40°10'30"N 79°43'30"W This half-mile oval started life as a dirt track in 1972, then became a sanctioned NASCAR track in 1989. Speedway and Road Race History reports it was paved at that point ...

Midwest Racing Archives states it opened ... starting life as a half-mile dirt oval for horses. According to Abandoned Online, automobile races began in 1910 before eventually growing into a ...

"As I walk the race ... this track once grew champions ... now it only grows weeds and dead grass," Lawless said. I approach the thick white finish line. I look up to a endless sea of abandoned ...