List of Abandoned, Disused and Lost NASCAR Tracks 

Not only that, they should have an entire Series in the game you can unlock that allows you to drive as former, legendary drivers. Like Dale Earhardt, Jeff Gordon, Richard Petty, the Allisons, Darrell Waltrip, Cale Yarborough, Junior Johnson, etc.

I loved that game.

You took my comment away. Now that we are in the subject, and bare with a new yorker here that is not supposed to know about NASCAR. In this video a Chicago track is mentioned, is this Chicago Land? The one that is in the best NASCAR game to grace the PS3 NASCAR 09 with J. Gordon in the cover?.

@@jedistreaming4006 no, not Chicagoland.

@@six-pack1332 oh ok, thanks for clearing that doubt.

Wilkesboro all about money, to small of a venue; sad, great track....

TWS was a hair before my time. Riverside went to the wayside because it was the 1980's in Southern California and as the late great Frank Zappa wrote a song about, the Valley Girls couldn't survive without a mall within 500ft walking distance at any given moment. Very sad to see it go! But Wilkesboro being cut was a total disgrace, NASCAR forgot its roots once it was gone!

@@KK-ex5zu TWS's owner had been trying to close the track down for years to build houses. Rotten SOB finally succeded. RIP TWS🙁

They are building houses on TWS as I type this. There was an effort to bring it back several years ago but the owner of Texas Motor Speedway got it blocked ( that was the talk around town, how true that is I don't know). I spent a fair amount of time at TWS when I was a kid.

@@stevehairston9940 Even though its been officially closed for decades I saw a drone video of the track here on RU-vid from a few years back. They had patched sections of the track and people were using it, they even had a relatively new garage area. I guess the rich folks with their $200,000 speed machines were just screwing around out there. I was surprised how well the track surface held up after decades of sitting, its like the Texas weather preserved it! That would've never happened on the east coast. It's sad of course, a repave and new grandstands and a scoring box and the track would be good as new.

William your right the Asheville Weaverville race track is now the new North Buncombe High School. I was raised up in Weaverville, but I was unaware of a track at McCormick field 😊

That was my home track. Dammit Cuomo.

Kinda leaves ya with an empty feeling doesn't it.

Yes, they were... but I used pause to stop the video and read the captions, then un-paused and continued. Without pausing, I wouldn't have been able to read stuff fully either.

Guys, you can slow the replay down. I watched it in half-speed, but you can go all the way down to quarter-speed.

The Pause Button: Am I a Joke to you?

That's why God invented the pause button. You need to find God sir.

@@stanpatterson5033 common sense is the best ain't it?

Fonzies HW68 my hometown.

@@HeavyFOC awesome, my dad lived in Charlotte for a few years, on Pine St, it was a circle and a big tree in the middle. From the kitchen window, the new Panther Stadium was visible.

Hosting an ARCA event in 2019.

Nashville superspeedway

Thanks guys for more info!

um dude Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is still active and i dont believe it was closed you are probably thinking of Nashville Superspeedway

I have no idea what you guys are saying

The video was meant to be for abandoned no longer existing tracks that the top 3 series of NASCAR once raced on.

press space bar to pause the video whilst your watching, a good way of quickly stopping the video if you arent that comfortable with moving the mouse

@@simmycutters3757 thank you! I'm tech challenged and didn't know that!! Lol

@@ronniewatkins you're welcome!

@@ronniewatkins I'm 48 and had a hard time reading lol, I did pause the video from time to time lol.

Ronnie , I am analog too . Ha ha ! I am glad you asked the question because I learned something . I have been using the mouse to pause and back it up , hit the space bar thanx Simon . Now if I can figure out what key is reverse I will be happy . I like the video .

Corporate ownership is a killer! Doesn't matter what it is. Small businesses, farming, or any other merger/buyout! If the company you work for gets sold, HANG ON TO YOUR ASS AND DON'T BELIEVE A WORD THEY SAY!

@@bradlindeman7417 Amen to that. This Midwesterner is wondering what will happen to ARCA, and especially the ARCA Midwest Tour, now that NASCAR owns them. And in more general terms, more and more segments of the economy are being dominated by a few megacorporations. We used to have these things called anti-trust laws, but they seem to be forgotten about.

When I lived in NJ I went to 3 races there- the '97 & 98 Truck races, and the '98 Busch race. Very unique track, probably more of a "roval" than Pocono or anywhere else.

As a NASCAR fan that mostly followed the CUP series for the last 30 years, Nazareth was a good track. I miss the CART racing there before they had that split into IRL and CHAMP. The Truck racing was awesome too, I feel sorry for your northerners that was a damn good track!

@@thegoose858 Those laws are still on the books, it's just that no one has any real interest in enforcing them. Look up the Sherman Anti Trust Act of 1890 and you'll see how rarely it's been used in recent decades. It needs to be amended, like any good law, but, again, no one (since that butt-hole Reagan showed up on the scene) has had any interest in doing anything about it.

logpile13 as with many other sports

@@jr.daniels7750 You not wrong in many ways tbh. But other motorsports such as Open wheel racing and WEC aren't dying. Other sports are. Idk about Formula drift.

www.speedwayandroadracehistory.com/savannah-speedway.html

Strange bc there's a race or two there in the next month. And tarheel is very much alive as well. But you will only see flat track motorcycles there

Also the other track in Charlotte was not a dirt track. It was a board track aka motordrome. At least at the location you have mapped on here. It was also a 1.2 mile track. I don't recall reading it ever held dirt races.

Andrew Murch that is wrong. I was 2 different tracks. Savannah Speedway location is located on highway 17 in Savannah, the one that is now a borrow pit, hence underwater. Ogelthorpe Speedway Park is another track located off of highway 80 in Garden City and is still running events. My first race I attended was at Ogelthorpe Speedway in the late 50's. Savannah Speedway was a small grass airstrip before becoming a speedway in 1962. Ogelthorpe has always been red clay dirt. Savannah Speedway started out as paved asphalt, and drivers complained of it eating the tires up, so the pavement was taken off and it became dirt and about that time, Ogelthorpe stopped their events. Later, Savannah Speedway was repaved and that's when there were 10 Cup events and big drivers coming from North Carolina every week to race. I was at both races that Richard Petty won...2 of his 200. That lasted until about 1977 when Ogelthorpe Speedway started up again, so Savannah Speedway ripped all the asphalt up again and tried to compete with Ogelthorpe as a dirt track. It didn't work out very well, so Savannah Speedway was closed in 1981. I have pictures of Savannah Speedway before it became a borrow pit with remnants of the front straightaway, back straight and both corners with guardrails and pine trees growing up in the pits and all along the track. Savannah Speedway was at it's best as an asphalt track. Ogelthorpe Speedway has NEVER been asphalt.

I-70 never closed, they just couldn't get Lloyd's of London to write a liability insurance policy on the dump. Tentative dune buggy race scheduled May 2020, dependent on trim work. Acme Underwriters of Afghanistan phoned in a high deductible, low premium, limited liability, waiver mandatory, Africa subsidiary, variable rate policy based on Ethiopia's economy. Translation.........A 1st aid kit fully equipped with band-aids, bactien & bayer aspirin along with taxi-service to the nearest free clinic maintained on-sight. Hurry while tickets are still available. General Admission $8.50 Dopes, Drunks and children under 23 get in free.

rayism 24b, they showed on the local news the track before they did any work. It was an overrun dump. Didn't look anything like the track I remembered.

Apparently they've broken ground to make it a housing development. It's too bad.

Nope! Gone! Now a housing development.

I miss Plainville Racetrack in Plainville, CT. Now the home of a dying shipping center...

Especially in California in the 1980's, it's all those airhead Valley Girls Frank Zappa wrote a song about's fault! LOL.

Yeah but it never came into fruition

The track is still there just NASCAR never went and raced there.

I miss walt Disneyland speedway

ChuckLuckyDingo SF Great track but bad location. It’s a college town. They love their football but could care less about racing. Sad.

Owner had been trying to close it for years to build house's. After Houston flooded they parked 1000's of flooded car's at the track. That was it's final death blow.😟

steve hairston wow Steve, I didn’t know they did that. I know for awhile they allowed car clubs to rent the track and run on it. I went down one day to run my Corvette on the track about 6 years ago but a Viper club was on track that day and couldn’t use it. Enjoyed watching them run. Too bad it’s dead now. I tested a Baby Grand back in 1998 on that track and had a blast but ended up buying a Legends car and racing at TMS for 2 seasons.

@@scottt3100 motorcycle's raced there also starting in 1974. Search CRRC and CMRA on RU-vid and you'll find some kickass superbike racing.😲

Richie Evans , NASCARS greatest. R.I.P Richie

Eduardvi78900 You need to look up TWS on RU-vid and watch. This was a huge 2 mile+ oval and there were many big time NASCAR races held there through the 70’s and 80’s.

@@scottt3100 the year it closed was 2017, not 2015.

steve hairston I hadn’t mentioned or known exactly when it closed but thank you Steve. 👍🏻🤓

@@scottt3100 sorry about that. I didn't mean to quote you, I must've tapped your name accidentally. Video says it permanently closed in 2015, but really closed in 2017 after Houston flooded.

steve hairston Oh it’s quite alright my friend. I appreciate your accurate info about when and how it closed. I actually responded to you on another part of this topic. Sad that they closed it. I live in the Waco area and enjoyed going down there from time to time and watching various car clubs run on the track.

My dad raced there one time when I was probably seven years old. I just turned 70. Not surprising that most people are not familiar with it.

All Star Race 2023.