Tracks that have closed in your area

[K1ngCat]

Rockcastle, Clinton Co., Lake Cumberland, Bluegrass, Scenic, Golden Mountain, Tenn Motor, Atomic, Big South Fork, Mountain Motor, Lucky 7, Perry County, Bluegrass, Clay City, Barren Co., Cool Springs, Taylor Co., Thunder Ridge, Half Mountain, all fairly recently. Countless more since I was a kid. Lost Creek, Frankfort, Russell Springs, Junction City, McKee, Pine Knot, Lonnies, I am sure there are more.

Why did Atomic Speedway close?............always heard it was a bad A$$ track

[Clayton_Wetter]

In Tennessee Huntsville speedway,Oneida speedway,atomic speedway, Tennessee motor speedway at Baxter,crossville was suppose to reopen ,green valley Gadsden al,north Alabama.

And Scenic.

[Barbecueboy]

I-20 Speedway (Batesburg SC), Gordon Park Speedway (Augusta Ga), Mileback speedway (Gray Court SC), Thunder Valley (Lawndale NC), I-75 Speedway (Chester SC), Westminster Speedway (Westminister SC) have all closed. Modoc speedway seems to be iffy and no longer runs weekly shows.

The track in Chester was a very nice place .............

[nlhenry55]

441 Speedway in Dublin, Ga. Great facility, have seen some great races there over the years.

[dmr37]

Pops' list is a sad one, for sure. I can remember most of the tracks he lists.

I would add to Pops' list these Illinois speedway's that are also defunct:

Sterling Speedbowl Park,
Benton Speedway,
Brownstown Speedway,
Crawford County Speedway in Stoy, Illlinois,
Pittsfield Speedway,
Raceway Park in Blue Island,
White Squirrel Speedway in Olney,
3rd Street Speedway in Streator,Illinois,
Ohare Field Speedway in Des Plaines, Illinois.

And In Eastern Iowa we have Blue Grass Speedway that closed several years ago.

Brownstown Speedway? Is that Fayette County Speedway (open)?

[donkypunch4u]

Unfortunately its looking more and more like Lasalle Speedway is at the verge of being a statistic on this list. What a shame, this place went from being a first class facility to only hosting a handful of big money shows this year. I like the big shows as much as the next guy but without the grassroots weekly show, there is no place for young drivers to develop their talent with hopes of someday being part of the big show. Now more than ever people need to support their local tracks!

[HoosierDirtFan]

unfortunately its looking more and more like lasalle speedway is at the verge of being a statistic on this list. What a shame, this place went from being a first class facility to only hosting a handful of big money shows this year. I like the big shows as much as the next guy but without the grassroots weekly show, there is no place for young drivers to develop their talent with hopes of someday being part of the big show. Now more than ever people need to support their local tracks!

go read tony izzo jr's facebook page and you will have an idea why he is running a limitied schedule this year.
Not trying to be mean just letting you know.

[fastford]

Green Valley Speedway, original home of the Bama Bash......Still pi$$es me off!!!!! Who the he!! ever Harker sold it to, LITERALLY hated the track so much, they made a lake out of it......Have good health eating those fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sold it under the premise of a residential development and the only new houses on the property are shooting houses for the hunters. And for what it's worth, it's for sale again.

it still peeees me of to pap, there was also a track about 50 miles south that ran back in the late 90s and some during the 2000s called Childersburg speedway , one of the best tracks we ever ran, now there's ruts 2feet deep all over it, what a shame, but its still for sale.

[LMPunk]

In Tennessee Huntsville speedway,Oneida speedway,atomic speedway, Tennessee motor speedway at Baxter,crossville was suppose to reopen ,green valley Gadsden al,north Alabama.

Ha, we share an area. All the same ones I was going to mention. I'll add Albany, KY's track too.

[Late_Model_Mark]

North Alabama Speedway.




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[Krooser]

I thought I could buck the trend of tracks closing deal when I opened a new track in central Wisconsin in 2014. The original 1/2 mile track had only been used for horses and a couple of midget shows back in the 50's.

In the mid-2000's a group of snowmobile enthusiasts cut a 1/3 mile out of the big track and ran on an ice track for about 5 years. They had big $$$ sponsors but all that money went to the racers... the small group of promoters wound up working six months out of the year for zip. No profit = no racing and they pulled the plug after the 2013 event.

I leased the track the next season and put every last dime I had to my name in improvements and equipment. I had to petition the county for a zoning exemption. I was forced to have a 10PM curfew and limit my show to three lower classes to keep the locals happy and get the program rolling.

I lasted five nights before the cash ran out. Couldn't get guys to run a weekday show even though everything was done by 9:30 PM. One guy told me it 20 miles was too far to tow on a Thursday. Others wanted to only run under the same rules the other tracks in the area ran. I ran my 'open comp' rules and I guess the street stock guys got scared my pure stocks and old enduro cars would whip their a**ses so they stayed home. I needed car but I got little help.

I paid my drivers more $$$ than any other track in the area. I paid every race... trophy dash, heat, feature, back-up race... whatever we ran. I guess making $500.00 in one night with a streeter just wasn't incentive enough to race. My four cylinder guys got $200 to win their main... the track 15 miles away paid $15 and a pit pass for next week!

So I got a real lesson on how some of today's drivers operate. I guess racing just to race is an obsolete deal. Maybe I should have given out 'participation trophys'...

[dalemcfan]

Jax Raceways in Jacksonville, FL
Thunderbowl Speedway near Valdosta, GA
Waycross Motor Speedway in Waycross, GA (I'm considering it closed as long as they have the overflow of imported cars from the port of Brunswick parked in the parking lot)

[weatherman85]

Riverside Speedway near Travlers Rest SC. CLosed in 2006 and is now a golf course if I'm not mistaken.

[old fan]

Krooser that is a sad deal teams won't travel 20 miles on a Thursday night ,sounds like they just don't want to race

[golddirt]

but how about a drive -in turned to race track

That would be lasalle