HAGERSVILLE, ON – Contrary to popular belief the track most recently known as Cayuga 2000 Speedway has been sold to a consortium of prominent Golden Horseshoe business personalities. Recent reports had the track being sold to a group of Toronto investors, but those reports are untrue.
The track was sold to the Golden Horseshoe group on Friday, May 16th, and they in their wisdom have set the wheels in motion to bring the name back by which the facility was known during the glory years of the Bob Slack family— Cayuga International Speedway.
With the sale final, negotiations have now been finalized to run one last CASCAR® (Canadian Association for Stock Car Racing) race before major renovations to the track begin to occur. The CASCAR® Labour Day Classic featuring the CASCAR® Super and Sportsman Series which is the premier race event of their season will be run on Saturday September 2 and Sunday September 3 on the newly revived Cayuga International Speedway. The CASCAR® Super Series event on this final weekend of racing prior to construction will be televised over Rogers Sportsnet.
During the heady days with the Slack family, the speedway was considered the "Canada's Crown Jewel" of Canadian Stock Car racing on the fastest 5/8-mile paved oval racetrack in Canada. This once proud crown jewel struggled in recent times to retain its lustre, but that now is a part of history.
The purchasers have had a life-long passion for the sport of automotive racing particularly CASCAR® and NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). CASCAR® has been the leading touring series in Canada since its beginnings in 1981.
During the days when the Slack family owned and operated Cayuga International Speedway their professionalism in its operation established the standard by which other owners in the Southern Ontario region operated.
Countless thousands of spectators thrilled to the sound of the push rod V-8's on the 5/8-mile high-banked Cayuga International Speedway oval at Nelles Corners, Ontario. Over the decades the facility attracted many of the top names in motor sport racing such as Richard Petty, Al Unser, Kale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt, the Allisons--Bobby, Davey, Donnie and Kenny and Benny Parsons.
Don Biederman, who passed away in 1999 and was inducted into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame, was the perennial archrival to the widely known Jr. Hanley. Bob Senneker also drove down Cayuga’s victory lane many times. He captured first place in the premier running of the Maple Leaf 250 in 1971, and the 1985 Molson Export 300, an Automotive Service Association (ASA) fall classic. Prior to the ASA’s arrival at Cayuga, the season ending event for Super Late Models was always the Maple Leaf 250.
Immediate plans for the facility are being formulated. Those plans will be clarified and demonstrated in the near future at a media conference and Open House at the Cayuga speed sport facility.
- From Cayuga Int'l Speedway
