Ghost tracks
 

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tracks that have gone away

This one is located very close to me but I have never been there, yet. Saved as a forrest preserve/park.

http://www.meadowdaleraceway.homestead.com/



A coworker raced late model cars here into the 80's
http://santafespeedwaymemories.homestead.com/
The track was sold to housing developers :mad:

I forgot this one.
http://www.lakegenevaraceway.com/
Housing developement too.

There are portions of the 'old' Road America that are now county roads. Of course, RA is still alive and well... It's fun driving the roads near there that so many take for granted knowing that at one time, the racing greats were pounding down that pavement.

Eric

Here’s a thread from another forum on abandoned racetracks. It’s a great read if you have some time (250+ replies).

http://forums.thecarlounge.net/zerothread?id=2854313&page=1

It’s sad to see how many racetracks have gone away due to owners selling the land for housing developments.

Thank you Stanley. Very, very cool thread!

MAR, Mid American Raceway in Wentzville Missouri. This track was just West of St. Louis and a very nice track in its day.

I spend many a weekend at MAR and raced open wheel and production there for almost 10 years back in the 1970's. This is where Dorsey Schroeder of Speed fame got his start.

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Mid America Raceways

Mid America Raceways was a 1200' dragstrip located near Wentzville, Missouri. The facility also featured a 2.89 mile course which passed out of service quite some time before the dragstrip shut down.

The road course was highly regarded, with varying elevation changes, a very long straight, and ten corners, 7 right and 3 left turns. There were 11 flag stations, #11 being on the straight after the driveover bridge near the end of the dragstrip. The dragstrip also had its run-off area downhill, so there was a strong need for good brakes.

This facility was torn down at the end of 2005, apparently sold for development.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1164361183.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1164361265.jpg

Cleaned up a bit..

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1164362660.jpg

Steve,

You are HIRED! Send me the bill! :)

Thanks,

Joe

My pleasure - right click to save it!

google earth has it, maybe it's still there?http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1164376152.jpg
or this was pre dozer:(

5,

Its still there but its a subdivision now. No racing there in the last 25 years or so as far as I know.

This ghost track is close to my heart, Crystal Palace race track on the site of Crystal Palace park.

http://www.cocgb.dircon.co.uk/2003%2..._Race-Circ.jpg

This track was in use up untill 1973, both my parents spectated there and more recently a small section of the track was re opened for once yearly sprint events, staged betwean 1997 and 2000. No chance now of returning it to being a race circuit, its deep in the heart of a large residential area in South London and parts of the old circuit have been narrowed to become cycle paths.

If you look at the aerial photo below you can still see the basic track outline.

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=534500&Y=171000&scale=10 000&width=700&height=400&gride=&gridn=&lang=&db=fr eegaz&coordsys=gb