Volusia County (Florida) approves land purchase for motocross track

Awesome!  Please feel free to PM me when the next meeting occurs.  Me and the boys will be there.  I wish I had known about this one.

Awesome, great work. I thought after the Tomoka Farms Road proposal got shot down this might be dead, what a pleasant surprise.  

Great news. 

I just love Florida

Shhh!  Don't let the Californians or the New Yorkers know.  Tell them about the "special" surcharges for out of state plates.😂

Looks like they’re trying to dismiss the lawsuit the old Karen is trying to pursue. What’s even her argument against it anyway?

I'm surprised there is any land left.

Florida is awesome👍 hot as hell too😂

Just buy Hardrock.

Is Tomoka Farms Rd where the new mx track will be? If it is, what a great place for a track. Close to the Speedway, so just on the outskirts of town. That is where the start of the Alligator Enduro was for years.

That the area is a “critical” wildlife area. Crazy I never saw her name challenging any of the new hundreds of neighborhoods that bulldozed acres and acres of untouched land in the last 5 years. She’s just another kook from Miami. 

Another one of their talking points is that it shouldn’t go through because then the county is subject to liability, so I hope she never took her kids to any public playgrounds that were funded by the county. God forbid they get hurt and then the county is on the hook!

I waste too much time checking profiles on Facebook of every speaking out against the potential track, but they all moved from somewhere else and seem to forget Volusia County is the motorsports capital of Florida. 

At one time it was one of the best tracks in Florida, how is it now?

It’s closed now and for sale last I saw but it wasn’t half of what it used to be the last ten years of it operating. 

Ive heard its been downhill for awhile. I spent quite a few Januarys there in the motorhome when i was 14-15. Would ride my ass off all week, then race winter ams. Spent most of my training time on the sand track but would go have fun on the big track because of the tunnel jump lol.. 

They sold the sand track property a few years ago to a trucking company or something. 

This is my buddy and I in 2004 at the Alligator Enduro. Tomoka Rd. Starting on Row 1. We are both on ‘04 crf250x’s. I had just picked mine up a couple days before. My buddy wadded his up. The subframe was bent about as bad as I have ever seen one bent. We rode these bikes all over town during bike week. We rode them to the Dirt Track at the municipal stadium.  We even rode them to the Daytona SX and chained them to a pole outside the speedway. 

Good chance I was racing that year also….only raced it 3-5 times but in that time frame….we never got a sniff of row 1😂….I enjoyed when they went to sprint format….keeping time was too much work for this Mx”er…I remember 1 year it was almost cancelled due to wild fires, but they ran it….it was surreal…all burnt down with smoke and still small fires going…..also remember that race being just as brutal as the GNCC 2 days before ….

Yep, we raced the gncc on Tuesday,  worked on bikes Wednesday, and raced the Alligator on Thursday. I remember the fires too. The course had to be re-routed because the arrows took us straight into the fire. We were early enough that it had not been re-routed yet and we went into the fire. Once there we followed the arrows all the way through. I had not thought about that in a while. Pretty crazy. 
The next year is when they required 4 stroke headers to be wrapped. 

Couple years ago I wanted to rekindle that bike week feeling…..I raced the Gncc, 2 days later raced Daytona  Vintage/ Vet Sx….Good times👍

Was awesome when I raced there late 90’s/early 2000’s. Hasn’t been good in over 15 years, was a shitty spot for years. Lots of theft there, one guy and his daughter even got robbed at gun point during the day. 

Think it’s for Sale/or has sold now. Could have been such a awesome place again