At 11:26 p.m. Sunday night, December 28, Donald Phillips, owner and operator of the 411 Raceway on Maryville Highway received a call from his alarm company that something was amiss at the track.
“I ran down there as quick as I could safely make it,” Phillips told The Herald. What he found was a mess.
Vandals had broken a window on the tower and destroyed a couple of thousand dollars worth of equipment, Phillips said. The camper on the site was also extensively damaged.
It’s not the first time the site has been vandalized, according to Phillips. “It happened last year also. The locks were cut off of the gate. In fact, someone had taken a set of boltcutters and cut every lock in the place off.”
Phillips thinks the damage was the work of kids. “There wasn’t anything missing but a few candy bars,” he said.
He is offering a reward of $1,000 for anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the parties responsible for the damage.
“It wasn’t too bad before,” Phillips told The Herald, speaking about the vandalism the site has suffered in the past. “But it seems like since I bought the track outright, it’s gotten worse than when I just rented it. I just want to be a good neighbor.”
Anyone with information is urged to call Aaron Smith with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department at 453-4668.

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