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 ...

Representative Barb Kniff McCullah of Pella said race tracks could not only face lawsuits over the noise, but for dirt in the air from races held on dirt tracks. “As city development grows out ...