The Friday night race programs on the speedway are not returning this year.
Tharpe said the shut down last season was necessary to address some problems and the weather wasn’t cooperating at the time.
The local racing destination has been operating since the mid 1950s, Tharpe said.
A full season is scheduled for the drag strip, but Kil-Kare has “stepped away from NASCAR,” Tharpe said.
“We kind of felt it was better to take a couple steps back, address … what we needed to do internally to get the company pointed in the right direction and kind of move forward and have a great future ahead of us,” Tharpe said.
The speedway has struggled with car counts and smaller crowds in recent seasons. The dragstrip underwent a major renovation after the 2012 season that included safety upgrades and constructing the quarter-mile entirely out of concrete. Most grassroots dragstrip surfaces are asphalt or a combination of concrete and asphalt, making Kil-Kare’s concrete strip a popular draw for local and regional racing enthusiasts.
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