New Jersey Motorsports Park principals Harvey Siegel (left) and Lee Brahin (right) with veteran motorsports journalist Chris Economaki at the park’s groundbreaking. Photo by A.B. ShumanMILLVILLE, N.J. – New Jersey Motorsports Park, a $150 million undertaking adjacent to the airport in this south Jersey town, staged its’ ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday next to the area where preparation of one of its two road circuits has been under way for several months. The park is the creation of a group led by Virginia International Raceway owner Harvey Siegel, and when completed will be a step up from the high standard set by VIR, considered the leader in the “new wave” of sports-car country clubs. When complete the facility will include the two road circuits, a three-quarter-mile tri-oval, a karting track plus an off-road course. Also included in the plan are condominiums, hotels, a tennis center, skid pad, enclosed garages, a driver training center and a conference center. The two road courses are named Thunderbolt and Lightning, after the P47 fighter planes based at the Millville airport during World War II. Lightning will be the first to open, scheduled for June next year, and will be 1.95 miles in length. Thunderbolt, set to open 30 days after Lightning, will be 2.3 miles per lap. At present there are no plans to combine the two. In a bow toward the dean of American racing writers, the media center will be named after Chris Economaki, the 86-year-old newspaper, radio and TV personality whose career goes back to the mid-1930s and the Vanderbilt Cup races. 
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