International Speedway Corp. President Lesa France Kennedy says the company thinks metropolitan New York is a “prime location” for a major motorsports facility, but ISC has decided the site it had picked won’t work.

ISC, which owns several speedways used for NASCAR races such as in Daytona Beach, Fla., Talladega, Ala., and Darlington, S.C., announced Monday it will discontinue its effort to develop a track on 676 acres it owns on Staten Island.

The company said it “will explore alternative strategies” for the land.

In a news release, ISC cited “the inability to secure the critical local support that is necessary to secure the required land-use change approvals for a speedway development.”

ISC wanted to build a three-quarter-mile track with about 80,000 seats on the site. But an April public hearing on the plans was called off after an hour when a borough council member got into a physical confrontation with a supporter of the plans.