Tracks that have closed in your area

[wheelpackin]

KY Lake got bought out and will soon become, if not already, a housing addition? Is that correct?

[Doc88D]

KY lake was taken over by eminent domain and will be made into an exit ramp for the highways next to it...

[wheelpackin]

It sure is a sad thing to think about all these tracks that have been listed who now sit dormant.

[Late_Model_Mark]

Posted earlier, Green Valley Speedway, what a flippin' awesome track, maybe the best facility in the state. Had 2 great years of announcing there. That place was intense. Miss it so, had some real flavor to it.




Late Model Mark
Former Green Valley Speedway Announcer

[wheelpackin]

Green Valley Speedway is news to me. I seem to be behind at times...when did this happen?

[3 wide]

The guy that ran green valley new nothing about dirt track racing when they ran that big crate race a few years ago I think it was 25 thousand to win I asked a guy in the stand I said I don't get it he said what you I said there's not enough people in the stands to pay first place money he said don't worry about it the guy is loaded the last time I went there I left at 2 am and they had not stared the late model feature that's why they are out of business.

[stevensracing_6]

Dead lakes motor speedway in wewa,fl it was also called north florida motor speedway it was leveled and has projects on top of it now

[plunks7]

Not enough here.

[stevensracing_6]

But there is 2 new tracks that have opened in my area in the last 6 months so I'm Pretty happy about that

[Scott Boesel]

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'...

Is this Amherst by chance just curious

[luv racin]

Just went by Lake Cumberland Speedway in Burnside, KY the other day and seen where they have taken the tracks sign down and there is a Kingsford charcoal sign there..not good sign for the reopening of the track and I hate cuz loved the place

[25 Jay 53]

KY Lake is closest to me that has actually shut down, it and Clayhill in Atwood. But, as far as dirt late model racing goes, in my area it's dead. 2 small shows this season within 100 miles of me, a Comp Cams race in Camden, TN and a Southern All Stars race at Tennessee National in Hohenwald, TN. Other than that, 130 miles to a World of Outlaws race in Duck River. Otherwise gotta drive almost 200 miles to see anything decent.

[CIRF]

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

You're right. I stand corrected.

Thanks for setting me and the record straight.

[CIRF]

St. Augustine Speedway, St. Augustine, Florida
Thundercross Speedway, Okeechobee, Florida
The Mickyard, Disneyworld Speedway, Kissimmee, Florida

[SuperEight]

R.i.p.

Hwy 106 Speedway - Carnsville, GA
West Minster Speedway - West Minster, SC
Blue Ridge Speedway - Blue Ridge, GA
Sugar Creek Speedway - Blue Ridge, GA
Seven Flags Speedway - Douglasville, GA (aka West Atlanta Speedway)
Lakewood Speedway - Atlanta, GA (The track in, "Smokey and the Bandit" movie)
Peachbowl - Atlanta, GA