The return of North Wilkesboro Speedway, NASCAR's most famous ghost track.
Back in February 2020, officials from Wilkes County in North Carolina announced that they were trying to reach Speedway Motorsports ownership in order to discuss reviving North Wilkesboro Speedway. It looked like there was very little chance of it happening. I recall tweeting as much at the time. This was NASCAR's most famous ghost track, after all, deteriorating since the big show left in the late 1990s.
. Volunteers and workers from Bristol Motor Speedway joined Dale Jr. and his team, bringing out landscaping and track-sweeping equipment so they could get it clean enough to be scanned. The scan was successfully completed just as virtual racing was ramping up due to the cancellation of in-person sporting events amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
As I’m sitting in traffic I see people getting out of their cars to negotiate with the locals to park in their driveways. Others hunt for some space far enough from the road to park their cars and leave them there just so they can make the walk to the track. I decide to continue creeping up the road and after about thirty minutes of sitting in traffic I reach a farm field that has been converted into an impromptu parking lot.
The drivers settled into a rhythm as the race reaches the middle point so I decide to make my way back to those food trucks I saw upon entering and try to decide where I could find the shortest line. I eventually picked one that had typical burger and hot dog fare but as I reach the window to order, I see that almost half the menu has been covered because the items have sold out.
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