Old Charlotte Motor Speedway

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Now this would have had some elevation changes for a road course!

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Wonder how many years later they finally levelled all of that out? It looks like a wilderness in there.
 
I would absolutely love to see Goodyear develop a tire for this surface. I'd also love to hear the screaming about how lousy the resulting tire is.
Now Denny is going to have to do a podcast to get a hardwood track on the schedule (follow the Nike/ 23XI racing money, Nike going to make a racing tire now).
 
I have a hard time believing a board track could hold up to the weight of today's cars.
If the older cars could tear up asphalt on Dover and Bristol, I can only imagine how a board track would fare with today's car. It wouldn't be pretty.
 
Thank you for that picture. My Dad installed the telephones for the first race and I was born the week after. I remember the big hole in the infield. The area around Cabarrus County has large boulders all around because of a volcano. I remember the sound of tuning the motors before a race and walking through the grandstand tunnel and seeing the 43 and 21 car sitting on the front row.
 
That's crazy stuff!!! I have never seen that. 1.25 track
 
Charlotte Motor Speedway as we know it today, the surface was never made of wood.
 
Yep, I can't believe that you could build that.
 
The original track was in Pineville, North Carolina, some thirty minutes away from Charlotte. I reckon the old Pineville track owners got what was coming to them after shidding on their own people and being too uppity to show them any respect.

Somewhere there was a little unknown boy in Pineville who saw the board track that was too proud for his kind. He went on to live a tragic life without feeling like he belonged anywhete and he died in a "Charlotte" Penitentiary because there wasn't even a prison wanting to identify with Pineville.

Now they are doing it to the children all over again in Concord, North Carolina, Fort Worth, Texas, Avondale, Arizona, and so forth...
 
Now they are doing it to the children all over again in Concord, North Carolina, Fort Worth, Texas, Avondale, Arizona, and so forth . . .

. . . in Joliet, Illinois . . . . until they weren't.
 
I have a hard time believing a board track could hold up to the weight of today's cars.
They would need to use Laminate flooring instead of wood to handle the current cup cars.
It should be kichen or bathroom waterproof anti slip grade laminates to prevent rain delays.

It cant be the smooth laminates either, it needs to have a grit like surface for tire wear.
 
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