Understandably the “Norwalk Experience” Bill Bader Jr. recently lived through is not the same
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experience race fans clamor for at the palatial facility.
In the days prior to the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, the
12th stop on the Full Throttle Tour, the Baders made some tough
decisions.
“This week was probably one of the toughest of my career,” the
second-generation track owner said. “We decided on Friday, late
afternoon and early afternoon … the week before the national event that
the best way to fix the track is to tear it out and start all over.”
Water seepage forced Bader and his team to create a new drainage system
and rip out the existing asphalt and repave from the eighth-mile to the
quarter-mile of the drag strip.