List of Abandoned, Disused and Lost NASCAR Tracks

I have decided to look at the tracks that will be no longer used in a NASCAR race in the List of Abandoned, Disused and Lost NASCAR race Tracks.
A huge thanks to racersreunion.com who without their pictures I wouldn't have been able to make my video. They explore abandoned tracks especially NASCAR tracks and discuss them.

[@areasevenpro]

Someone should make a NASCAR video game with all these classic tracks, just like Papyrus did with NASCAR Legends nearly two decades ago.

[@JasonNation72]

Three tracks that didn't make sense to go to waste - Riverside, Texas World Speedway, and North Wilkesboro.

[@johnberg12]

I-70 is back up & running as a 3/8th dirt track. Ran practice there last night & it is awesome!

[@blueberry-bananasundae]

you forgot Air Base Speedway, one of the most forgotten tracks

[@joestephan1111]

Thank you for including Heidelberg Raceway near Pittsburgh, not far from my family roots. Though I never lived there any visit meant the races first stop. I've been to speedways half-way 'round the world and some of the best racing I've seen has been at Heidelberg. That includes a 500 lap ARCA race on the half-mile dirt.

[@bobby-ov9qn]

Went to a couple of those tracks in VA and NC when I was a kid. Sad to be reminded as to what happened to them.

[@barry7413]

There was another dirt track that closed in the mid to late '50s. It was located by what is now I-85 and Little Rock Road in Charlotte, NC. I lived in the neighborhood adjoining it and remember watching the races through the wood fence. All trucking and industrial property now.

[@bbaraider]

I remember going to the Mesa Marin track back in the 70's. Met Rick and Roger Mears there! Nice vid!!

[@m4catky]

Field getting smaller, stands can't get filled! No better time for NASCAR to come home to its roots and bring back these speedways our heroes drove on. Create some new memories at these historical tracks.

[@joestephan1111]

Portland also hosted NASCAR Winston West series races. In-between in was a drive-in theater. Saugus was also a regular Winston West stop. A NASCAR-based episode of Dukes of Hazard was filmed there. Like Martinsville, Asheville started off dirt then was paved. Sacramento Fairgrounds hosted Pacific Coast Late Models races which became Winston West not Cup. Lakewood often hosted car and motorcycle racing on the same bill. Langhorne, in it's short straights, one mile dirt form was taken in a near perfect circle. Paul Goldsmith is the only racer to win there on two wheels & four (same for Daytona's beach races). When it was paved late in the game it was expanded to 1.5 miles with a truly straight back stretch and a curved front straight, like a tri-oval. Notice the Jaguars in the Linden field. They won a couple of different early road races. NASCAR had foreign cars racing long before the Toyotas. There was a mid-50s Martinsville dirt race that had early Corvettes & two seater Thunderbirds competing. Tim Flock drove a Mercedes 300SL coupe. One Langhorne race had a VW Beetle competing. The commonly used Marchbank photo looks like Darlington to me. I've never seen a photo from Marchbank that shows a canopy over the stands. When Asheville was paved they originally had dirt & paved tracks together. If I remember, the dirt track was the inner oval. For many years Mesa Marin was a regular stop on the Winston West and Southwest Tour schedules. It hosted the first truck demonstration races that became the NASCAR series when they proved feasible. I believe it was the Spartanburg track where ABC's Wide World of Sports covered an only time on TV dirt track Cup race. Thanks for your obviously huge effort. I hope my input helps. 😎

[@kattmann5056]

One minor correction is the Tampa Florida track that was owned by Frank Dery and known as Golden Gate.Many great races on Friday nights at the gate. Fierce competition and a good car count. We were based out of Sunshine speedway across the bay in St. Pete just reopened!

[@williamroberts1365]

My Dad used to go to races at

[@45pdx]

Great Job on the video and the history! I was just curious about old tracks that nascar used to race on and found this. Growing up near Portland Or most people are not into these things like I am. In the late 90's I went to Portland SpeedWay a few times to watch the Winston West Series. So much fun in those days before they ripped out the asphalt to make it a dirt track before closing. A more up to date status on the site is yes it closed in 2002, sat empty for many years and now is a Trucking company "Old Dominion Freight" the only signs of a race track around there now is some of the old fencing up on the main road that used to block the view so you couldn't pull over and watch the races for free.

[@christopherwinter2099]

What's sad about this is that there's only one Nascar dirt track left that's still used, Viking speedway had it's last Nascar track event in '99 the year my dad started racing Wissota. Which is what series they run here only track in Minnesota I think that was a Nascar track.

[@beboy12003]

That was a amazing video. I didn't know there were so many racetracks. I especially didn't know how much New York was a player in nascar's growth. And the fact that the New York state fairgounds had stopped racing there. I knew about that track, but I didn't know it was closed. thank you for this video.

[@suprchickn7745]

I live two miles away from the defunct Powell Speedway now. That area is completely unrecognizable now and I had no idea a cup race was run there in the 50s. Great but sad video. We lost our beloved Columbus Motor Speedway a few years ago now.

[@richardcrane9899]

Nazareth had two tracks that closed up one dirt one asphalt, Reading and Flemington were two of the best dirt tracks to go to and race on , was there when Mike Garbac was killed at Reading on the front stretch terrible impact ! Raced Flemington with URC once wow those g forces were something else !

[@jmrcs2935]

RIP New York State Fairgrounds Moody Mile !!!

[@troynov1965]

Riverside was a cool ass track, saw lots of good racing there.

[@jedistreaming4006]

So I've visited Mall's in recent years that were sites of NASCAR tracks, how awesome and sad at the same time it is.