Exploring the Remains of Air Base Speedway: NASCAR's Ghost Track | S1ap on Location: Episode 1

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With the mystery surrounding Air Base Speedway all but resolved, the only thing left to do was to jump in the car and drive out to the site of the track to see if there was anything left of the old speedway. I expected next to nothing but walked away with way more than I bargained for.
This concludes the Air Base Speedway Trilogy, and I want to thank all of my followers new and old for propelling this series to heights I never thought possible. I plan on doing more S1ap on Location-styled exploration vids for more abandoned tracks in the future. If you have an suggestions, let me know.
This video was shot and edited by my buddy Evan Tripp. Check him out here: / impunny88
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Ross Bugden - Black Heat
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@S1apShoes 4 года назад

Update: Turns out those pop tops didn't come out until the 1960's so that setup with the party on the back stretch was likely some friends who were tearing up the track after it was abandoned. Also that "cooler" as someone pointed out is probably a radio-flyer wagon someone used to tote all the drinks around in.

@prismfireproductions3772 4 года назад

This is why you are awesome, good job!

@martinkelly8169 4 года назад

Hey for the true final conclusion for this air base field, see if you can call up one of the drivers from the race if they are still around, that would really answer some questions and be cool to see

@noahosborne8119 4 года назад

I got a speed way near me not abandoned I believe matt kenseth once raced there

@obizzil 4 года назад

I had a great time going on this journey, could you do a video on Tim Richmond?

@WillyMcCoy50 4 года назад

Pop-a-tops didn't come out until the late sixties. You needed a church key to punch two holes in the top. Also screw-top liquor bottles didn't exist in the early fifties. Cork tops ruled.

@kevinwagner4724 4 года назад

go back and metal detect, try to find old car parts

@comicbookguy2326 4 года назад

that's a great idea

@dudeman1839 4 года назад

Everybody like the fuck outta this comment. Gotta happen

@n0tdanish521 4 года назад

YAas

@mykemech 4 года назад

I am 2 hours away. Maybe I will give it a try some time.

@laundrybasket9031 4 года назад

I was about to say that lol

@bodes_26 4 года назад

Ok I just looked at the Google maps of that area and that abandoned building now has a pin saying air base raceway on it

@joshuabradberry9823 4 года назад

Jordan Young these videos got racing reference to change there page from paved to dirt surface too.

@pkz420 4 года назад

These videos were well researched and likely the best research that has been done on the track. When it was first closed, there wasn't any interest. Later, when there was interest, nobody had access to the resources that Slap used. Pre-internet finding information was exponentially harder than today. Even today without access to Slaps personal knowledge and network of enthusiasts, I don't see how anyone could have put together a more informative piece. It may seem odd, but these videos are probably the number one authority on the track today.

@RFMusic101 4 года назад

google maps is man made as in users can pins

@blahblasolis7807 4 года назад

can you show me

@hurricaneman7777 4 года назад

You can also see in spa (Radillion actually)

@technopanda1018 4 года назад

Slap on location: finding the lost colony of roanoke

@limetwistanimations8628 3 года назад

And then racing on it.

@stormrigsng 3 года назад

Lol

@CarlCrisp 3 года назад

It’d be great if he found something like that while looking for a racetrack

@sendit9129 4 года назад

That budweiser can was produced from 1956-58, good chance that some boys made some good memories at that track after it closed down. Awesome series man, I'm really enjoying the content!

@gotham61 2 года назад

It's not that old. Pop tops didn't exist until the mid 60s.

@smsnassau7258 4 года назад

Step one: win the lottery Step two: Airbase 2 electric boogaloo

@xEpicBronyTimex 4 года назад

No way, Revive North Wilkesboro. Theres at least still pieces left

@CMFR89 4 года назад

Texas World Speedway!

@floridawk249 4 года назад

I just watched that episode wtf

@pretendracingcars8028 4 года назад

Airbase 2 the squeakquel Airbase 3 chip wrecked Airbase 4 road chip

@williamfryman4360 4 года назад

Awesome It’s Always sunny reference!

@evannuh-koo-la4054 4 года назад

S1ap on Location: North Wilkesborrow Speedway

@joshuabradberry9823 4 года назад

Evan Nekula were working on that. There’s a lot of tracks within a couple of hours from where we live.

@redviper1608 4 года назад

Evan Nekula Hopefully he takes weed killer with him

@yfz77 4 года назад

It is definitely worth going to. I was so glad I was able to go in it.

@chrispollock9047 4 года назад

*Wilkesboro

@wingracer1614 4 года назад

@Dave Pawson Former driver Dean Combs got busted for running a moonshine still out of a building next to N Wilkesboro.

@JerryDLTN 4 года назад

19:10 Someone should put a historic plaque there for the start/finish line

@johngancarcik5682 2 года назад

I agree

@redviper1608 4 года назад

This series has so much potential, I would love to see you explore more abandoned tracks like this.

@fatford4209 4 года назад

Hell yes!

@bbn_strouse 4 года назад

Not just abandoned tracks, people do that all the time with placed like Rockingham and North Wilkesboro, but through some completely unknown tracks. What makes this special is how hard he had to dig through rare information to even find that this place exists

@ilovebeingwhite7830 4 года назад

Yes! Local tracks! I grew up in oak ridge, TN next to atomic speedway. Which is now probably just a semi-truck parking lot 😢

@chasee3797 4 года назад

I had a track in my hometown of Powell Ohio that hosted a single race in 1953.

@zachhatten261 4 года назад

S1ap on location: Is Exploring the remnants of Jimmie Johnson's career

@fasteddie5174 4 года назад

Next video: "Traveling back in time to race at Air Base Speedway!"

@thepaisleyproject 4 года назад

We have an overhead view of the track and relative size, if we can estimate the banking it's an ez make in rfactor or assetto

@GeorgiaStateRailfan 4 года назад

@@thepaisleyproject Yes, We need Airbase Speedway in assetto corsa.

@maskiiofficial3345 4 года назад

@@GeorgiaStateRailfan or NR2003

@bro_hornet 3 года назад

MrWillyP it should be in greyscale

@JackTheripper911 3 года назад

@@bro_hornet why...? You realize life wasnt greyscale back then right..?

@Fightre_Flighte 4 года назад

I love how you actually put those old forgotten artifacts back where you found them. Even the bottles back in their holes that they were left. Very respectable to do. Something more people should do.

@zlinedavid 4 года назад

"Leave no trace"

@Fightre_Flighte 4 года назад

@@zlinedavid Absolutely.

@haj811 4 года назад

take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but foot prints.

@falstar2020 2 года назад

i noticed what he called a "cooler' looks like a Radio Flyer wagon upside down and the axles rusted off.

@somebonehead 2 года назад

Genuine inquiry, why would you leave trash in a place like this? Wouldn't it be better to leave it better than how you found it?

@Idiots_on_Parade 4 года назад

Definitely metal detect guaranteed you'll find a 10 mm socket lol

@austindevlin6116 4 года назад

Back then americans used american sizes not that commie shit

@EmazingGuitar 4 года назад

Austin Devlin there’s two types of countries. Those who use the metric system. And those who went to the moon 😉

@fightingfalconfan 4 года назад

Most likely back then you would find a 1/2 inch socket.I don't think American manufactures started using metric until the 70's.

@Gallade082 3 года назад

Carlos Martinez actually NASA uses metric and lost a Satellite because of converting

@jonathanryan2915 3 года назад

Back then it would be a 3/8" or 7/16"

@TheIrishDino 4 года назад

The madlad actually did it.

@idkwhattoputhere4695 4 года назад

I see you absolutely EVERYWHERE!

@leonidas1749 4 года назад

Justin Y. No. 2

@katarn109 4 года назад

I dont even watch nascar. But as a motorsport fan this is so cool to watch.

@raaaaaaaaaam496 4 года назад

Exactly. I only watch F1 but NASCAR history is very cool

@sgtpepper6379 4 года назад

@@raaaaaaaaaam496 F1 history is also extremely cool, coming from a NASCAR fan. I like F1, but I watch indycar to get my open wheel fill. But those crazy tracks like pescara or AVUS with the crazy banked turn really interest me.

@YusufC51 4 года назад

I used to watch NASCAR, but now I can't keep track of it and my favorite driver, Jeff Gordon retired a few years ago. Now I'm more interested in the fiawec, blancpain GT series, and IMSA.

@sgtpepper6379 4 года назад

@@YusufC51 Jeff Gordon was my favorite since I was 5. It's hard trying to find a new favorite. I like a lot of the guys, but Matt Dibennedetto might be my new guy.

@PanicTheManic11 4 года назад

Motorsport fan. Nascar is a Motorsport. Moron. In hence you’re not a Motorsport fan you just like the ones you like.

@CitySlicker34 4 года назад

Ironically, I got an ad for the Air Force during this video

@dylanalarcon7708 4 года назад

Dylan Shramko might have to do with your search history other Dylan lol, judging by your profile pic at least

@bigglilwayne7050 4 года назад

What irony, I'm sure it has nothing to do with you blowing them

@semperfi5861 3 года назад

@@bigglilwayne7050 😅😂😭🤣🇺🇸👍

@4WDutah 3 года назад

Not gettin me recruiter 🤣

@markevens 4 года назад

10:15 "This is a back straight if I've ever seen one!" in the middle of some woods. What an amazing video this is. Thank you so much for your effort undergoing this glorious project.

@maskiiofficial3345 4 года назад

S1ap On Location: North Wilkesboro Speedway (Call fans to help mow the track so Dale Jr. can get it into iRacing)

@extragoogleaccount6061 2 месяца назад

Pretty crazy reading this now

@jordantomblin2302 4 года назад

Those Budweiser cans were DEFINITELY from the 1960s. They had changed the text slightly by the late 60s or early 70s, I believe.

@lskiller1903 4 года назад

The ring tab beer can top was first used in 1965. Prior to that beer cans were opened with can opener creating two triangular holes in the top of the can one for drinking out of and one for air. Beer drinkers carried them on their key chains. The pile of debris was a child's wagon and a chair everything needed to haul beer and sit in comfort while watching a race, but who would of just walked away and left the items after the race? And why didn't someone else take the items after someone abandoned them. Most likely all the debris was someone's trash thrown away in the woods at a later date.

@Diskord1982 4 года назад

@@lskiller1903 yeah, I thought the same thing. My thought was some kids went back there to get drunk and just left their stash there.

@sqike001ton 4 года назад

Also a vodka bottle in the south outside of a major city fancy cocktail bar would point to late 60s early 70s I'm guessing he found a teens party spot for the late 60s early 70s

@gunnarray2342 4 года назад

@@sqike001ton in north Flagstaff arizona I lived in a cabin for a little bit, so I decided to go for a hike in the forest and I found an old car seat and bottles of wiskey and a note in the middle of the forest it was strange.

@MrWolfSnack 4 года назад

If you're getting hammered on a 6 pack or two and vodka as well - you ain't gonna remember being anywhere.

@Zoetropeification 2 года назад

The aerial photos were great. In 1964 the fan parking area and entry road from Antioch are still clearly visible. As well as the access or competitors entry road off turn three. Not to mention it looks like absolutely no vegetation is growing in the pit area inside of the 1/4 mile loop twelve years after the track closed. In the 1976 photo turns one and two and much of the backstretch are clearly still visible after the rail line and most buildings had been constructed. Thanks for your effort researching this.

@susime1239 4 года назад

Hats off to you and everyone who helped in these three videos. It was very fascinating learning about an almost unknown race track and also bittersweet seeing you checking the location out and seeing that there's little to no hints that a race track was even there. Makes one wonder if the people who work in the industrial units on the site know that a race track was once there.

@RC.41 4 года назад

Episode 2: Slapshoes walks in the woods. Finds George Washington’s sword Episode 3: SlapCruise: Discovers lost Titanic jewels

@l228spn 4 года назад

Episode 4: Slapshoes finds Jimmy Hoffa

@johngancarcik5682 4 года назад

Episode 5: slapshoes finds how to fix nascar

@sidebite2533 4 года назад

@@johngancarcik5682 He will never find that, nor anyone for that matter. Too many greedy millionaires.

@landrylongacre6391 4 года назад

Episode 6: Slapshoes finds my dad who went to get milk 15 years ago Episode 7: Slapshoes finds lost Nazi gold

@Outdoorsman-tu2zs 4 года назад

Episode 8: Finding Lincoln’s top hat Episode 9: Finding a Viking helmet Episode 10: Finding Epstein’s secret second island

@TX_BADMAN 4 года назад

Outstanding Job on hunting this down. Just so you know there are a few of us here in Texas that have been following you closely in order to see if there was anything left of Air Base Speedway. As you may or may not know. We here in Texas have seen many tracks come and go over the years and many just as old and older than Air Base. Thank you very much for all the effort you put into this.

@fast.biking_freddy 4 года назад

Some quality investigative journalism

@DOMTURISMO 4 года назад

I’m about to start writing like you lol

@legendracer8566 4 года назад

Texas World Speedway

@jerredwayne8401 3 года назад

Yep. Our east Texas tracks have close and now we go to Louisiana to watch racing. Some of my buddies race factory stock

@theWoodrow321 4 года назад

Newberry Speedway in Newberry, S.C. Holds the nascar record for the lowest attendance of any grand national race. Only ran one race.

@TyrinsClips 4 года назад

Wait, hold up, wait?

@davidhonkstvorisit4811 4 года назад

What was the attendance?

@husqv5147 3 года назад

So sad to see old race track remains. When you think of the thrills and joy they brought to so many families.

@ppioneer1417 4 года назад

I can't belive you've grown so much. I remember watch the worst race of nascar TALLADEGA 1969. There was 6 comments and you had less than 4 thousand subs. I see so many comments of people who dont watch nascar but watch your videos. I think you can really make a difference in the sport. Keep up the great work

@TheBrainSpecialist 4 года назад

Any chance you could cover the NASCAR races in Japan in the late 90s?

@andyka591 4 года назад

Yeah i believe it's raced on Motegi Speedway

@SaidHead2 4 года назад

Andy KA Between 1996 and 1997, they ran the East course at Suzuka Circuit. They moved to Twin Ring Motegi in 1998.

@ARKajah 4 года назад

@@andyka591 and we'll see that circuit on the next MotoGP round

@andyka591 4 года назад

@@ARKajah yeah can't wait to see that

@themazespinner2610 4 года назад

I remember keiichi tsuchiya raced there

@wendigockel 4 года назад

Now we need someone to recreate the track for Assetto Corsa or iRacing

@thepaisleyproject 4 года назад

Iracing only does laser scanned tracks, so assetto Corsa or rfactor

@tsunamianakin9649 4 года назад

Or even Nr 2003

@driffbro3380 4 года назад

@@tsunamianakin9649 who even plays that anymore?

@mickeyjpg918 4 года назад

@@driffbro3380 People play Grand Prix 4 which was in 2002,2003 and it still is modded to this day.

@bcracingnetwork4397 4 года назад

That would be cool to race on iRacing. I hope iRacing can get Nazareth on iRacing.

@dansmith822 4 года назад

Calcium chloride is just road salt. We use tons of it on our highways in B.C.

@unsolve9162 4 года назад

Dan Smith It’s harmful to humans. It’s been in talks of being banned , I assume the amount they used for the track was wayyyy more than what they use on roads today knowing more about how harmful it is.

@zerobandwidth 4 года назад

A high concentration of salt in the soil would have changed, at least for the first several years, the number and types of plants that would have grown up once the area was given back to wilderness. It's not a dead wasteland, but the stripe of scraggly-looking pines with no brush around them looked like a pretty stark contrast to the deciduous trees and thick brush that was just off the side of the back stretch. A quick tour through the results of a Google search for "calcium compound reduce dust" produces some fascinating reading about calcium chloride -- in particular, its resistance to being washed away when applied to various surfaces. Looks like they _actually_ "salted the earth" enough to make it kinda sorta work. haha

@Bodi2000 4 года назад

Not sure about BC, but common salt (sodium chloride) is used as road salt in ON, for winter ice melting. Calcium chloride is hygroscopic, absorbing water - common once on dirt roads to reduce dust as the road surface stays damp. Maybe still used for that, not sure. Both are detrimental to plants. Dirt tracks around me use water trucks to wet down the track before and between race heats.

@Joeybagofdonuts76 4 года назад

@@Bodi2000 CaCl is also used for ice removal. It is effective to lower temps than NaCl

@joannelynnepettigrew2277 4 года назад

Thank you for the information on calcium chloride !

@comicbookguy2326 4 года назад

damn i have been waiting for this since last video, amazing channel keep it up

@themoo908 4 года назад

Let me add that’s google earth using the historical setting, changing the dates.

@PanicTheManic11 4 года назад

The Moo there is no historical seating with dates. I’ve looked for that before.

@NSx2006 4 года назад

Thanos: *snap* AirBase speedway: *disappears*

@JohnSmith-mk5jt 4 года назад

Air Base Speedway: Mr. Greenville? I don't feel so good . . .

@tylermccune7092 4 года назад

Thankfully there’s a good chance that North Wilkes is going to be immortalized into Iracing thanks to Dale Jr

@johngancarcik5682 4 года назад

Update tune into fox on Saturday afternoon for a nascar iracing special race

@bradstephens4268 4 года назад

Awesome I can't believe the back straight is still there , a bit sad but I guess it's called progress. Thank you for this, from Melbourne Australia

@whilethecitysleeps4928 4 года назад

Brad Stephens Melbourne represent mate 🇦🇺🤜🏻🤛🏻

@zachhatten261 4 года назад

I love finding channels right as they start taking off. I'm excited to be part of this first installment of Slap on location

@Bulbasore 4 года назад

Bro, I don’t watch or know nothing about nascar, but these videos of this track have been really interesting to watch

@craigcollins6709 4 года назад

This trilogy was amazing and inspired me to do some deep diving into some local stuff near my hometown that I've heard about but never looked in to! Great stuff!

@beccaj 4 года назад

Jungle Park Speedway...north of Rockville IN...1/2 mile dirt track

@ianhawkins3687 4 года назад

Becca J I second this. That track had some terrible events take place there during its existence

@ahrred3127 4 года назад

Now We Need To Find Someone Who Participated/Related In Air Base Speedway

@endreszentgyorgyi5270 4 года назад

Dey all ded

@chaseelliott8578 4 года назад

@@endreszentgyorgyi5270 maybe richard petty raced there. He isn't dead

@lindahaugh4711 3 года назад

@@chaseelliott8578 No, he only started racing in 59, and the track was closed by 52

@chaseelliott8578 3 года назад

@@lindahaugh4711 oh.

@chaseelliott8578 3 года назад

@@lindahaugh4711 I mean. He probably could talk about it since his dad lee probably raced there

@OldSchoolDudeGaming 4 года назад

"Thankfully they put that chemical compound down or we'd have trees here" Take a second to let that phrase sink in lol.

@phil1333 4 года назад

I have thouroghly enjoyed this trilogy you have created. From begining to end you have captured my attention. It's so intriguing, I've watched it 4 times now. I agree with a lot of these people commenting...hunt down some lost and abandoned tracks, and do what you do best...capture our attention. Thanks!!!

@danielt8960 4 года назад

Never clicked on a video so quick in my life. 🏁🏁

@srtaddict275 4 года назад

Daniel T same it was first in my recommended

@carracenation3774 4 года назад

I saw it and was on it in less then 1 minute

@normalviewer740 4 года назад

This is turning into my favorite RU-vid channel for your consistent uploads and great content! Please continue to do what you love and don’t feel pressured to post or do something you don’t want to do. Have a bunch of fun

@thomaswebster6319 4 года назад

This was awesome man. Enjoyed every episode. This series could really have an impact. You keep doing this research on other tracks and exploring abandoned ones. It was be awesome. Keep of the fantastic work!

@robbchastain3036 4 года назад

This is like walking the grounds of an abandoned drive-in theater, fascinating. Thanks for this and I'll stay tuned for more, not that you have to top this, providing the sport itself with some forgotten history about one of its first tracks. And surely it was a party out there, all those war vets showin' up with their friends and families for some racing in the early Fifties. And they deserved those good times.

@Swerval 4 года назад

I stumbled on this series a couple of weeks ago and I, like many other people commenting here, would love to see you keep digging up old tracks and motorsport history. If you keep going on-site, maybe invest in a microphone so that your camera man can pan about without losing your voice as you describe what you're seeing

@kylehughes2629 4 года назад

That rectangle peice of rusted metal you said looked like a cooler by the folding chair in the woods id say with 99% accuacy would have been an old radio flyer wagon! I seen one old rubber tire just by it with the rim rusted away from it!!

@MrWolfSnack 4 года назад

Yes, because a steel cooler full of ice and beers would have been stupidly heavy to carry that far. They used little Timmy's wagon and carted it out there and camped out. Then got so drunk they forgot about it. The cooler likely would have been blown away by wind because it is a larger and more round object than the chair or wagon.

@herokurogane4055 Год назад

that start is just incredible, i watched emplemos never ever #3 video so many times i recognize how it looks, great job on that reference

@markevens 4 года назад

I loved this whole incredible journey. Thank you so much for letting me join along on this. This really was a special historical thing. Whatever it is, I think you for it. I am richer for having experienced it.

@SpeedbeetleV2 4 года назад

That was one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time. It's crazy to think about how completely different the area was back then and how unrecognizable it is now

@NGKGMR 4 года назад

I couldn't wait for this video!you are a legend

@shayneramsay1388 4 года назад

I am so glad you were able to find some remnants of the past race track. I would certainly love to see more of these.

@gearhed7348 4 года назад

Great Stuff - Your series on air base speedway was incredibly interesting. Thank you for taking us all along for the ride, and for your hard work pulling all this together. Fascinating!

@WeChallenge 4 года назад

Started watching your channel when you first mentioned this phantom track,, so cool to be able to see this come to reality of you actually getting to go there and share the place with those of us interested in your story. Subbed and glad I did seeing this made a full run from hearsay to actually being able to step foot on the location. Awesome sauce.

@sevenofor 4 года назад

You did it! I was anticipating this video, it did not disappoint!

@JoesBrute1 4 года назад

In that photo from 1976 @ 7:40, you can still see turns 1 and 2 going in to the woods and leading to the train tracks. Pretty cool video. Thank you slaps.

@racingtog 4 года назад

Your content is beyond fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to research and build this for us. The world needs more old American racing content.

@blairo15 4 года назад

Awesome mate, I've been watching your series from Australia with great interest! We have a lot of road racing tracks over here that have gone the same way in favour of temporary street circuits. I feel so sad for the history lost, great work mate!

@cgunugc 4 года назад

If you ever go back; go to the Clock resturaunt. It's right there, it's great food for reasonable prices, and it's one of my favorites (second only to the Hub, when they're open). Crazy to see the roads you grow up on in a video about historical places. Then again, who knew all that used to be on Antioch Church road? Actually, I ought to ask around the family. Knowing us, we probably did know that. I'll get back to you.

@marz_mitzi 4 года назад

I find it sad but at the same time.. nice how Antioch Church road outlived the race track..

@mackwhitehurst4055 4 года назад

Man this series of videos were amazing. Thank you so much for all your hard work. This was awesome to watch

@Sky7836_ 4 года назад

13:00 that round oval object looks like one of the lights from the magazine

@GorbMcNasty 4 года назад

Been waiting for this episode :) , Good job matey.

@JNT101 4 года назад

He’s Back! Love the new series idea. Keep it up man!

@harrytodhunter5078 4 года назад

My dude pumping out high quality content as usual. Cant wait for more of this series!

@joshuafarmer3467 3 года назад

Man, I've been a NASCAR fan since 1988 and I had never heard of this racetrack until you brought this to us. Thank you.

@NotSmokeHD 4 года назад

This channel is gonna blow up after this, it is very well deserved! Thank you for finding this piece of forgotten racing history!

@nwpm3059 4 года назад

I wonder how many sticks and trees you will find there 🤔

@alfredo42o 4 года назад

Mod of nwps I’d guess maybe 2 or so

@max27stoner 4 года назад

Very interesting video man. Thanks for sharing. I'm not that big NASCAR fan tbh but these old tracks fascinates me from all around the world. Especially like those old amazing F1 tracks and also little these NASCAR ovals.

@steeliewheelies 4 года назад

This is SO freakn cool, thank you for diggin into this and searching. Very interesting stuff

@mickoostingh5777 4 года назад

i was looking forward to this episode

@bruhbbawallace 4 года назад

Man, it's so crazy seeing this area in a RU-vid video. I drive past the Super Inn that you passed in the intro every day on my way back and forth from college. My uncle used to work at the 3M that's basically across the street from where the track used to be. It's surreal seeing someone else filming here.

@GAMMA_AF 4 года назад

I'm not a Nascar fan, but I enjoy your videos. Nascar culture and the History of Nascar is fascinating to me. You have to appreciate an all American sport.

@kev1565 4 года назад

The airbase speedway mystery trilogy comes to a satisfying conclusion

@laundrybasket9031 4 года назад

Next video take your car around the track.

@AS3R1US 4 года назад

yeh that would be cool.. mayb host a whole event there

@v1nny12 4 года назад

Dirt bike through the old track, may still be possible haha

@burlingtonfan7492 4 года назад

3 buildings and a railroad spur cut right through where the track used to be, so, it would be impossible

@laundrybasket9031 4 года назад

@@burlingtonfan7492 nothing is impossible 👁️👁️

@user-rn6kq5qd5v 4 года назад

@@burlingtonfan7492 I was thinking about that

@LivvorMorthis 4 года назад

25 secs in and I hear the squidbillies theme song f u c k i n g n i c e

@phillip5245 4 года назад

Do not touch the trim!

@hank1556 4 года назад

Unknown Hinson still yours by the way!

@Adamas_83 4 года назад

More of this S1ap! So awesome to see the history, the research and then the current state in a mini series like this. I think you just found yourself a winning formula for the channel. I think the reaction has proven: we the audience, will eat this stuff up.

@hughgordon6435 4 года назад

Not even a nascar fan, but came across this and wow! So much hard work without profit, the amount of info from the public.... must be a film or TV series

@tombo6245 4 года назад

This video was so good, I’m watching it again lmao

@nathanielhiggerson7679 4 года назад

Thomas Carling yeah definitely lmao, stfu dude

@saltbjorn 4 года назад

11:50 shout out to the flag man

@johngancarcik5682 4 года назад

The unsung hero of this gem of a track and legend has it when it's dark the spirits race there and the other long lost tracks

@TheRam273 4 года назад

Man I’m loving this history lesson👊 it’s awesome how you are able to locate with the overlay maps. Keep up the hard work.

@Ligerzeronz 4 года назад

Im from NZ, and watch alot of NASCAR and other US speedway sports, and man, watching your series, and now this just makes my heart giddy! Good job to you guys on this research and on-location investigation! Kee it uP!

@TheLeggera 4 года назад

I don't follow NASCAR but this was such an interesting series well done 👍🏻 Greetings from Australia !

@workingguy6666 4 года назад

Forgive me, but I'm not quite sure the chair and stuff you found was positively from the race. In a copse of woods like that, it could easily have been someone's hunting seat, kids' camping area (kids were far more outside-y back in the late 60's, 1970's, 1980's, and would set up camps to just camp, or to drink pilfered-from-parents alcohol), or any number of other things. Pull-top beer can lids - look into what year they came about. 1950's into the early 1960's may very well have had cone-top beer cans with bottle caps. 1963 Iron City Beer became the first to use pull-tabs, but that was in Pittsburgh. The other beer companies weren't (IIRC) immediate adopters. I would suggest a metal-detector in the infield where you believe they used to work on the cars. Most likely you'd find brake cylinders, spark plugs, etc. under the soil.

@ronframe387 4 года назад

Working Guy: yeah what he thought was a cooler was an upside down kids wagon from my childhood days, 1960's. You are right, a metal detector should definitely turn up some cool stuff!

@muzikman183 4 года назад

This, sir, has been quite the journey! Thank you for the trip!

@karlnelson2829 4 года назад

Just watched all three of these videos consecutively, great job! Fascinating piece of history.

@SuperCookieGaming_ 4 года назад

A metal detector would have been cool but the businesses probably wouldn’t want you digging up their property.

@diogosousa4165 4 года назад

With Vettel taking P1 in F1 and this video coming out.. this is a good day

@jkarhiaho 4 года назад

Yeah!

@diogosousa4165 4 года назад

@Dean E yupp

@ORL_Raptor 4 года назад

Please keep up with this series!!! I ran into your channel by youtube accident (randomly popped up on my reccomended) i watched the entire Air Base Trilogy and i love it!! Instant Sub! Keep it up

@ryanstreuli9554 4 года назад

So cool seeing that the trees grown where s racetrack once was and no one really knows but at one point it was living and full of excitement, and a part of NASCAR history and how the track is almost long gone

@TotoDG 4 года назад

The next S1ap on Location should be Nazareth. Please. ☺️

@KallyNui 4 года назад

I've been thinking of heading up there to check it out haha. It's like 45 min away from me.

@papabless1448 4 года назад

Kally go for it!

@oN3xShOtxkilL 4 года назад

I live an hour from nazareth as well

@jessebichsel4280 4 года назад

I was at the last busch and modified race there in 2004 I believe it was. It's crazy how over grown and run down it looks now

@slowdriver6868 4 года назад

Dude I'm a subscriber to you! Did not expect to see you here. Hope your channel grows more

@edudmas2248 4 года назад

When you type Greenville textile speedway into maps, Greenville Pickens comes up. Still confused to this day lol. Nice series man keep it up.

@johngancarcik5682 4 года назад

Back then record keeping wasn't as good as it is today

@edudmas2248 4 года назад

John Gancarcik yeah, sad though maybe if they kept the records then this wouldn’t be such a mystery.

@gott2641 4 года назад

This was very interesting to watch. I am glad that there are people such as yourself to try and preserve history, or at least what is left of it sometimes. I can just imagine some of the people that live and work in that location probably have no idea what used to be there sixty some years ago! Sadly, I'm sure that there are other tracks out there that are forever lost and forgotten - only remembered by those that are sadly gone now as well. Fortunately, Air Base Speedway is not! Great job on this!

@jamieryall8341 3 года назад

Great detective work! I remember being a kid in the '60's my friend & I came upon what used to be a race track of some sort in back of an abandoned amusement park up in Massachusetts. Thanks for the 3 great videos & your curiosity & resolve.

@jbaskinger41 4 года назад

I think I need to go and visit Athens Speedway because it’s very abandoned, but it still has an address.

@WizardOfWhoopee 4 года назад

Haha, the opening song is the theme song from Squidbillies. "Don't touch the trim!"

@BarrySkipp 4 года назад

To be honest, I don't particularly care for NASCAR or the like.. but I found this series while diving deep into youtube and it captured me.. very well done, very informative. Your love of the sport and its history is apparent and bringing back a lost racetrack of any kind is an achievement. Well done.

@markbowles2382 4 года назад

as an old surveyor turned gpr locator the traces of glory days gone by is something I experianced a lot of in my 30 years in jville, wouldnt trade those memories for nothin, silly as they may seem to others, appreciatte the post, its always important to look back, gives you a better perspective, Thanks again.

@kendallthehammerheadbecker20x Год назад

7:48 uh oh, bad predicting lol, but honestly nobody knew it was coming back

@dedicatedtohim 4 года назад

Great video you should check out metrolina speedway in Charlotte the track dale earnhardt got his first ever late model win the remains of the track is still there. Along with tri city in High point the remains of the track is surrounded by a housing development and a church