Indoor speedway set to open in Mokena

Accelerate Indoor Speedway

“Construction is on target for a soft opening in October,” said general manager James Galdikas.

The indoor speedway is not, in Galdikas’s words, “your father’s go-kart track.”

Accelerate is gigantic at about 75,000 square feet. The facility will have 45 adult carts and 16 junior carts. They are electric and will be powered in part from solar energy gleaned from panels on the roof.

“The carts are clean and emit no fumes,” he said…Please click here to read Bob Bong’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.