Owners plan to sell Central Missouri
Central Missouri Speedway, which this season hosts five Late Model touring events, will be up for sale for $1 million at season’s end with Earl and Susan Walls stepping back from operating the track after 31 years, the Warrensburg, Mo., track announced.
“My wife and I recently bought a travel camper, and we are going to put it to use,” said Earl Walls, who made the announcement to drivers before Saturday’s event. “My sons and grandkids all have lives of their own and are very busy with their own careers, so it is time to sell the facility and all that goes with it. We will sell it as a racetrack or for development, but after the final event of the year, we will no longer run CMS as we know it today.”
Sale of the the 30-acre property will include a lake and diesel water pump, Pub 13 Bar and Restaurant, two concession stand buildings, pit office building along with a technical inspection and equipment storage outbuilding. Racing equipment: message board, timing system with 130 transponders, lighting and scale system. Track preparation equipment included: grader, two water trucks, two tractors, box blade, tiller, sheep’s foot and two wreckers.
The track’s remaining schedule includes 4 State Dirt Late Model Series events on June 21 and Aug. 30-31 and a Nutrien Ag Solutions POWRi Revival Super Dirt Series event on July 19. Dylan Sillman won May 3’s Malvern Bank West Super Late Model Series event on May 3. The season finale is Sept. 13.
Central Missouri hasn’t run a season-long Late Model division since 2011. An attempt to run five regular-season events last year didn’t draw enough entrants to continue.
Call (816) 229-1338 for serious inquiries about purchasing the track. — Sam Stoecklin
