The past twelve months have been a period of rebirth for the National Corvette Museum. It goes without saying that the sinkhole incident that started in February 2014 was an event that will go down in infamy, having wrecked eight Corvettes and shaken the confidence in the building’s foundations in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

The sketched look of the new building. Photo: Hemmings Blog

But the leadership and staff have picked up and dusted themselves off, and made significant inroads towards restoration. But more than simply filling the empty hole and calling it a day, the museum’s higher-ups have decided it’s time to make some adjustments elsewhere as well.

Case in point: the adjacent Motorsports Park. With its massive expanse of asphalt that can split into multiple courses (the longest of which, the Grand Full Course, is 3.15 miles), the track is a hotspot of rubber-burning activity that was designed to resemble the famous LeMans-hosting Circuit de la Sarthe in France.

Photo: NCM Motorsports Park

Now comes the news that the Motorsports Park will be receiving a sizable upgrade in the form of a giant building, intended to hold cars and entertain guests. The structure will house 22 garages (including four oversized units), as well as bathrooms, showers, and even food and drink vendors.

Along with the entry road that leads to it, the park will be named after Corvette motorsports star Kimberlee A. Fast. She was a racer who excited fans for a brief but bright time from 1997 to 2010, and considered the NCM like a second home.

The schedule for construction is set to begin in February and end in April, making this a fairly quick job for the kind of work that’s expected. In the meantime, sponsors and advertisers have been given the green light to contribute to the project. We’ll be waiting with bated breath for the day they cut the ribbon.

Photo: NCM Motorsports Park