OK, let's get some things straight from the very beginning: 

I am not a NASCAR fan, nor Indy car, nor Formula One, nor kart, nor open wheel racing fan.  In fact, just about anything that involves someone getting into a motorized vehicle going more than 150 miles an hour and making only left turns  for 6 or 8 hours, I find  borrrrrrrrring.... (unless it is air races, that is--I just love those old warbirds going around the pylons).

Neither am I a fan of Washington governor Christine Gregoire, who has been indicated by some as allegedly making some remarks about NASCAR fans being "trailer trash."  As far as I can tell, she did not.  She is not in favor of the proposed track being built near Bremerton, but has proposed an alternate site near Centralia WA, where there was recently a major employer closed down, and people in need of the jobs such a project would bring.

However, there are a number of OTHER reasons why Bremerton would not be a good fit for this project, and I'll discuss them just a bit:

Item the first:  Environmental issues:  All of Washington is an environmentally difficult area to get certain things done.  You practically have to announce your plans and do an environmental impact study if you are going to get a cold and sneeze.  Plans have to be open to public comment for anywhere from three to six months or more during the study period, and there are lots of folks here that like to comment on such things. 

In Kitsap County, where the proposed track would be built, near  Bremerton National Airport, you cannot even have a fire in your home fireplace for more than half of the winter most years because of concerns for air pollution.  If fireplaces get burn banned, vehicles which are putting out quite a bit of hydrocarbon vapors, even when they AREN'T on fire, stand a fair chance of meeting the same fate.

Item the second:  Getting to the site of the proposed track:  No freeways.  None, zero, zip, zilch, nada.  You can, of course, take the freeway to Seattle, but then you have to get on a ferry and ride for an hour to make it to Bremerton, and that ain't cheap by any stretch of the imagination.  (If you walk onto the ferry by foot, it is $6.50 one way; a car, motorcycle, bike or any vehicle under 20 feet is $11.50 for the car and driver, plus $6.50 each for all passengers; for those nice 40' motorhomes/RV's $45.00 for the vehicle, plus $6.50 for each occupant; and so on with prices increasing incrementally for size of the vehicle).

The closest thing there is to a "superhighway" Bremerton side is State Highway 303, which, at it's widest is four lanes, but mostly two. It is possible to come up overland from Tacoma, but still no freeways, and there is a bridge to navigate across Tacoma Narrows, and that bridge will become a toll bridge when the new one opens this summer.

Item the third:  Places for people to stay who come to see the races:   If you have one of those RV's, there is only one RV park in the area (that's right, I said one) and that is at the fairgrounds.  If the races happen to be going on at the same time as the County Fair or some other event at the fairgrounds....well, you might just basically be out of luck.  And there are only 7 motels (one of which might be considered to be fairly good sized).

Item the fourth:  Emergency care:  The nearest trauma center is across the water in Seattle.  It is a one hour ambulance ride on the ferry to get there, or a very expensive helicopter ride.  There is one hospital in town, with a stabilize and transport Emergency Department for major incidents.

Item the fifth:  Bremerton is a Navy town.  The Navy tends to get a bit tense about security in wartime, when there are lots of people coming into town who aren't normally there.  They get even more tense when they get close to their submarine base about ten miles away at Bangor, where they keep a number of submaries and the nuclear missles that they carry under tremendous security.

Finally, item the sixth, and probably most important:  Last November, the people of Washington State passed a referendum that said no more public money for the funding of facilities for professional sports. 

The NASCAR folks were here last week to talk with the Legislature about public funding for the proposed track.  I'm pretty sure that they got told the same thing that the new owners of the Oklahoma City Supersonics of the NBA got told when they were there the week before.  If you aren't planning to fund it privately, forget it.  Actually, the Soncis stand a LITTLE bit of a better chance than anyone planning to build in Kitsap County, because there is a hotel and rental car tax that the hoteliers and rental car companies are willing to extend for a couple of additional years to help out with the funding of a new arena, but that is help out, not totally finance.

I'm not saying this just because I may be moving to Bremerton in about a month, either.  I am just being pragmatic. NASCAR might want to look into something in Eastern Washington near Spokane, perhaps, since that is more of a desert area and somewhat less environmentally sticky.