After years of being for sale, Brushcreek Motorsports Complex has changed hands. Cold Rolled Investments, LLC, owned by sprint car racers Lee Haskins and Nathan Skaggs, bought the Peebles, Ohio, dirt track from the Partin family.
“Why did we sell it? It took up every weekend of our family’s summers for 23 years,” said Steve Partin, who promoted the track in recent years. “I’m 26 and it’s all I can remember for summer weekends. My dad [Tom] and my mom, Melissa, wanted their weekends to be freed up. They want to slow down a bit.”
Haskins, a former motocross racer, competed in his first-ever oval-track race in a Legends car at Brushcreek in 2016.
“I had so much fun there,” Haskins, of Chillicothe, Ohio, said. “I did not want to see another track sold for real estate development or to someone who doesn’t appreciate what it is to so many people.”
Haskins has plans to tweak the oval on the 86-acre grounds.
“My first order of business will be to rework the track,” said Haskins. “The first track Tom Partin built was a triangle. Then he shortened it and made an oval. This left a big, voided space — there is a 100-yard difference between the old fence and the newer track. We’ll bring the old wall and fence up to the current wall and fence, enabling us to expand the pit area and bring it closer to the track. In addition, we will rework the drainage, put limestone in where it is needed — all to make it more enjoyable for drivers. The LED lighting is already excellent.”
Outgoing promoter Steve Partin, through his ANT Management, Inc., will still put on three events at track his family created. The first night features fireworks and three classes (modifieds, Legend cars and Crown Vics) on Wednesday, July 3. The following Sunday, July 7, will be the $10,000-to-win 4B4EVER 40, a race in memory of dirt late model legend Jackie Boggs. Lastly, Partin will promote a $6,000-to-win enduro on Saturday, August 31.
“We have a good relationship with Lee,” Partin said. “He’ll own the track, we’ll lease it from him for our four events, and we’ll be there to help him whenever and wherever we can. We’re not going to leave him high and dry. Expect the same cast of characters there.”
The remainder of the 2024 schedule for the Brushcreek Motorsports Complex will be released in coming weeks.
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
