Marty Moates, 1980 Carlsbad USGP
This is a press release from Road 2 Recovery…
Carlsbad, CA (June 19, 2015) – A project almost five years in the making is about to come to reality with the Road 2 Recovery (R2R) Foundation joining a group of passionate Carlsbad Raceway fans and legend athletes to build a permanent, interpretive monument overlooking the site of the famed Carlsbad Raceway. R2R will administer all the private and corporate donations to the project along with the necessary 501(c)(3) charitable donation paperwork to those donors. The foundation will retain a small fee for this work and share in any remaining donations once the monument is constructed and installed. The goal is to unveil the monument on Sunday morning after one of the two San Diego Monster Energy Supercross events in 2016.
Carlsbad Superbikers
“Our foundation is always looking for new and innovative ways to promote our mission and raise funds for injured motocross/supercross and action sports athletes. This was a natural for us,” said Anita Button, Operations Director at Road 2 Recovery “We will be able to help provide a unique, historical experience for the motorcycle and action sports community while raising additional awareness for our cause.”
The monument project was conceived almost five years ago after the release of the film The Carlsbad USGP: 1980 by Pipeline Digital Media. Filmmaker, Todd Huffman, David Moates (brother of the Carlsbad USGP’s first American winner in 1980, Marty Moates) and Scott Cox of Resmarket got together to discuss initial plans for the monument with the City of Carlsbad who embraced the project. Now is the time to get it completed.
Carlsbad Dragstrip
“Wow! Having the Road 2 Recovery Foundation join in with us is really special,” said Todd Huffman, director and producer at Pipeline Digital Media (PDM). “It will really give this project a shot in the arm to get completed in 2016.”
Carlsbad Skatepark
“As a Carlsbad local, having a monument like this to share racing and other memories from the raceway with my family and friends is pretty damn cool,” said David Moates. “My brother Marty would be stoked that it is happening.”
The goal is to raise an estimated $50,000 for design and construction of the monument to be completed by Feb of 2016. A professional environmental design firm will be engaged to design the monument and highlight all of the raceway’s features like the drag strip, motocross track, skateboard park and road course. A short-term need of approximately $15,000 is needed to present initial conceptual drawings to the City of Carlsbad by August 3, 2015.
Carlsbad Dragstrip
Donations can be made online by visiting:
r2r.webconnex.com/carlsbadraceway
Or send checks to:
Road 2 Recovery Foundation
1042 N El Camino Real
Suite B-350
Encinitas, CA 92024
In note field: Carlsbad Raceway Monument
About the Carlsbad Raceway:
Since 1964 when partners Larry Grismer and JS “Sandy” Belond created the Carlsbad Raceway, it served as one of the first action-sports playgrounds and site of one of the biggest spectacles in sports on TV in the United States Grand Prix of Motocross on ABC’s Wide World of Sports. It first hosted a drag strip, then road course and motocross track, and finally a skateboard park in 1976. The raceway literally put the City of Carlsbad on the map with the thousands upon thousands who dragged, rode, and skated there every week, plus the millions upon millions who watched the spectacles of the USGP and Superbikers once a year on ABC. All people who enjoy action sports today owe a small debt to those pioneers of dirt, asphalt and vertical concrete who called the Carlsbad Raceway home. Sadly, in 2004 the last moto was ridden there and the track was turned under to make room for development and progress, leaving only memories.
About the Road 2 Recovery Foundation:
The Road 2 Recovery Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that was founded in 2000, and is dedicated to helping AMA-licensed Professional Motocross/Supercross riders and Action Sports Athletes with financial assistance if they sustain career-ending injuries as well as providing motivational, emotional, and spiritual support to these individuals and their families. Federal Tax ID # 86-0996104