Abandoned NASCAR Stadium that nature is reclaiming - Motordrome Speedway 

I used to film the weekly races there from 2005 to 2011 from the platform above the announcer's booth that you access from that ladder and roof hatch in there. Odd seeing the place in that state but it still brings back good memories of all the Friday nights spent there. The videos I filmed there are on my channel if you wanted to see the place before it closed.

As a Nascar fan, it's sad to see these tracks are not being used anymore.

I raced on and off for 10 years at this great track. It breaks my heart to see it in this condition

It's honestly mind blowing how everything was just left behind! I recently bought a race track that was out of operation for a couple of years. I'm so excited to try to bring it back to life.

I’m from Pennsylvania and I remember the racetrack at Dorney park for stock cars , and the Nazareth speedway. Both gone,many good times I had at both. I’ve never been to this one. Thank you !

Wow, the memories I have of this place. Spent many Friday nights here with my father. I even remember seeing a car hop the infield wall on the backstretch and take out someone's personal vehicle. So sad to hear it is no more.

i know an old man who used to race there, bob stanford, he raved about the place. PA needs its own cletus mcfarland to save this place.

I agree. Great explore. As a Nascar fan and a self confessed car nut, I loved seeing the old memorabilia like tickets, stickers, banners, etc. Thanks for sharing.

Great explore! In amazing condition with minimal amount of vandalism. People just left it alone after it closed down.

I live not to far away from here I was just there a few weeks ago it went up for sale and sadly it’s starting to be demolished the grand stands aren’t there anymore but the buildings are.

10s of thousands of dollars of racing memorabilia there. Used to go there in the 70's to see my favorite drivers like LJ Dennis, Blackie Watt, and Russ Redshaw.

Thank You for entertaining us through 2021. Like last year ,this year couldn't have been that much easier and I for one appriciate your dedication. Have a great festive season and Happy New Year Regards, Dafydd

This place was remarkable as far as an abandoned location. Nature reclaiming its own inside our man made venues. If you guys enjoyed the video, leave a thumbs up! This was definetly one of my favorite explores from this year. I'm wishing all that view a Happy New Year's! As we aren't slowing down this year ! Thanks for watching !

i may or may not have taken a few souvenirs when i went such as a few trophies, the fiber glass cowl induction hood and some banners and some flags

Excellent photography ! Ethan you said exactly what I was thinking how much you loved how nature has taken over. It is beautiful. This was a very good video. Have a great New Year and Chris as well !

Big fan here! Been watching your videos for a while and finally decided to subscribe. I live in Connecticut so a lot of the places you go to I'm familiar with. Keep up the good work!

Very cool, I love your videos man. For some reason it's so cool to see the old abandoned properties. Almost like it's a weird gateway to the past I guess.

Happy New Year I hope you had a Wonderful Xmas and I can't wait to see what 2022 has in store for you ... Keep the explorations coming love them ... Much love from CT

I have many good memories from the days of dirt. I never took my ride out when they had that option. I did do PID and Sharron a few times.. Good times!

The opening crash was Chuck Kennedy, I was there that night. And where you opened your video, up in the back stretch VIP box, that was rented by Rose Lumber. I used to watch races every weekend from that very spot with my mom and dad, with the Rose family. Very awesome people... I miss those days so much....

Enjoyed it! Thanks for bringing us along.

That was a pretty cool explore. Although I don't really watch NASCAR it is still really neat to see these places after they close down, especially cool things like that old Gatorade sign.

I remember going there as a kid from 2005 to even 2014. It looks so different now. I have a lot of good memories there. Thats where i was able to watch local racing as i fell in love with it. Thank you for making this video

Great music mix to the video. Thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Thanks.

Cool video :D Thank You! And damn. you nailed it with the background music/'soundtrack'!! Really good choise IMO ♥♥♥

Thanks for the video. Only was there once during its pavement days. I was helping local E-Mod driver John "Peanuts" Yunstince. Took a night off from wrenching on sprint cars. My dad was a sprint car fan and I took him to an All-Star Circuit of Champions race when I was 16 back in 83 or 84. Saw an ad in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that they were running there and that really started a great journey. I think Kenny Jacobs won the race in the 4J. Got to see Keith Kaufman in the big block powered Hamilton 77, Dave Blaney in the 10 car, Steve Smith Sr, Joe Saldana etc.. Got to see the guy I would work for on his sprint car some 7 years later, John Stickley in the L-7 sprint car. I worked on his car in the western Pa. circuit from 1990 to roughly 2005. Lots of great memories. That one night taking my dad to the race started something special. Thank again.

This is the reason I go to you tube. Just for the videos you post. I love the history. Please keep posting.

Very cool video. I wish I would have been their for a race or two. Thanks for all the videos in 2021. Happy new year

Like the "hop-over-the-counter" transitions. Nice work; keep it up!

👍🏻 your content is so dope! I’m so glad I found your channel!! keep em coming!!

Cleatus needs to buy this the freedom factory 2.0 lol

😪really sad - such a great track too. Thank you for this though. I spent a lot of hours here/there. Video is well done - Thank you.

I am from Canada and went to this speedway in 2012. So sad to see it has been shut down. The racing was awsome and very very fast. Great Video from you guys. Wayne from Canada

You are such a breath of fresh air to watch . True talent and passion. Your smile and excitement for what you do is so contagious. Never stop !!!!!

Great explore, can't belive all that stuff is still inside. Definitely would love to see this place myself

I remember when it was dirt! I remember when Charlie Swartz raced there along with John Holt, Lynn Geisler, Mark Banal, John Johnson, Bucky Johnson, and ....

Bro this i say was another great video I really enjoyed watching this one the best I liked all the other ones But this one is the best I helped a neighbor buddy of mine in gocart racing for a number of years Also went to demolition derby and races cars racing Never One like this one perfect one to finish my day Loved it bro Happy New year to you Fireman 🔥🔥🔥

You know. NASCAR drivers and you have something in common. Giant, brass balls. It takes alotta guts to drive that fast. And it takes alotta guts to explore where you explore. Lotta balls. And a lotta guts.

Wow I remember all the fun times I had at this track. Sure do miss going there on Friday nights.

Thank you for your video, it's sad to see this go unused , and everything abandoned this way.

Explored this a year ago. You have great footage I missed out on seeing the stands and most of the buildings😢. Ty for sharing .

Very fun to go along with you in this very well made video! The vehicle you encountered at about 9:45 is a street-sweeper. Maybe they used it to clean the track and/or pit areas?

Love the opening!! Great video.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING!! AWSOME

My parents took me and my brother there as kids. Your video brought back some good memories.

Pretty cool spot...nice seeing the memorabilia left there...✌🏻

I was there the night of that crash in the opening scene. We were parked right there by turn 4. I would have been 12 at the time. I remember the flames shooting up after the car smashed into the wall. It was one of the coolest/scariest things I had seen in my life (at that time). We used to go every Friday night. It is a shame that this place has turned into what it is today. Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of memories. C and C Lumber night! We always got to ride in the back of the delivery trucks when we took a lap around the track!

So much cool stuff left behind! Hope you took some stuff home. No harm in that!😃

Cool video! Very cool indeed! Thanks!

I can confirm the official shut done at the end of 2015 I was a member of one of the modified race teams that raced here that year the story that I got was the promoter ran out of money or ran off with the sponsor money for 2016 I've heard it told both ways and had a two-year contract with the track owner there by nobody else could take over the track and he had disappeared the end of 2015 so the track didn't reopen for the 2016 season and has set every since

It would be interesting to visit this track in 10 years. You are my favorite explorer keep up the good work 👏 🙌

Awesome, I used to live less than 10 miles from this track.

Great job , excellent video, sad but very well done

Awesome video, Dude!

Haha nice, on the table is write : VW Fahrvergnügen 😅 Thanks for upload and greetings from Bavaria

THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT VIDEO AND EDUCATION. THANKS FOR SHARING. I LEARNED SO MUCH.

Like you man i like how nature retakes stuff its just cool to look at almost therapeutic really

Man It would be awesome to have some banners and bumper stickers that old in the shop and on the toolbox! Even the beer posters are cool to me, I can’t believe all plaques and everything just dropped and left. They need a rightful home somewhere covered and the story will stay preserved. Definitely a talking point!

great vidio i really like ur perspective of these places

I've seen a few different coverages/backgrounds on this place and IMO, I'm shocked it stayed open till 2016! Did I hear that correctly? Compared to places like the mega millions Talladega, even in 2016 - those suites and that track were super outdated. Great video though

This is really depressing. 30 years ago we used to go and watch Charging Charlie Cragan and the rest compete every weekend during racing season. Sprint cars on Friday night at Lernerville (Looneyville) and late model stocks at Motordrome on Saturdays.

Very close to where I live. I've seen races on dirt and pavement. I forgot it was there. Good explore.

I used to take my little brother here a few Friday nights every summer. We grew up about 3 miles up the river from the track, and the sound would carry right up the valley.

Awesome find

great video !

I absolutely love this track in NR2003. I didn't even know it was closed and in this shaped until now..

We think of man-made structures as permanent and impervious obstacles to nature that will weather the storm, but the reality is that as soon as any structure or thing is no longer maintained, it is expeditiously reclaimed by the land with no mercy.

Great intro and what a cool place. Sad that it closed though and it just rots.

Awesome video

Those big signs are worth some serious coin

All these photos, banners, plaques etc need to be preserved for this places history before it's too far gone.

great pictures

It really is astonishing that of all the owners, investers, managers, staff and patrons of that place over the years, so many things were left behind that could have made great memorabilia or be repurposed.

Amazing!

I used to help a guy who raced there when I was a kid spent every Friday night there from the early 90s to early 2000s it’s sad that this place just got left behind an now is torn down

Great video

I grew up in the area and Friday nights at Motordrome were tradition, sad to see it like this.

Bedford fairgrounds on Wed. North Hills Speedway on Thurs. Clearfield on Fri. Smuckers on Sat. Motordrome on Sunday. Raced 5 dsys a week back then. The pits were up on the top above turn 4.

I remember back when I was little I went to that same track in West Newton, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh with my dad and friends who I brought with me. Those were great times and it sucks that they abandoned that place because it was actually fun there. I don’t know if the owners of the track passed away or something else. 8 years later I was 9, now I’m 17 and almost an adult. I miss that place. Hope someone will buy it one of these days!

Great vid

Great stuff. I love your videos, but at the same time, they make me a little sad as.well

Prior to being paved, Friday nights hosted motocross events in the infield section. It was like a supercross track. That was probably mid-eighties.

Love these kind of videos I live in jonesboro Tennessee and I don't live to far from Bristol speedway Bristol Tennessee

Nice video

Finna watch this later fur sure

Am in utter disbelief that someone hasn't gone in & snatched up all the memorabilia, souvenirs, & collectibles that were housed in the office building? My lord, hope all that merchandise is salvaged & saved by collectors before every structure on the grounds is destroyed & removed. A shameful waste to say the least. Not into racing, yet this is a COOL video!

Love the video man..... It's so sad how racing is dying.

It’s a bit sad to see pictures left behind. Still a fab find 😀

I was at a VW/Audi event called Oktoberfest. That would have been sometime around 2013 or 2014. So not long after the track closed. It certainly wasn't that bad back then. But it explains the Fahrvergnugen and Mr. Bubblehead on the platform in the infield.

We enjoyed the dirt tack era, wasn't much into asphalt... It was a great place!!!!!

Made a trip there one time and took lots of pics when Motordrome and Jennerstown were sister tracks

Enjoyed going there, so sad to see this now...

Amazing how they just left it all, kinda like a time capsule

This reminds me of abandoned movie theaters. Same empty social theme of what life was before the internet and Covid ruined my world. Life after people.

I remember this track before I was adopted in 1989 .... It had a dirt track and I got lost by a building in the back

Seems that NASCAR grew and this track didn't so it got left behind...be cool to see it brought back to life.

Wondering what it would be like to take a go kart there

Whenever I’m in the Pittsburgh area, I stay at the truck stop out front of the race track. I’ll have to take a walk next time.

I was last here in 2011 for an Enduro race that they had. Was not the best race, but the track is great. Crazy in just 11 years it’s become like this.

12:36 Dude!! Take that home!!