Are you fed up with the politics at your local short track?
Is touring the tiny go-kart track at Vernon Golf Land just not cutting it for you any more?
Well, for a mere $100,000 you can experience the thrill of driving at one of the most well known road courses in America for the next 50 years.
Lime Rock Park owner Skip Barber announced plans Saturday for The Club at Lime Rock Park.
The Club at Lime Park will be limited to 300 members and will allow club members significant track time on 60 dates each year. The length of the $100,000 membership to the club is 50 years and can be passed down through family or resold through the club.
Money raised through the club will go back into improvements at the 50-year old facility in Salisbury.
According to a release from the track: “This is a way to guarantee that all improvements on the “wish list” will happen - everything from repaving the track to new bathrooms, an updated Media Center/Clubhouse and a larger and more efficient entrance, to name a few. The economics of a road racing track by itself won’t pay for this magnitude of improvements. Future owners will not have to make these capital expenditures.”
“My biggest fear is that, if the business and finances of Lime Rock Park are not sufficiently strong, the value of this beautiful piece of property could exceed its value as a racetrack and that when I am no longer around a future owner will be tempted to convert it to a golf course . . . like what happened at Bridgehampton,” Barber said.
The Club at Lime Rock Park’s first full season will be 2008, however, there are four dates reserved this Fall for qualified Club applicants to sample the facilities.
For more information visit The Club at Lime Rock.
Shawn Courchesne, 5:28 p.m.
Will it be possible to pay 2k per year for a membership
Posted by: v moreno | October 28, 2007 at 11:21 PM