New Track Passes Test Run at Tri-City Speedway

PONTOON BEACH, Ill. -- For the last few months, dirt has been moving and a new track has recently emerged from the gumbo clay at Tri-City Speedway. Gone is the half-mile circuit, and the quarter-mile is nowhere to be seen. In their place is a new high banked 3/8 mile track that has drivers anticipating the start of a new season like never before.

Last Friday, track owner Kevin Gundaker, along with his long-time friend Eric Jacobsen took the new track for a test drive. Eric had stopped off on his way to Kentucky Lake Speedway to check out the changes, and volunteered his #5 Late Model to be the first car on the new track.

Kevin and Eric both took turns, and, according to Kevin's wife, Tammy, it was "awsome and fast."

Below are a few photos from this momentous event, all taken by Tammie Easley of the Tri-City staff.