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on: 10-04-2005
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North Wilkesboro Speedway.
It sits as a "Ghost Track." Completely abandoned. The last Cup race was run there, everyone left, and no one came back...well, almost no one.
Jack Roush used the track last year as a test-bed for his "Gong Show", a competition with over 20 drivers to see who would get to drive his #99 truck, the winner was Todd Kluever. |
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10-04-2005 @ 08:47:37 PM |
Posted By : DiRF |
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http://www.jayski.com/cts/gongshow2004.htm
It's surreal seing a brand-spakin' new Craftsman Truck speeding around a faded track stuck in the mid-'90s.
Why was NWS abandoned? Greed, plain and simple. Bob Bahre, owner of New Hampshire International Speedway, wanted a second date for his track. Bruton Smith, owner of about half the NASCAR tracks, wanted to free up yet another date on the schedule to get another date for one of his various tracks.
They co-bought North Wilkesboro, and then shut it down. It's a damn shame, this was one of the oldest and most revered tracks on the Cup circuit... and due to bad communication between Bahre and Smith, they won't even come together to pay to "update" the track so it could possibly host Craftsman Truck, Busch, ARCA, or maybe even USAR Hooter's Pro Cup races...
It was a great short track. But it now lies forgotten, except for the good people at http://www.savethespeedway.net |
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10-04-2005 @ 08:51:09 PM |
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say good riddance, history is one thing, but the track was simply too small for the speeds and 32 car fields of the modern nascar circut. Those who really like short track racing have Bristol and Martinsville, but I never found the racing here to be all that exciting |
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10-05-2005 @ 01:12:52 AM |
Posted By : Dadol21 |
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Tear the concrete up and use it as a dirt track. :D |
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10-13-2005 @ 10:08:29 PM |
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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I think at some point, they used this track for a NASCAR video game commercial, because I noticed that the walls looked pretty rust streaked in the TV ad and wondered where the hell they found a track in that bad a shape.... |
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11-10-2007 @ 08:20:50 AM |
Posted By : Skid |
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Quite fascinating, really. |
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