How about sections of the road by the current food trucks (old entry to the oval) and the road that goes south at the ticket booth along the front straight (return road from Thompson 3)? We need more!
The quarter mile oval within the 5/8ths mile oval was used until 1971. The last usage was by second divisions (hobby stocks) in the weekly racing program.
thanks for the info. references that cover this are scarce and uncertain. i'll update the description to the video. the video itself may not get updated for a while; youtube does not provide a good way to do that.
"Not entirely safe" is definitely how I'd describe a lot of relatively unchanged race tracks still in operating. I wasn't even aware of the second track's existence, so I guess I learned something new. I'd be interested to see how you get information of tracks that have pretty much no information available on, like Hilltop Raceway in Louisiana. Supposedly somebody wrote a book with some of these tracks, so the info must be out there somewhere.
Alan Brown collected a lot for _America's Speedways_; it tends to be very sketchy but has pointed me at a lot of things that have rewarded further research. there are actually more than a few books, but where as Brown is comprehensive but sketchy, the other books tend to be more detailed on small numbers of tracks. what i've also found is often there are local historians who do a lot with tracks in an area; there is a strong such community in northeastern new york and on into vermont. they can help and often they put their research on line. in terms of locations, there are various sources for historic aerial imagery and USGS topo maps which make a difference if you're mapping (which is where i'm coming from.) the glen has been pretty easy to do; Thompson was a bit more work. right now i'm trying to map out riverside, and after that i'm looking at sebring and daytona (road courses) as they've been both been reconfigured a time or three. and then somewhere in there i'm going to experiment with some oval oriented videos.
@@ghosttracks once I find out a track existed in an area, I can usually find it if I want. But once I map it, I'm usually left with little information about said track, unless it's from the west or northeast. A lot of deep south tracks had very little exposure I suppose. There was an old dirt oval (I'm mostly focused on asphalt tracks) in a town not far from me, but the only mention of it was on three different websites with barely information on it. I believe I've found it, but I'm having to ask locals about it. I'm honestly shocked that stuff like this isn't just out there somewhere already. Not surprising for a tiny dirt oval, but how an entire road course like Hilltop manages to have literally nothing easily accessible online is beyond me. Hell, it's still there, albeit as a campground. But there's no photos of what the track looks like today or anything. I guess if locals wanted to document things, that'd be one thing. But I feel like documenting the history of every race track in America would take a ton of people, especially ones that are basically unknown.
@@ghosttracks oh yeah, I definitely don't map out individual layouts because I'm mostly focused on finding the tracks themselves and mapping whatever the main layout was and any asphalt ovals or stuff it had with it. I decided to limit it to just road courses, asphalt ovals, airport circuits, and street circuits. Otherwise I'd never actually be done. I'd love if people became interested in this stuff and kinda did something like that, so we as the car community could combine all that info into a giant source of information.
