The owner of a northeast Ohio racetrack says he has to reopen this year or his state's coronavirus restrictions will drive him out of business
Summit Motorsports Park owner Bill Bader Jr. vowed to start holding events with or without government permission, in a Facebook live post earlier this week.Protests are popping up across the US over stay-at-home restrictions"I'm not asking, I'm opening," he said in the video and said that he thought that business closures were an overreaction.
"We have a half a million visitors that visit the track annually, and I'm not under any delusions that I'm going to set attendance records this year," he said."What we do is, we look at events that are manageable, where we can social distance."He said the track had about 100 events on the calendar this year, but he's now hoping to run 18 to 20 smaller ones.Bader plans to release the track schedule next week.
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