The Strangest Tracks NASCAR Ever Raced On

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NASCAR history is full of random weird tracks of all shapes and sizes, especially in the early decades of the Cup Series existence. The tracks led to wrecks, injuries, and worse. These are some of the weirdest tracks NASCAR has raced on, in the Cup Series at least. In the world of NASCAR, there are tracks that are considered to be quite unusual and out of the ordinary. From road courses to dirt tracks, NASCAR drivers have tackled some of the weirdest racing circuits in the sport's history. In this video, we take a closer look at some of the strangest tracks that NASCAR has ever raced on. From the unpredictable turns of the Bristol Motor Speedway to the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway, these tracks offer a unique challenge to drivers and keep fans on the edge of their seats. Whether it's the tight confines of Martinsville Speedway or the fast speeds of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, each track has its own quirks and characteristics that make it stand out from the rest. Join us as we delve into the world of NASCAR and explore some of the most bizarre and unconventional tracks that have hosted races over the years. Get ready to be amazed by the diversity and excitement that these tracks bring to the sport of NASCAR. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more NASCAR content!
Honorable mentions: Clash at the LA Coliseum, Soldier Field, and Bowman-Gray Stadium
5. McCormick Field, Asheville, North Carolina
4. Memphis-Arkansas Speedway
3. Langhorne Speedway, Pennsylvania
2. Linden Airport, New Jersey
1. Daytona Beach Road Course
Credit to NASCAR, Getty Images, BBC, NASCAR on Fox, NASCAR on NBC, and Asheville History Museum.

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@briantaylor9285 2 месяца назад

Racing in a circle and a baseball field is the ultimate BRUH.

@kurtheidel6535 2 месяца назад

Trenton Speedway in NJ. It had several configurations, but it's last was a 1.5 mile oval, with a dogleg on the backstretch. It was considered a Kidney Bean oval. Turn one at Pocono mimics turns 3/4 at Trenton.

@FlashoftheBlades 2 месяца назад

I’m surprised that track didn’t at least get an honorable mention.

@PlayMadness 2 месяца назад

I would kill to see a Colosseum style exhibition race calling back to the Daytona Beach track. Long straights, part pavement and part dirt. Hell, make it a progressive elimination race, where a handful of cars in the back of the field are eliminated every few laps to call back to the days of running moonshine.

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

That would be crazy honestly. I hope they keep trying new things with the schedule, a new track always gets me more interested

@NazriB 2 месяца назад

Lies again? Singapore Brazil Old Home

@J.C... 2 месяца назад

The track we had here in North Louisiana long ago, the State Fair Speedway, is known for being the first NASCAR/IMCA track with "luxury boxes" back in the 1950s or so. The infield had some sort of golf "pro club" and they used that during races and let big time fans stay there. IIRC, it might have even had AC. They weren't the first dedicated luxury boxes. That was in Houston some time later. These were converted for use during races only. Edit: OK so there was possibly only 1 NASCAR sanctioned race here in 53. Won by Lee Petty. The others were IMCA races, I think? People like Ramo Stott & Ernie Derr won here. Bobby Allison raced here. Terry Labonte. All kinds of well-known drivers.

@Daveybird 2 месяца назад

Speaking of racing at a baseball stadium, 16th Street Speedway during the late 90s was a USAC Midget dirt track inside the former Bush Stadium for Indy's minor league team, as an IRL initiative. It only lasted from 1997-99...

@jordanbrown4886 2 месяца назад

Fort Miami Speedway in Toledo, Oh was originally a horse racing track, which ran a couple of cup races in the 50s. It later became a ballpark, Ned Skelton Stadium, for the Mudhens, with the front stretch grandstands being repurposed as the 3rd base stands.

@Davespackey 2 месяца назад

I live in Toledo and that’s pretty cool.

@danieljackett4193 2 месяца назад

Richard Petty's first 2 races were in football stadiums in 1958 First was Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, where the Toronto Argonauts played... About 20 years later, it became the first home for the Toronto Blue Jays The next day the same drivers raced at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo...This was the first stadium the Buffalo Bills played in

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Yep, lots of football stadiums held races in the early years, so I kinda left them off the list. But there are definitely a lot of examples of football stadiums they ran in early on

@J.C... 2 месяца назад

Lee Petty won here in 1953 at the only known NASCAR race here. The rest appeared to be IMCA, mainly. and some others. All, kinds of people raced here. Ernie Derr, Terry Labonte, Aj Foyt. Countless others. The track that was here, Louisiana State Fair Speedway, is said to be the first track that, had luxury boxes, back in the 1950s. They had a Golf pro shop in the infield that they would turn into luxury boxes during races. Houston is said to have the first luxury boxes that were just luxury boxes and nothing else. The ones here weren't permanent. They only converted the pro shop into boxes. Still, it's said that State Fair Speedway was the first track to have them in any form. IIRC, they were also air conditioned. I posted this once already and youtube deleted my comment for some reason. Really getting sick of that tbh. My comment had nothing in it that it needed to be deleted for. I was talking about a racetrack. Smh.

@J.C... 2 месяца назад

@J__C__ 2 месяца назад

Let's try this again. It says I replied twice but neither of them show up when I come back to the comment. So I'm trying a different one. Lee Petty won here in 1953 at the only known NASCAR race here. The rest appeared to be IMCA, mainly. and some others. All, kinds of people raced here. Ernie Derr, Terry Labonte, Aj Foyt. Countless others. The track that was here, Louisiana State Fair Speedway, is said to be the first track that, had luxury boxes, back in the 1950s. They had a Golf pro shop in the infield that they would turn into luxury boxes during races. Houston is said to have the first luxury boxes that were just luxury boxes and nothing else. The ones here weren't permanent. They only converted the pro shop into boxes. Still, it's said that State Fair Speedway was the first track to have them in any form. IIRC, they were also air conditioned. I posted this once already and youtube deleted my comment for some reason. Really getting sick of that tbh. My comment had nothing in it that it needed to be deleted for. I was talking about a racetrack. Smh.

@RC.41 2 месяца назад

Wasn’t Petty’s first win in Toronto or just his first race?

@jacor653 2 месяца назад

Langhorne wasn't a perfect circle; it was more of an oval, or rather an ellipse.

@CatholicGunGuy 2 месяца назад

ok i literally just got into nascar, and this channel is ultra informative. subbed!

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Appreciate it! Hope you get a lot of info out of my channel

@coletrickle-km7cl 2 месяца назад

Catholic gun guy-- other awesome you tube nascar channels to check out : The scene vault podcast-- lotsa nascar history and war story's from past drivers and people that worked in the nascar industry. Stapleton 42--they talk to old nascar drivers and go to former nascar shops. Stock car surplus--shows you how they build a nascar race car.

@hughjaass3787 2 месяца назад

IMO a beach race would be Dope AF

@DJDouglasWarden 2 месяца назад

Great video

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Thank you

@zepplinrox3 2 месяца назад

My dad's friends raced at Longhorne on a couple of occasions..... they told some sketchy stories when I was a kid.... turn 2 was nicknamed Puke Hollow

@g_men2121 2 месяца назад

Id love to see NASCAR run a cup race at Cleveland! Same with Indycar. If they can close the airport for a few days for the air show.

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

I like the idea of bringing Cleveland back, would be super fun

@gofastandwynn 2 месяца назад

@@JakeSimRacingCleveland can’t comeback, the FAA won’t allow it. Mike Lanigan tried to bring it back in the mid 2010s but was told that post 9/11 you can’t shut down an airport for a new event.

@Electriceye1984bySam 2 месяца назад

Nice vid❤

@terryjacob8169 2 месяца назад

Langhorne: would have loved to have been around to watch Curtis Turner and Joe Weatherly race convertibles on the dirt there.

@jprice1150 2 месяца назад

My papa Tom raced Daytona beach. Then went on to win several boat racing championships . Wish I coulda experienced those days!

@sheasmith4283 Месяц назад

crashing a racercar into the 1st base dugout is just not something you think you’d ever hear about

@jbj7599 2 месяца назад

Oh damn i forgot about Langhorne, some nasty crashes. Insane track

@bowlingvanjapan4099 2 месяца назад

I think predicting the future like that is a fool’s errand. Also, the hubris of thinking that todays tracks and rules are the be all end all for all time.

@tombuchmann8248 2 месяца назад

I remember flying over California raceway Ontario

@noone-ft9lw 2 месяца назад

Good video

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Thank you

@bluedoggg1 2 месяца назад

I was a little kid when they raced at McCormick Field. I could hear the cars at my house on Friday night. At the time there was no noise ordinance.

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

That’s an awesome story! I’m sure the sound was great especially back then

@thespicemelange.1 2 месяца назад

West Palm Beach used to have a 3/8 mi at the fairgrounds It was the fastest bull ring raceway in the world.

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

I might do some more research into that

@bruceweidner2571 2 месяца назад

In 1970 I went to Langhorne and I watched Merv treichler beat his cousin Rodger and Jeffrey Bodine what a wild track that was

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Nice! I bet it was crazy

@bnice9810 2 месяца назад

This is right side tyre hell

@johnjones928 2 месяца назад

Langhorne aka "The Big Left Turn", it wasn't exactly a perfect circle so their were time when they were riding the rim and times they hugged the inside. That made it a track with one racing line that would start disintegrating midway through the race. It was almost impossible to pass for position because once they went off line they were traveling too fast to stay on the track.

@JeffWeselyan 2 месяца назад

It gotten sooo dangerous they had be shut down

@christopherharmon2433 2 месяца назад

Speaking of airport tracks, did NASCAR ever run at Sebring?

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Not that I am aware of, definitely not in the Cup Series at least

@kylegroulx3073 2 месяца назад

I'm disappointed that Hanford speedway in CA didn't get mentioned, or Trenton NJ

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

There might be room for a part 2!

@nicolesgaming8917 2 месяца назад

To be fair, Chicago is the first street circuit in the Cup and Xfinity Series, not in NASCAR as a whole. The Pinty's Series used to run a support race for IndyCar in Toronto, and in the late 80s, a regional series (I want to say the Winston West Series) ran two races on a street circuit around the Tacoma Dome and one on a street circuit in Spokane, WA. Also, about the Tacoma Dome street circuit, I find it odd to think that the longest straightaway now has light rail on it, and one of the short 1-block straightaways is now just a walking path.

@aussieozzyaussie 2 месяца назад

I don't think this is true, technically Circuit Giles Villeneuve is a street course and XFinity has run there

@aussieozzyaussie 2 месяца назад

There was also races run on an LA Street Circuit but I'm not sure what series ran there

@Noskywyd 2 месяца назад

The arca series raced on the streets of Iowa in 1991

@jbj7599 2 месяца назад

@@Noskywydis arca nascar?

@Noskywyd 2 месяца назад

@@jbj7599 yes, the same arca than ran a combination rave with the Winston west series at Texas world Speedway

@ATEC101 2 месяца назад

You want an airport track? How about NASCAR at Sebring? Why has this never happened?

@billmadison2032 Месяц назад

not enough lodging for fans. it's a small town with a famous track in the boonies. IMSA might be a roadblock too

@acedelta12 2 месяца назад

How did you not mention that one track with nearly perpendicular banking? Oakland Speedway, was it?

@villehursti 2 месяца назад

Even on a full circle, the NASCAR dudes are like "turn 4 is so hard".

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Lmao

@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks 2 месяца назад

... Sebring in Florida is an ex military airport... and still retains 1 active runway.... so to say that an airport track can't work... it's kinda just not true... you can retire one or convert part of one to a track, but to just shut one down doesn't always work... nevermind all the drag strips that used to be airports too.

@sam21462 2 месяца назад

"Airport tracks have gone the way of the DoDo" Silverstone: 😂🤣

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Same could be said for Sebring too. I meant active runways for most of the year lol

@sam21462 2 месяца назад

@@JakeSimRacing : Silverstone: Fair enough, I haven't been an airport since I defeated the Nazis.

@dingle37 2 месяца назад

Gonna get to Talladega this weekend. First nascar race ill have gone to. Gonna be awesome!

@dingle37 2 месяца назад

Who you think gonna win at Dega?

@harrisgage 2 месяца назад

Have fun Blaney is gonna get the w

@maxmccullough8548 2 месяца назад

I'll be there myself! See you at the races.

@NASCARCHAT24 Месяц назад

Im going to the goodyear 400 this weekend!

@NASCARCHAT24 Месяц назад

My first nascar race

@coletrickle-km7cl 2 месяца назад

Lee petty crashed into the dug out????!!!!!! Talk about your out!!! Grab some pine !!!!!!

@jacobwt1 2 месяца назад

Riverside speedway exists now

@doylecardwell1442 2 месяца назад

Trenton was odd

@SteveAllen-vz4pb 2 месяца назад

You forgot Trenton

@jacekatalakis8316 2 месяца назад

So if the owners would have had money, we'd have had a 1.5 mile Bristol? Okay now that sounds amazing even nowadays. I kind of envision it like the fictional Coca Cola Speedway from NR2003 or one of the fantasy ovals in the Thunder games for some sort of comparison EDIT: Wait a minute, Louisvillee had a circular track in the 95 Truck season too didn't it?

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Louisville was definitely a weirdly shaped track and it was on the Truck schedule for a few years

@jacekatalakis8316 2 месяца назад

I only remember it from 95 due to the weird rules it had, I'm airly sure it was stated either on the broadcast or elsehwere it was a circle though but don't remember exactly

@MatthewLewisAtlanta 2 месяца назад

Talladega is technically an "airport track" as well isn't it?

@MichaelWilliams-vb6wr 2 месяца назад

How In the world did they see with all that dust that's Nuts they should do that today to see who the real racers are not no Bristol dirt neither I'm talking about out in a field real dirt no prep and let em run

@tommcglone2867 2 месяца назад

Langhorne was literally the 8th Circle Of Hell. Especially when some fucking Einstein thought it was a good idea to pave a perfectly circular dirt track that was already stupid fast and so dangerous it should have been shut down.

@JakeSimRacing 2 месяца назад

Crazy how Langhorne lasted as long as it did. Insane

@sandrinedefaux3290 2 месяца назад

Nardo ring; noobs.

@coletrickle-km7cl 2 месяца назад

Langhorne was so dangerous because of the type of dirt they were running on. It was the wrong kind of dirt to race on. Its not the red clay that sticks together like you see in the south. The dirt surface would come apart in chunks and create pot 🕳 and ruts around the track. They tryed spraying pensylvania oil down on the track dirt surface to help the bad visiblity from the dust and to help to hold together the dirt surface before they paved the track 1965 and try to stop the ruts and wash board that formed during a race. But that didn't help all that much. The dirt and track oil got into every part of the race cars and the drivers.

@coletrickle-km7cl 2 месяца назад

(Joking)........aaand that's the "dirt" on that race track.....(🥁rimshot!🥁) Your knowledge on langhorn has come full CIRCLE.... OK I'll stop b/4 the dad jokes get stuck going around in a circle and get in a rut then get tossed out...