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Article: BIR will be in different hands for NHRA event; Jed Copham, the new owner of Brainerd International Raceway, is hoping to expand the track's pro schedule.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 8, 2006
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Byline: Patrick Reusse; Staff Writer
Jed Copham has this opinion on what car racing has become in the 21st Century: "In general, it's not something you happen to go watch, but something you do."
To demonstrate this theory, Copham, 33, spent three years of his life attempting to build a racing facility that would have the same concept as a country club. You would keep a car there and play when you had the urge.
The first attempt took place in Pine County, on a site west of Interstate Hwy. 35 near Henriette, Minn. He was going to call his facility Pine Run. An opposition group formed and managed to kill the deal.
Copham next tried a 750-acre site in Isanti ...