The owner wants to sell the drag strip, a land developer want's to buy it. If someone cares so much about it they should buy and run the damn thing. The owner could be a prick and just shut the thing down and sit on it, sell it later and no one could do a damn thing. It is a private buisness, they can do what they want, it's not a social issue for the public to get involved in.
If the local government was squeezing the dragstrip owner out of buisness i'm all for raising hell about it. But what a private person does with thier own property is thier buisness and instead of peing pissed about it, the people should be happy they had a drag strip there in the first place.
no, I wouldn't. Instead of trying to make the owner to do something against thier will and if i cared enough, i would find a way to find somone to buy it for the same price as the land developer.
It's exactly like a mom and pop place closing, the owners want out of the buisness and move on to something else, you can either bitch thike the hippies, or find a adequate alternative for the current owner to choose from.