David Umscheid, whom both Zuniga and Upchurch remembered as one of the best drivers to race out there in its day, said Longhorn was the best racing track that [he] ran on.. There wasnt as much room. FOX 4. Alas, not all good things can last forever, no matter how successful, and this speedway was shut down in 1996. With such a successful and massive sport, there are plenty of things that have been forgotten about over its storied history. Jun 28 2011. But, since the Wilkesboro Speedway has shut down, that tarmac has gone neglected. A pair of hydraulic lifts provide extra convenience for both storage and mechanic work, and bevies of racks for tires, parts, and tools provide a professional-level workspace. A shortened version of the piece can be read here. Quarter Horse racing was particularly popular at the time as it remains today throughout the Texas hill country. The big, gold earrings worn by trophy girls, whether they were Miss Miller Genuine Draft or Miss Miller High Life, flowed seamlessly with the plastic gold trophies they handed to the race winners. It didn't have to end this way for I-70 Speedway outside Odessa, Missouri. Between 1954 and 1955 it welcomed three Formula 1 races, watched by a throng of thousands of spectators. GB. The track opened as Thunderhill Raceway for the 1998 season, its facilities being nearly four decades newer than those at Longhorn. This story was originally written for Reporting Texas at the University of Texas at Austin. And that really brings a important emotional component to the show. You had to qualify to be in the feature race, because we couldnt put all of the cars that were there on the track at once., When those cars were out at Longhorn, Upchurch said the grandstands were absolutely packed., [The stands] couldnt hold any more, said Upchurch, who also called races at the old Texas World Speedway in College Station and now-closed short tracks in San Antonio. The crowds still came, but they didnt fill as many seats as in decades earlier. This group is for all sorts of Retired Racing Vehicles and Abandoned Race (Ghost) Tracks; stock cars, drag cars, land speed, sprint cars, open wheel, road course, Baja, race trucks, motorcycles,. I will share this abandoned dirt oval I found near the area I was in earlier, Latrobe, PA. To say Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a fan of old race tracks is an understatement. A. Quarter Horse racing was particularly popular at the time as it remains today throughout the Texas hill country. The atmosphere was always charged and fun. Like plenty of other short tracks across the country, there were areas where Longhorn lacked proper safety precautions. It makes me sad. Texas World Speedway is rapidly approaching "Abandoned" status. Then, as the 1990s came to a close, the real problem set ina problem far outside of Longhorns control. Throughout the early days, male race winners sported their high-waisted, light-wash jeans and thick mustaches while standing next to sash-wearing trophy girls with short pumps, gold hoop earrings and voluminous, roller-curled hair. The composition of this photo paired with the exposure and light conditions make for a truly eerie and somber photo of this abandoned NASCAR racetrack that hasn't seen life in years. by Chris Stuber Feb 22, 2023, 7:28 am. The Bristol dirt race and COTA were a few weeks ago. Another three sets of the once-packed grandstands at Longhorn remain, rusted, contorted with age and visibly fighting off the inevitable forces of overgrown weeds and gravity that continue to overtake them. If only there was some kind of racing action to get a perfect view of. In its day, former Longhorn Speedway PA announcer Neil Upchurch said the tracks premiere Late Model eventsone of the most expensive and therefore exclusive divisions in short-track racing, which features stock cars that appear to the casual eye to be a few years behind the current-generation NASCAR race carswould pull around two dozen race entries on any given Friday night in the late 1980s and into the 90s. Progress. Modern Era Defunct They've just been filled with emptiness, decay, with every bit of the infrastructure turning derelict, facing the inevitable and relentless touch of time. The biggest barrier for Dale Earnhardt Jr.s NASCAR Xfinity team to make the jump to Cup, Alex Bowman reveals the easter eggs hidden in his Dale Earnhardt Jr.-designed Nashville paint scheme, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick share their predictions and hopes for Jimmie Johnson's first Indy 500, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Business partners Jerry Green and Charles Hester took the speedway over just three years after the racing group did in 1971, promising exciting, fast-moving shows and kids nights with free rides in figure-eight races. For that reason, qualifications actually fulfilled their name. It was strictly a business decision, Upchurch said. Even then, Upchurch said none of those blanks in racing were noteworthy in his memory. Construction of OKSFS ca. We just had an amazing weekend at Nashville Superspeedway, and I think the two can coexist in the same market at the same calendar year. Photos are not mine and info may not be 100% correct (I do my best). If you were at the Myrtle Beach Grand Prix in 1993 you might have got your ass kicked. Although the deed to the circuit, which includes two configurations measuring 1.3-miles and 1.7-miles respectively, isn't included with the purchase of the house, unparalleled access is up for offer. It was built in 2005 and features modern two-story construction, the first floor of which is taken up entirely by a six-car garageoh, and a two-car porte-cochere, which is fancy-talk for the spot you leave your car to be valeted at a hotel. All eight episodes of Lost Speedways Season 2 willpremiere Thursday, so For The Win spoke with Dale Jr. about the show, new tracks on NASCARs schedule in 2021 and the track he hopes is eventually added to the lineup. 12 14 The proposal never came to fruition and the property was sold at a sheriff's sale for $205,000 in 1979. The race cars, often wearing few company logos and culminating in a weeks worth of ones own hard work and grease rather than sponsorship funding, used to head into the first turn at Longhorn in front of another set of occupied grandstands. In the 1970's, the AQHA recognized race tracks in Lubbock, Colleyville, Columbus, Midland, Sonora, Del Rio, Goliad, and Uvalde. Road America Indianapolis Motor Speedway's road course are coming up. This famous track played host to NASCAR's top series from 1958-1988. I guess I will. The visionary behind this track was not the government, but . On the front straightaway at Longhorn, the only structure that remains is a skeleton of the flag stand. That thing? he said. Never knew anybody that could say, I was there and saw it, right? The stands are empty, there are no cars, it's overgrown with foliage. Let's just hope that they didn't forget to get everything out of the fridge and freezer. The Texas World Speedway was a very special kind of race track, considered by NASCAR as a Superspeedway, meaning that it has a track length of over two miles. Most of our shows, Im like, boots on the ground, cant wait to get there, excited. I dont know that they ever stopped selling ticketsI never heard that one. The vibrant green and blue of this photo, along with the rich oranges of sunset, make for quite a stunning photo. They havent raced there since 1984, and its a short track. Who had a bad race: Tyler Reddick, who ran the Cup race earlier in the day, finished 36th in the 38-car field with a damaged car. Nowadays, at this NASCAR speedway that's been completely forgotten, the fastest thing on the track is the growing vines that have come up over the wall and down onto the tarmac. Of course, both Mahoning and Oak Grove are racinos. It failed to perform on seat sales, paired with a big amount of issues with ownership and was left to decay in the early 2000s. If you had all the powers in NASCAR and the ability to snap your fingers and make any track out there suitable for hosting race, what track would you add to the Cup schedule? Zunigas husband was never into racing as a kid, but will ask her where things used to be. Shell give him short, direct yes-and-no answers. Is it all about the history, or is there something more to it for you? This speedway hasn't seen a race in decades now, it closed in 1995. And its just crazy to think when you stand in there, youre like, I cant believe this is sitting here. This is easier on you than These lanes bank left into oblivion, forever more to resonate with the haunted echoes of racers and cars that no longer run laps. The old track is so stifled by tall, dead grass that it becomes hard to tell fence from weeds after a while. Its a two-mile race track, and most of the Last Speedways are half-mile short tracks [and] local dirt tracks in the woods right next door, down the road. My dad had a lot of history there. The fastest road course in the U.S.? Its been that way for nearly two decades now. Indeed, it is not a good year, as the mostly gone sign would say, and there hasn't been a good year for many, many in a row. With that, the demise of Longhorn Speedway became final. And so that helped me when we went to these other race tracks to tap into the community, and see what they thought and felt about this race track, and what it meant to them when it was successful, and how they miss it, how they experienced so many good things there. A highly recommended stop. More Recent View. You had to drive a little differently on the different ends of the race track. In 1961, late model stock car racing began on the half-mile oval track. SRW Winternationals Weekend now a Qualifying race for ALL Classes! The YouTube series called "Dark Exploration Films" did a deep dive of the former race track located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.There is little left of the race track's NASCAR legacy. In Kentucky, Thunder Ridge closed in 2017; its license was eventually transferred to Oak Grove, which opened in 2019. And so we could look at the history and the races from a decade ago, but no one could really guess. From the aerial view you can see the original 1/2 mile horse track, the 1/4 mile paved oval was built inside of the horse track. I didnt expect that. 84 talking about this. So that to me is my favorite part because Ive been looking at these race tracks on this Google map that I made for over a decade, and that aerial view is all Ive got, right? North Wilkesboro Speedway was once one of the biggest and firsthubs for NASCAR racing, and it was just so for many years on end. Then there's the composition of the photo, thoughtfully taken just after the stadium seating ends. It didnt feel as homey as [the racing] once did, Zuniga said. I've decided to pick four examples of race meetings being cancelled or postponed, with three of them being due to a health scare. Fast forward to the '60s and '70s, during the sport's peak, and up to 50,000 people were sitting or standing at Sandown Motor Circuit in Melbourne, the country's premium race track. I think its gotten things freshened up a little bit, created some new energy in the fan base. View all photos. Of course, there's more than just that to a race. Its good stuff. He loves them. And I had so many great experiences there and spent so many years of my life racing there, so that was tough, and [I] didnt anticipate sort of going through those emotions. The reduction and the closure of [asphalt] tracks has been a very slow cancer to creep along and eventually, we have one go down permanently.. But, there hasn't been any racing in sight for years, and since then the second story wide-windowed hasn't had a view of anything. This is the Phoenix Trotting Park - a huge complex in the United States that was built as a horse racing track in 1964. 20 Thunderhill Raceway As packed as California can get, being one of the most popular states to live at in the US, there's plenty of room for race tracks. The Texas racing scene from all those years ago has become a blur for those who used to frequent the track, and they cant remember whether Terry Labonte, a native Texan and future Cup Series champion, raced at Longhorn. His passion is the backbone of "Lost Speedways," his Peacock series that explores shuttered, dilapidated and abandoned race tracks around the country, as the (mostly) retired NASCAR driver. And that might be the track surface, but also kind of wandering into the infield or outside of the track as well to find any kind of evidence of the racing and the history and the physical evidence of the track. When they were exporting the product to their clientele, they had modified their cars to go extra fast in case the cops caught them and came after them. always trying to use the message boards, whose URL links often dry up. The crowd wasnt as big; the atmosphere wasnt the same. RETURN TO THE MAIN PAGE ET March 4 at Las Vegas Motor . I could see the demise of racing in the southwest even happening way back then, he said, recalling that he wore out several cars to drive from his home to the announcing jobs he held simultaneously in Austin, San Antonio and College Station. This list contains photos of abandoned and disused tracks that have mostly been left to nature. There were plenty more. The half-mile Meyer Speedway in Houston, which hosted a 1971 Cup Series race in which Bobby Allison and Richard Petty started on the front row in front of 9,000 spectators, went down in the late 1970s. Thats the first race track I came to watch races. Its just sad.. Provided by The Oklahoman. Description: FOrmerly a 3/8 mi Clay Oval, NOW CLOSED and sold to the city of Lufkin. Our list of abandoned tracks could also include another impressive project that was supposed to draw in the most famous teams in the world. But if you look down the gravel road leading to that flea market and strain your eyes just enough, some faint white lines will come into viewlines that used to mark the lanes on a race track. The 1/8-mile dragstrip, located in Dyersburg, about an hour north of Memphis, is being sold in virtually turn-key condition, including a brand new computer system and LED scoreboards that he recently invested $30,000 in. Just past that line, spectators would see a Miller logo painted across the asphalt. The entire subject of the photo is about endings, as this is an abandoned and lost NASCAR speedway that's been shut down. After years of relying on the old USGS All Rights Reserved. The superspeedway had 22 degrees banking in the corners.The Texas World Speedway opened in November 1969 under the name Texas International Speedway and was an almost exact copy of the Michigan International Speedway.Unfortunately, during the 1980s the track fell into a state of disrepair and NASCAR and the IndyCars moved the Texas World Speedway from their calendar. FOX 13 News ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The last greyhound race came two years after Floridians voted to close the tracks. Want to Visit? Over the years, Longhorn has joined hundreds of other race tracks across the U.S. and become whats commonly known as a ghost tracka racing facility that, for whatever reason, eventually closed its gates and was left to crumble. Dale Earnhardt Jr. loves North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina, despite its dilapidated condition and desperate need for a makeover. The leaseholders gave up the track. They run 5-7 car classes, and each puts on a great show packed with action. Plants, animals, nature, it all starts to come back in a way that isn't possible with humans. But also Metrolina meant so much to this community, and when it was successful and thriving in the mid-70s, the racing community knew that was the place to be. Jimmie's OldTime Site From how Upchurch and Zuniga described it, there wasnt much of a reason to sit down. In this same period, only three new tracks have opened: Pinnacle in Michigan - which, as you'll see, closed after only two years - Presque Isle in Pennsylvania and Running Aces (harness) in Minnesota. It was a really good speedway, said Denise Beier Zuniga, who regularly attended everything from weekly races to demolition derbies, figure-eight racing and stunt shows at Longhorn as a child after moving down from Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Thank you to Tommy Azopardi, Dr. Charles Graham, Tommy Oliphant, and Wanda O'Banan for providing information on the historical racetracks of Texas. ), Pompano Park, Florida, closed 2022 after 58 years of abusing horses, Arlington Park, Illinois, closed 2021 after 94 years of abusing horses, Calder Race Course, Florida, closed 2020 after 49 years of abusing horses, Scarborough Downs, Maine, closed 2020 after 70 years of abusing horses, Bluegrass Downs, Kentucky, closed 2019 after 35 years of abusing horses, Suffolk Downs, Massachusetts, closed 2019 after 84 years of abusing horses, Portland Meadows, Oregon, closed 2019 after 73 years of abusing horses, Hazel Park, Michigan, closed 2018 after 69 years of abusing horses, Les Bois Park, Idaho, closed 2016 after 46 years of abusing horses, Atlantic City Race Course, New Jersey, closed 2015 after 69 years of abusing horses, Balmoral Park, Illinois, closed 2015 after 89 years of abusing horses, Maywood Park, Illinois, closed 2015 after 69 years of abusing horses, Sports Creek Raceway, Michigan, closed 2015 after 28 years of abusing horses, Hollywood Park, California, closed 2013 after 75 years of abusing horses, Mount Pleasant Meadows, Michigan, closed 2013 after 28 years of abusing horses, Eureka Downs, Kansas, closed 2011 after 108 years of abusing horses, Atokad Downs, Nebraska, closed 2011 after 55 years of abusing horses, Northwest Montana Fair, closed 2011 after unknown number of years abusing horses, Yellowstone Downs, Montana, closed 2011 after 65 years of abusing horses, Blue Ribbon Downs, Oklahoma, closed 2010 after 47 years of abusing horses, Dayton Days, Washington, closed 2010 after 122 years of abusing horses, Manor Downs, Texas, closed 2010 after 20 years of abusing horses, Pinnacle Race Course, Michigan, closed 2010 after 2 years of abusing horses, Waitsburg, Washington, closed 2010 after 99 years of abusing horses, Walla Walla Fair, Washington, closed 2010 after 144 years of abusing horses, Western Montana Fair, closed 2010 after 96 years of abusing horses, Anthony Downs, Kansas, closed 2009 after 105 years of abusing horses, Rockingham Park, New Hampshire, closed 2009 after 103 years of abusing horses, Solano Fair, California, closed 2009 after 58 years of abusing horses, Bay Meadows, California, closed 2008 after 74 years of abusing horses, Jackson Harness Raceway, Michigan, closed 2008 after 60 years of abusing horses, Great Lakes Downs, Michigan, closed 2007 after 18 years of abusing horses, Rochester Fair, New Hampshire, closed 2007 after 73 years of abusing horses, Woodlands Racecourse, Kansas, closed 2007 after 17 years of abusing horses, Northampton Fair, Massachusetts, closed 2005 after 62 years of abusing horses, Saginaw Valley Downs, Michigan, closed 2005 after 25 years of abusing horses, Sportsmans Park, Illinois, closed 2002 after 70 years of abusing horses, Brockton Fair, Massachusetts, closed 2001 after 60 years of abusing horses, Garden State Park Racetrack, New Jersey, closed 2001 after 59 years of abusing horses, Playfair Race Course, Washington, closed 2001 after 100 years of abusing horses, Lone Oak Park, Oregon, closed 2000 after 67 years of abusing horses, Americas Dead Racehorses, State By State, Track By Track. +40.23481, -104.97875 (decimal degrees) 4014'05" N, 10458'44" W (degreesminutes'seconds") Approximate UTM coordinates. Now, there's no hope that any car could go safely around this track at two hundred miles per hour, or even at highway speeds. While any gearhead would kill for a garage like Jay Leno's, an even more perfect piece of real estate has popped up in the Lone Star State of Texas. No regulation accompanied this legislation and in 1909 the legislature voted to prohibit race track gambling all together. "Brush tracks" were operated in Brady, Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, Boerne, Hilltop Lakes, Laredo, Seguin, San Angelo, Junction, Wichita Falls, Clear Park, and Bandera. NASCAR has had quite a storied history with America since the very beginning. There was an effort to revive it again in 1970, at which point it . So we found the person that had witnessed it and told us all about it. Nearly 20 years after Longhorns closure, the earth underneath its racing surface is even beginning to overtake the track itself. And theres so many of them, where Im like, Man, I wish I could see it, be there and see it and look at it.. Riverside International Raceway was a 2.62 mile road course in California's Moreno Valley. This is unfortunate, you know that this is not going to be here anymore. The [decline] of racing in Texas was, in some cases, so slow that it was hardly noticeable, Upchurch said. But Upchuchhe seems to have been more expectant of the outcome. RETURN TO THE ALL LINKS PAGE. What impact do you think NASCAR's new schedule is having on the sport? Not far underneath the low-flying airplanes descending into Austin-Bergstrom International Airport lies the old quarter-mile Longhorn Speedway, a former local short track which resides, defunct. I wasnt there at the time, but I know one time a sprint car, out of control, went over the turn-one fence and into the pits where a bunch of people were, Upchurch said. There are no main grandstands and there is no press box, giving a clear view from the highway to parts of the backstretch asphalt if youre looking hard enough. Once these stands were filled with tens of thousands of fans, crowds, and crowds of people passionate about NASCAR, all of them cheering and roaring as the cars passed, as new racers took the lead, even as they crashed. I know that place. And then the day we go and walk into that track, it was like a funeral. But Upchurch said the race track continued to operate for over a year after Thunderhill opened, only for its management to realize that the track just couldnt compete. by ScottKo in RacingIn News. This is what I was dealing with. The Lattimore Valley Raceway hosted auto racing back in the 1920s and 1930s. I dont know these things when I sign up to race in the XFINITY series. However, the cost of the land purchase and refurbishing the track will cost millions depending on the track condition and location. These old signs seem to hold more of meaning after they're abandoned, as these signs give a glimpse into the knowledge of the past, the ways of life, styles, and more. But then again, he seems to have made this abandoned NASCAR track his home. I would probably add Nashville Fairgrounds [Speedway]. And so that was a cool story to actually hear as fact instead of just like this idea. Apr 22, 2022 179 Dislike Share Circuits of the past 22.4K subscribers Texas World Speedway - Abandoned Race Track USA In this Circuits of the past video, we show you the abandoned Texas. Located directly next to Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, Texas, this home is a 1,786-square-foot paradise for speed nuts and driving enthusiasts. NEXT: The series races at 4:30 p.m. NASCAR just raced at Nashville. 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