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Calhoun County Speedway |
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Name: Calhoun County Speedway Street: S Royston Road
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City: Springport County: Calhoun Zip:
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| Status: Open |
| Web Address: http://www.calhouncountyspeedway.com/ |
| Notes: AKA Springport Speedway, Michigan Ideal Speedway |
| Number of visits to this page since February 23, 2007: 25205 |
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Chris Fobbe: The ownership of the track has fallen back to the group that owned it previously, the management of the Spartan Speedway. The name has been changed back to Springport Motor Speedway, and the http://www.springportmotorspeedway.com website is back up, though only a classified ad.
Dennis ONeil: The name has been changed to Mid-Michigan Speedway. It was changed from Calhoun County Speedway to Springport Motor Speedway in 2006. It carried that name until November 2008 when Jerry Rabbers changed it to Mid-Michigan Speedway.
The track is still open and is a beautiful setting and facility. However it is struggling to support itself. Low car and fan counts have plagued this season.
corey: midmichiganspeedway.com is the new name
Sean Fitzgerald: Youtube has some cool video of this place, if you look for springsport speedway.
Sean Fitzgerald: Ya know I was there once, but from the photo the cars on the track make the place look huge. Nice track, seems to have an outside groove down the stretches, that puts the cars right up against the wall. But it only seemed to be one groove, Maybe if enough cars show up and start wearing the place in that will change. Nice place anyway.
Randy: On Sept 27th, Springport (Calhoun) Speedway is having an invitational race. ALL CLASSES...racing starts at 7:00pm...check out there website for details, but this sounds very interesting, not your normal heat/feature races.
Sean Fitzgerald: Turn this place into a high banked half mile. Race track Operator should take a look at this place!
Gusey Racing: It appears that it will be open in 2007. www.springportmotorspeedway.com
Larry Heyns: Michigan Ideal Speedway is located north of Marshall. I never saw it, but the track was known for its well landscaped grounds. Perry Younce was killed in a midget race at Ideal in 1996. He was a rising star in open-wheel racing.
Bill Speck: That is too bad a friend of mine said he was at the speedway in Flint last week and there wasnt much of a crowd there. It looks like all the tracks are going down the tube.
Ron Gross/Michigandriveins.com: This track closed for the season on August 5th, 2006. Apparently there wasnt enough fans showing up. No idea if it will reopen next year, as its for sale. Its name has been Springport Motor Speedway for a least 2-3 years I believe. The website is springportmotorspeedway.com
Sean Fitzgerald: Went to this place saturday night. Very friendly people. Seemed to be a pretty much a one groove track, but passing was possible. Nicely run . Great fields of Modifieds, very nice feel to the place. Definitely worth a return trip.
Marty Blume: The track was originally opened as Michigan Ideal Speedway in the fall of 1989. It was often refered to as little MIS. When it was sold, the name was changed to Springport Speedway. When Paul Zimmerman and Jim Leasure bought the track, they changed the name to Calhoun County Speedway. They have now changed the name to Springport Motor Speedway. For what ever reason, the track has been plagued by poor attendance over the years.
Marty Blume: The track was built by Ralph Densmore who was a former racer back in the 50s at the old Jackson Motor Speedway. He owned a local oil company. He built the track because he felt the was a huge void in the Jackson area for auto racing ever since the Jackson Motor Speedway had closed back in the 70s. He couldnt buy Jackson and reopen it, so he built a new track in Springport. The track originally had much higher banks but they kept washing out with the rains and he finally settled on the present 18 degree turns and back straight. The front straight has a banking of 8 degrees. He also built a pulling pad in the infeild with the hopes of hosting tractor pulls but after 1 or 2 events, he gave up on that idea.
Sean Fitzgerald: Was this track in fact called Michigan Ideal at one point? I heard it was just built by a farmer who wanted a track.
Chris Fobbe: For the 2006 Season, they are changing the name of the track to the Springport Motor Speedway.
Chris Fobbe: As of May 8 2004 the Calhoun County (formerly Springport) Speedway re-opened under the management of Paul Zimmerman and Jim Leasure of the Spartan Speedway. The Speedway runs on Saturday everyweek and one Sunday show a month
Web - 4/14/2003 Springport Township and Calhoun County Speedway are still in negotiations regarding the permits required to begin racing at the facility. As a result, the opening date for racing cannot be set. Please check back on this website for any updates.
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| TERRY BOGUSZ JR AT SPRINGPORT |  |
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| TERRY BOGUSZ JR AT SPRINGPORT |  |
| BILLY SIMMONS 2000 LEGEND GREAT LAKES NATIONAL RACE |  |
| BRIAN NORTON |  |
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