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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Plans for a motorsports and entertainment park on the Alabama coast were announced Tuesday by an investor group led by Dale Earnhardt Jr., along with sister Kelley Earnhardt Elledge and brother Kerry Earnhardt in their first professional collaboration.
``Our family business is racing and it's been our business for three generations,'' said Dale Earnhardt Jr. ``Kelley, Kerry and I want to continue the family business with hopes that the next generation of Earnhardts will want to be involved in the sport.''
The project, which will be located either in the area of the University of Mobile in Mobile County or one of two sites in neighboring Baldwin County, will cover about 2,300 acres. It will include a 75,000-seat oval speedway, a road course, a drag strip and a dirt track, as well as entertainment venues.
Kerry Earnhardt is also providing input on a freshwater lake for possible national fishing events at the site, which is to be named ``Alabama Motorsports Park: A Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway.'' The project is to be completed in the fall of 2009.
``Growing up, the race track was our playground on the weekends,'' said Earnhardt Jr., ``so all of us look forward to being involved on the ground level of this project and being a part of the design team.''