A newly adopted noise curfew in Catoosa County was recently tested by Boyd’s Speedway, and at least one resident in the area wants to make sure the owners follow the new rules.
In December, the Catoosa County Commission voted to amend the county’s motor speedway ordinance, allowing those businesses to extend activities until midnight instead of from 11:30 p.m.
The previous ordinance allowed speedways to go over the 11:30 p.m. limit in “certain scenarios” up to midnight. The new version extends that latest curfew to 12:30 a.m.
Around the same time last year, Chattanooga businessman Emerson Russell purchased Boyd’s Speedway in Ringgold.
Russell, who raced stock cars himself on the quarter-mile oval dirt track in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, previously told the Times Free Press he has always been interested in racing and hopes to upgrade and expand racing at the 67-year-old facility.