Leaders of the nonprofit Save Our Race Track will give an informational update to O'ahu racers tonight on plans for a temporary racetrack on a 35-acre Kalaeloa parcel owned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Makakilo Elementary School.

SORT has a month-to-month revocable lease with DHHL for the temporary track on what's known as Parcel 24, on the 'Ewa side of the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station. The property at the corner of Tripoli Street and Coral Sea Road is populated by haole koa, kiawe and other vegetation.

SORT officials had expected to have a track in place by the end of summer 2007 but ran into delays. SORT chairwoman Evelyn Souza, in a notice sent to racers telling them about tonight's meeting, indicated the organization intends to have a facility up and running sometime this year.

The first phase is expected to consist of an oval dirt track for stock cars, dirt bikes and ATVs. It may also include a mud bog.

The second phase, which would come later, is expected to include asphalt venues that would accommodate drifters and Sports Car Club of America racing.

O'ahu's racers have been without a racetrack since spring 2006, when Hawai'i Raceway Park closed.

SORT and other organizations continue to lobby for the state or city to purchase the raceway park property from a private developer and preserve it as a raceway.