Rodger Brogdon has a tough time believing when he races this weekend at Houston Raceway Park; it will be his last time competing at the facility located in Baytown, Texas, just outside of Houston.
Brogdon, who lives in nearby Tomball, is one of several Houston-area racers saying goodbye to his hometown track, hosting its final NHRA national event.
"It's terrible. Anybody in this area been going there for all these years, it's going to be a bad deal, but it's out of our control," Brogdon said. "There's so many people that ask me, "What are you going to do? Where are you going to race? I mean, is anybody else building a new track?" All kinds of questions like that constantly, but you can't prepare for something like that. I tell them all the same; I haven't heard of any new tracks, any quarter-mile tracks, at least, getting built."