Track(s) no longer around you wish you could visit 1st time?
 

Track(s) no longer around you wish you could visit 1st time that you never had the chance of going to?


Jungle Park (IN)
Atomic (TN)
Challenger (PA)

Ascot Park

Ascot,reading,langhorne

Ascot

Hopefully Belle-Clair reopens

That Atomic speedway in Tennessee was a great trip, really high banking, made you think you should put your left foot out till you get up to speed, we had 2 races a year before they leveled the place, had water lines in the top, no water truck made could get around in one piece, Oakridge, TN, where a lot of the Atomic Bomb was designed.

New Bremen

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Manzy
Ascot
While still there. Stoga.

Little Springfield

EDIT: Didn't read the original post very well. I was able to got to Little Springfield when I was a kid. I guess I read it as tracks that are gone that I would love to go to again.

As far as tracks gone that I didn't make it to:

Indiana State Fairgrounds mile
Syracuse
Langhorne
Flemington
New Bremen

You can combine my answer with Oppweld, Charles and Joe

Any board track and New Bremen.

25th st Fairgrounds (Col In)
Columbus Speedway(col in)
Marlboro Raceway (Md)
Hale's Corner Madison (Wi)

Reading
Ascot
Shaheen’s (Little Springfield)

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Jungle Park
Langhorne
Southern Ascot

Bart

Hales Corner
Santa Fe
16th Street
Ascot
Taft Stadium

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I’m fortunate and happy to say that I’ve been to Ascot, Manzanita and New Bremen before they were lost. My biggest regret is that I never made it to Reading to watch USAC sprint cars. The other track I’ve never made it to and probably never will but would like to is the Belleville High Banks.

Itoo have missed a few, Never made it to Langhorne, PA, we lost a local boy there that I rode in the woods with, "Crash " Crockett, I was ready to go, then decided not to, glad I didn't, I think that was an early Big Car, a real up and coming driver, that track claimed far too many, still think of the fun we had in the woods, he had a WW2 Harley 45, didn't bother him, even with a broken leg, he was having fun!

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Ascot, Langhorne, Little Springfield, and Reading.

I would have loved to have gone to Armscamp,Jungle Park, & lil Springfield

Dayton
New Bremen

Hastings motor speedway and the Grand Rapids Speedrome.
Nick Landon

Little Springfield!
Best Regards,
John

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Ascot

St Mary's Speedway in Missouri. That's where my father drove in his first race. I was there as an infant but do not remember it.

Syracuse mile

I'm lucky enough to have spent many nights at Little Springfield. Some watching some driving.

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Nutley Velodrome NJ
Islip NY
Danbury Ct
Reading
Ascot
Little Springfield
Rowley Park South Australia
Sydney Showgrounds Sydney Australia
Langhorne
Jungle Park
16th Street

Surely forgetting a few.....

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Ascot
Indiana State Fairground
Atomic (TN)

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How could I have left off the Nutley Velodrome? Some of you mentioned Atomic in TN. I was lucky enough to see the All Stars there many years ago. It had rained and the air was humid. Track was crazy fast. Joey Saldana turned like 9.9 in time trials. I think it was a third mile. Rick Nichols told the promoter it was the best surface he had seen in years. Feature got rained out.

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Reading
Ascot
Lakewood Ga.

seen Atomic Tn. mentioned a few times and was fortune enough to race there 3 times

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Reading
Ascot

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Jungle Park, Ascot, The 1-mile fairgrounds in Detroit.

Bryan Speedway (Bryan Ohio)
New Breman

Originally Posted by Wayne Davis:
Reading
Ascot
Lakewood Ga.

seen Atomic Tn. mentioned a few times and was fortune enough to race there 3 times

Wow Wayne, that must have been a great experience driving on that track. Loved the surface and the D shape on the front stretch.

I was fortunate to see one late model race there in 1997, Saturday night before Labor Day weekend. Myself and a buddy went to Atomic and were heading to Darlington and the Southern 500 the next day. We drove all night to Darlington and my about 5am, my buddy said let's stop at a truck stop to take a shower. Freshened up, we proceeded to Darlington to see Jeff Gordon win the Winston Million race. And of course, we drove home all night so I could get to the US Nationals drag races on Monday. That was a racing weekend for sure.

Speaking of THE Atomic Speedway, what kind of cars would you call them, when we were there, 6 times, with the tqs, we ran our own show, so we were busy and didn't get to look and watch them much, I must assume they were 4 cylinder, struck me to be a Pinto body on a midget chassis, with AR tires on all 4 corners, really strong motors, bad fast, wish we had learned more about them, I thought nice looking as well, Wayne, anything you can add? Bob

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Warsaw IN (tried once but it was rained out)
Illiana
Lake Geneva WI
Rolling Wheels NY

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Trenton Speedway. id love to see an early '80s indy car take a right turn in the middle of the back shute. also, Rendezvous Bowl in Sister Lakes (MI). they raced midgets in the late 40s and the track is still there ! ! ! ! we have lotsa great memories racing around the old shut down speedway.

Rich M

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Ascot and Manzanita the Nutley Velodrome are the first 3 that come to mind .

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Ascot because the great videos I’ve seen can’t have done it justice. Id also like to see Santa Fe since I’ve been told I missed a good one there too.

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Of the 102 tracks that I have been to over many years, I can't think of any that I knew enough about to regret not seeing a program there. Back around '78, I went to a WoO swing through PA, and one of the races got rained out. I walked up to the track and eyeballed it, and thought it had the potential for a great show. It was one of the smaller tracks on the eastern swing, but can't recall the name.

Also around that time period, I traveled from Winnipeg, Manitoba every fall for the Western World at Manzanita, and then carried on the following weekend to the Pacific Coast Nationals at Ascot. We did this for quite a few years. In late 1989, I moved to So.Cal. and enjoyed Ascot every Saturday night, less than an hours drive from my home. In 1990, they closed. In 2007 I retired and moved to Mesa, AZ. Went to Manzanita anytime they were running 410s. Also about a 45 minute drive from home. They closed in 2009. I have been advised many times since then not to move to Kokomo.

Joe Shaheen's Little Springfield was always a favorite. I saw a handful of races there over the years. If I recall correctly, there was a K-Mart next to turn 3-4, and the cars in the backside of the store parking lot had some cleaning to do after hotlaps.

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Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
Nutley Velodrome NJ
Islip NY
Danbury Ct
Reading
Ascot
Little Springfield
Rowley Park South Australia
Sydney Showgrounds Sydney Australia
Langhorne
Jungle Park
16th Street

Surely forgetting a few.....

I went to Danbury a couple of times after we moved to Ct. in 1966. It had already been paved when I went there (maybe '68?)..... after getting hooked on wild ass dirt tracks in Virginny, I lost interest & didn't go to another race for over 40 years. These were the old modified coupes.
Then I saw dirt track sprint cars in 2010... woohoo! :23:

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Fort Wayne Speedway

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Originally Posted by Daisy's dad:
Joe Shaheen's Little Springfield was always a favorite. I saw a handful of races there over the years. If I recall correctly, there was a K-Mart next to turn 3-4, and the cars in the backside of the store parking lot had some cleaning to do after hotlaps.

Yes it was a K-Mart of off 3-4. My great racing friend Robbie Standridge landed far onto the parking one night. We thought he had hurt himself bad. Think his quote to us was "I'm alright I just need a Budweiser to clear my head up". Lesson for me ... I've drank Budweiser every since that night seeing how the miracle brew helped heal Robbie.

Sorry to stray off topic from the thread title for those offended

Don't be sorry, be glad, at least he was able to take it internally, you didn't have to rub it in.