West Virginia Motor Speedway

[old fan]

Knoxville has a long reputation of great racing and great crowds

[jlacey]

I remember watching Shaver and Moyer running wide open and lapping the field somewhere between 95-97 during the DTWC weekend. Watching those 2 work lapped traffic was about the only excitement, but Pennsboro got rained out that weekend so that was the only feature we got to see. Always liked that place tho with the "grandstands" carved into the mountain

[wimpyrox]

I thought I remembered reading that the work redoing the track was going to be done by apprentices, or guys in the operating trade being supervised by an older, experienced person who was supposed to be pretty good at that type of work. Maybe all that cheap labor paid off,it looks like it. I was there a time or two, saw some pretty good racing.

[GEAR_HEAD]

I thought I remembered reading that the work redoing the track was going to be done by apprentices, or guys in the operating trade being supervised by an older, experienced person who was supposed to be pretty good at that type of work. Maybe all that cheap labor paid off,it looks like it. I was there a time or two, saw some pretty good racing.

Poor weather prohibited them from completing the work. Those folks were also going to build a new turn 1 and 2 as well but the terrible weather that spring ruined those plans. So it looks like they found some dude off the street that could run heavy equipment but knew nothing about racing and told him to go to town on turns 3 and 4. He may have been drunk and/or high as well judging by the way he built turn 3.

The people that ran the show after the reconfiguratuon didn't have a clue either. The water truck driver only watered random parts of the track the day of their first show and the dust was causing issues on I-77. Then he got the truck stuck in the pond and they couldn't water the track before the feature. What a cluster.

[BIGSTEVE00]

I seen some really good races at WVMS back in the day when it was the big track. Yes it had its own sprinkler system built into the walls to help water the track. I really wish they didn't butcher it up. I remember going there the night before the DTWC @ Pennsboro which made for one heck of a great weekend. You couldn't beat the terrace seating on the hillside. They'd let you build fires or do pretty much whatever you wanna do. A lot of good memories at that track!!

[J. Steve Davis]

I went to every race at WVMS in 2013, which was the last year they ran and I thought the racing was pretty good. Most wrecks in turn three and four were on the first or second lap. Everyone wanting to get the lead asap. After the first couple laps the racing was good.The track was still awesome fast though. I wish someone would open it back up!