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Track Type and layout Location Map Named race(s) Season(s) Notes Asheville Speedway: 0.54-mile paved oval Weaverville, North Carolina: Western North Carolina 500 (1958–1969) 1957–1969: Held races from 1951 to 1957 as a dirt oval. Now the site of North Buncombe High School Augusta International Raceway: 0.500-mile paved oval Augusta, Georgia
The landowner, Julian S. Carr, raced horses, and built a half mile horse racing track on the site. [3] Bill France noticed the horse racing track and expanse of open land while piloting his airplane. [3] On the site of the earlier horse track, he built a 0.9-mile dirt track in September 1947, two months before NASCAR was organized.
The Asheville–Weaverville Speedway near Weaverville, North Carolina a site for NASCAR races in both the Grand National and Winston Cup Series eras. From 1951 to 1969, races at the track were won by drivers like Richard Petty, Bob Flock, Fonty Flock, Lee Petty, Rex White, and Fireball Roberts.
Rockingham Speedway and Entertainment Complex (formerly known as North Carolina Speedway from 1998 to 2007 and North Carolina Motor Speedway from 1965 to 1996) is a 1-mile (1.6 km) D-shaped oval track in Rockingham, North Carolina. The track has held a variety of events since its opening in 1965, primarily races sanctioned by NASCAR.
That race was won by Troy Ruttman in an Offy powered Kuzma. From 1953 the track was known as Raleigh Speedway. NASCAR races were held at the track from 1953 to 1958. On the 1/4-mile (0.4 km) infield track there were weekly Modified and Sportsman races on Fridays. Occasionally, the Sportsman and Modified's ran on the one-mile (1.6 km) track.
The complications forced the track’s first major race, the NASCAR-sanctioned 1960 World 600, to be postponed from May 29 to June 19. [44] Longtime NASCAR mechanic Smokey Yunick criticized the location, remarking, "a giant mistake. If they'd have searched North Carolina for the worst possible place to build a racetrack, that's where they built ...
Along with its exhibition Cup Series race, the track has also hosted a third-tier NASCAR Truck Series race since its revival. [157] Until 1996, the facility ran two points-paying NASCAR Cup Series race weekends for most of its existence: the spring First Union 400 and the fall Tyson Holly Farms 400. The former, traditionally known as the Gwyn ...
In total, there were 3 tracks under the Concord Speedway name, this facility being the third. The first track to use the Concord Speedway moniker was built in the 1950s and was built off of Poplar Tent Rd. – located at the end of Old Speedway Dr. NW, this track held seven NASCAR Grand National (now known as the NASCAR Cup Series) events between 1956 and 1959.