drag racing introduction is a hint of what’s to come, you’re going to resurrect the Apollo….. a track that hasn’t been seen in 47 years. Hope I don’t jinx it but, how can a car guy not be excited about that
You can't seal new Asphalt until it has cured. The heat transfer oil has to evaporate which takes a month or two. Otherwise the sealer will just peel off immediately.
I see what you mean by sketchy. Not sure I'd be comfortable with the crowd being that close to the strip during the start. One car sweeving from the track anc they could get hurt. [watches literally ten more eeconds] Oh. That's what you meant...
@Lethalgarage agreed. I can also see it benefiting people getting their 60' down in the faster stuff, but at the end of the day 330' is as long as what we already have, and that's short.
I love the project, but i aint gon lie i dont the see the true point of it since the track is too small to do some proper Racing on. Could you please explain to me?
Thanks for sticking out the racetrack project thus far! We are finally getting to the point that we are going to be making more noticeable improvements to the property if things stick to course. THANK YOU for everyone that's been watching, and sharing the vides over the last couple of years. Without you guys helping out that way, we wouldn't be where we are today.
If you would like to help out the track, there's a few ways you can do it. Like the video, subscribe to the channel, and share the video on your facebook page to spread the awareness. Those are all free!
Alternatively, you can really help us out by picking up some merch at our storefront here: black-river-motorsports.creator-spring.com/
Thanks everyone! Drop a comment and tell everyone where you are watching from!
I'm watching this from Oulu, Finland. Fun fact: there is actually a town called Oulu in Wisconsin 30 miles from your track. The town got its name in the late 1800s when a lot of Finns immigrated there from the city I live in. They moved there to work for the lumber industry and they gave a familiar name to their new town. There are actually a lot of other places too in Minnesota and Michigan that are named after Finnish towns and cities the same way as Oulu, Wisconsin is.
I live right by Oulu, Wi
@@jaybird4756 That's pretty neat!
I snowmobile around Oulu, WI all the time! I'm about an hour from there
@@715farmer nice!
I must say, you're doing a fantastic job. With tracks closing everywhere, we need more guys like you.
I'm watching from Australia 🇦🇺.
I'm watching from Val-d'Or, Québec, Canada. Your channel was suggested to me by TH-cam when you posted your first video of the racetrack. I'm watching Cleetus and Demoranch that does their renovations, that's why I saw your channel. Very fun watching people keeping and updating existing parts of history ans make their own.
Been watching since day one here in Britain 🇬🇧 We've lost so many short oval tracks here. It's great to see one being brought back to life @BriSCA
Watching from Denmark, jumped in here from early stages. Forget all the criticism that actual professionals could do better.
For me, it's about the fire of enthusiasm and the very core soul of motorsport that is brought here. Again; thanks!
Watching from Ottawa Canada, been following this since the start your doing a great job! Hopeful one summer I can make the 900mile drive out to the track.
That would be one heck of a drive, ha. I appreciate you checking in! Thanks for watching the videos.
I always love watching the restoration, repair, and maintenance videos of your track! The place just keeps loooking better and better! Thank you, for sharing videos of all the work.👍🏻
I feel so good checking the progression of your facilities throughout these years since you first bought the place. it relaxes me and somehow I feel connected to the place because I've watched all of your videos since you started uploading although I won't be able to visit the place in person. keep up the great work and I hope for the best for you and your projects. from Greece 🇬🇷
Watching from Australia since day one. There's a similar old race track in my town but I'm still young and working my way up the career ladder to afford to do this, but in future I'd love to buy the track and start restoring it like you've done.
That stuff is serious ASMR as it is being laid down.
It's good to see this project is still going, I hope for this tracks continued success throughout the years so you can continue to preserve and improve upon it!
I'm watching from Atlanta, seen a couple big historic track closures in America (Devil's Bowl and Rockford) this year so it's always great to see people keeping these tracks going!
Hi ✌️, watching from England, been watching since you got the track. The work you’ve put in is phenomenal mate, compare it now to when you started! Love it, wish it was over here though 😂👍
Thanks for being a long hauler! Appreciate the continued support from across the pond 🤘🤘
I have been watching your track series since the early videos. You have made a lot of progress with the track. i am watching from central Georgia.
First Georgia check in so far. Appreciate you watching from Down South!
I am watching from southwest Michigan. I have also been watching your progress from the beginning of the track purchase. You can be very proud of the work you have done to get the track and facility to where it is today. Well done!
Awesome work once again... Watching from Ontario, Canada
Track Property is Really taking shape Mr Greenlight!! Sealing asphalt is Preventable Maintenance!! 💯🇺🇸🔥 North Carolina 💯🇺🇸🔥
Damn I was hoping that small corner turn was getting paved!
Thanks for shooting low on the seal coating guy so we didn't see anymore "cracks".
Looking forward to 2024!
I am watching you from Germany 🇩🇪, since you bought this Racetrack. Youre doing a great job. 🤘
Woke up an hour early to watch the track update! I love these videos!
From Europe, Croatia!
I grew up in Bemidji, I’ll have to check that out. Hope your track survives the winter.
It'll make it. Check out that airport race next year, it's worth the trip if you are still local.
I am watching from Serbia! Been watching from the start. I guess I won't ever see this track in person but it's fun to see the new updates.
We both love watching your track and have been since you started. Melbourne, Australia.
Seen 'em all. Great progress, watching the project creeping off the start and now getting "critical mass". From Nr London and Scotland, UK
I really like your video been watching from day 1. From Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
I am watching since day one of this journey. I am from Cyprus, and I get a bit jealous of the community you guys have there in the US. Much love and good job with this track. You could also use the asphalt track for kart racing. put some tyre walls to form a ''new'' layout for karting. Clay is too much work and it's not worth it in my opinion.
It's one thing when you're a racer...you take necessary precautions to protect your own life and hopefully you understand the risks. When you are a spectator, you assume the track will have safety measures put in place to prevent spectator injuries. Even right off the start, if a car goes into the grass, it's barely going to slow down until it starts hitting "stuff". They need to bring in K-Rails at minimum, to separate the track from the spectator seating areas.
Hi I’m watching from UK from the start of your adventure. You’re a good member of your community. Keep up the great work.
It is inspiring to see how you prove that, when you have a comprehensive plan, even if it is on a limited budget, you can keep going forward with such a large project, instead of the elements moving it backwards.
From The Netherlands, Europe, thank you for inspiring and entertaining.
I can’t believe how long that asphalt has lasted already. In 12 years we’ve had to have our asphalt driveway redone three times and are past due for a fourth. Our roads here in Oklahoma are the same way, 3-5 years and it gets torn up and resurfaced. We tried the seal coat but it didn’t seem to last any longer.
We do get a very large amount of temp swings below freezing at night and above during the day so the heaving is amplified compared to places up north that are frozen most of the winter.
Hello! Born in Wisconsin... living in Cambodia! I love the channel content! Keep it coming!
Watching from Florida Space Coast since you started working on the track. Love your progress!
You sir are doing a fantastic job in resurrecting a track that has seen many years of abandonment and neglect. While it would be awesome to see the paves track extended beyond the kart track and into the banked section right at the back of the property to make a reasonably long fast track that could potentially host more events, both autocross and maybe drifting. I know that would be a huge project and many many thousands of dollars.
Though I will admit watching from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 makes me miss being over in the US. Having not visited in 10 years.
Watching from NJ. ‘It’s like watching paint dry,’ you said about seal coating the track. And here we all are watching it. Funny how that works ain’t it?
I'm watching from Poland. Algorithm proposed me your first video years ago and sticked to the channel since that time
🇩🇪 German here. Keep it up! 👍
New seal looks great. The spectator setup at the drag race is a bit spicy for my personal preference, but to each their own.
I'm watching from Estonia - good job! Big project, but i see, you like it, so, great year for you!
really enjoy the improvements on the track and cannot wait to see the kart track progress, upstate ny!!!
all that work ya did on the grass ya did paid off it looks awsome
Followed this series from day one. Been great to see it come together. Much love from Scotland!
awesome job watching from the state of Oregon , take care see you on the next
i lost my jaw when that S-10 went left into the AUDI!!!
I always love to see some progress on the track. I'm watching from Kołobrzeg, Poland 🇵🇱! We have some old post-german/post-soviet abandoned airstrips here which are used as drift tracks but not many are getting some maintenance :/
Interesting. Here in the United States many SCCA clubs run on old airstrips/airfields from a similar Era.
They lend themselves very well to autocrossing, which is cool.
Thanks for checking in from Poland! I think you are the first person to comment from there.
Great work out there!
Watching from Connecticut.
Been following from the start of these track videos. South Australia.
Thanks for checking in! Quite a few folks watching from Aus.
My name is Andreas from a small town (165 people) called Liedertswil in Switzerland watching you for quite some time now :-) came for the f-body content and now enjoying your race track videos. As race tracks were banned in Switzerland (because of the LeMans accident ages ago) we do not have any tracks anymore :-( The nearest track is a private track in France, around 90-120mins from here but as said is a private track. The next bigger open tracks are Dijon or Hockenheim. We have some nice hill climb races and some auto cross but it is getting harder and harder every year to get the approval for such stuff because of this green and leftist idiots we have here in Europe.... On most racetracks you cannot go over 100dB for example, some it is even less. Makes it really hard for your older cars to pass these limits. Mine was constantly over it, got kicked out from Hockenheim :-( because I had 103dB.
So please enjoy what you have there. You're private paradise to enjoy. I know it is hard work to maintain such stuff, be it from a human resource or from a financial point of view but it is worth it! I wish we could have land that cheap here (On some regions here the 1m3 costs CHF1500.00 -2500.00 upwards and you just have the land without any permits to do something on it) Let alone that you never can build something like this here anyways without having the police the next hour on the land stopping it haha.
Keep up the good work!
With all the news lately of tracks closing etc. It's encouraging to see you bringing the track back to life for your local racing community.
I lost my local track early last year after being in operation over sixty years.
I am watching from South Florida.
Watching from North Carolina, born and raised in Duluth Minnesota not far from the track.
Watching from Manchester UK 🙂Looking good..
Great Work! Been watching from the start. Eastern Ontario, Canada
Sweet, thanks for checking in. Few guys from the Great White North here.
watching from new zealand cant wait to see what you do with the rest of the tracks
Thanks for supporting from so far away! We will keep working on all of them. More to come 👍👍👍
Watching from Bathurst Australia.
watching from the netherlands. been watching since day 1 and i love how far its come so far! i wish we had a small track like this over here but sadly we dont. keep it up!
Same here haha!
There's loads of stock car tracks in the Netherlands
i've watched every episode about the track...watching from southeastern connecticut... we still have 3 circle race tracks in our small state operating on a weekly basis, including the nationally known Stafford speedway
Thanks for checking in from CT! That's one place I've yet to make it to. Lucky to have that many tracks around you.
You just need 300 feet for sand drags and 300 feet shut down , then you could get a ton of fans, right, thanks BigAl California, lol thanks
Another fella mentioned that drag strip. I feel like the really fast guys would complain about how short that run would be.
The sealing should help the asphalt make it through the winter.
Still kinda warm here in Manheim Pennsylvania.
Should help it out. Hopefully prolong it's life for many more years! Thanks for checking in from PA. I was just there this Summer during Autocross Week.
Where in PA was the Autocross week ? In a few months I will be finishing up my DF Goblin Kit Car , I plan on doing some autocrosses with it.@@Greenlightfilming
So much cracking, looks like they might have skipped some steps when they built it the first time. Good work getting it up to scratch, its expensive stuff to own a race track! /Sweden
They didn't really skip any steps the first time. Asphalt deteriorates with age, and use. This is all normal wear no different than a driveway that's 13ish years old.
Especially considering some of the heavy equipment and trailers that have been regularly hauled over it.
Your intro song reminds me of "Shake hands with danger", which is a little ironic with that drag clip lol.
No kidding, haha. That's pretty fitting
Fleetwood, PA. wishing you the best.
Excellent progress !
Enjoy Watching from the Smokey Mountains in Waynesville NC.
Thanks for checking in. I should make a check in map I can update over time and show you guys over videos
Great stuff on keeping that track together. Crack sealing will help preserve the asphalt from cracking more. Not to sound like a salesman but have you looked at other crack sealing products? I’ve used a product called Mastic one by Crafco, we used it here in Canada and has held together and performed excellent on a major arterial road. Might be cost prohibitive but might want to have a look. I’m all about pavement preservation, it’s my day job
Mad respect for the time and effort here. Tracks out here are failing or are being bought out.
🤘🤘🤘
Cant wait to get back out on the track, when do you think the next race will be?
tar sealer looks awsome too
Love the updates! Cant wait till next season!
More to come this year, I'm sure
I love that Trans Am 👍
Me too
Watching from Victoria Australia
Quite a few guys checking in from Aus here. Thanks for watching!
@@Greenlightfilming anytime, love your content
Great work! Looking forward to next year!!
Thanks boss!
Buckinghamshire, England 🇬🇧
I received my sticker thanks. X
Hi there. I`m watching from the south-west of Norway 🙂
Enjoy watching your videos
Black Creek NC
Thanks for checking in!
Great work as always!! 👍👍
Thank you for checking out the video, appreciate it!
Watching in Maine, your doing a great job man! Wicked cool. Whats the dirt bowl area beside the track, looks interesting
Cool race track, enjoy!
We sure do! Thanks for watching 🤘
El Cajon California.🏁
Thanks for checking in! Appreciate the support from CA 🤘
? is chip n seal process something that could help just apply tar then put rock on top compact with roller then use street sweeper to remove loose rock austin tx
Is it good practice to seal coat over rubber that’s on the surface? Genuine question, I am no expert but I would think when the rubber lifts the coating would come off with it?
If the drag racing introduction is a hint of what’s to come, you’re going to resurrect the Apollo….. a track that hasn’t been seen in 47 years. Hope I don’t jinx it but, how can a car guy not be excited about that
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
It's crazy to think it's 930pm on Tuesday where I am, and should be 230 on Wednesday where you are.
@@Greenlightfilming just finished work & it’s beer o’clock 🍺
watching from the west coast of canada 🙂
You can't seal new Asphalt until it has cured. The heat transfer oil has to evaporate which takes a month or two. Otherwise the sealer will just peel off immediately.
We didn't seal the "new" section. You are absolutely correct.
Watching from Lone Tree, IA
Thanks for checking in, Kurt 👍👍
1/8th mile can be just as intense as the 1/4
Watching from Australia brother 🦘
Thanks for checking in 🤘🤘
Ever thought about snow drags? I imagine your property is big enough for that.
I see what you mean by sketchy.
Not sure I'd be comfortable with the crowd being that close to the strip during the start. One car sweeving from the track anc they could get hurt.
[watches literally ten more eeconds]
Oh.
That's what you meant...
Hello from Slovenia!!
First check in from Slovenia. That's really cool! Thanks for watching the racetrack series 👍👍
We have a new 330-foot street legal dragway opening here in southern California, how long is your property?
About 1,900' deep. 330' racing is interesting.
There was a 1/8th mile drag strip on this same property back in the early 1970s.
This CA track is way too short… fast cars will never want to run just 330
@Lethalgarage I agree to your point, and can already imagine the complaints lol.
@@Greenlightfilmingthe only benefit would be for the street cars.
@Lethalgarage agreed. I can also see it benefiting people getting their 60' down in the faster stuff, but at the end of the day 330' is as long as what we already have, and that's short.
Which airport?
Kurunjang Australia
Checking in from the Philippines for some reason lol
I love the project, but i aint gon lie i dont the see the true point of it since the track is too small to do some proper Racing on. Could you please explain to me?
We autocross on the track, which works really well.
I wonder how many bids he got
watching from france :)
Thanks for checking in!
Tennessee .
Thanks for checking in. Love TN. That state is on my short list for where I'd move if and when I head south.
:-) Hello from slovakia
How does this have 3.5k views and 12k likes?
And now my pavement tattoos are gone......
You'll have to make more