For those of you with to much time on your hands

Abandoned race tracks

https://www.motor1.com/news/716671/10-abandoned-google-race-tracks/

 

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Ski

 

This brings up a curious question. What tracks have you ridden or raced on that no longer exist.
For me its
PBIR or Moroso
Walt Disney World Speedway - took an Indy car on their 4 lap follow the leader fan drive. They made me back off twice for tailing the "pro" driver too close.

 

Not surprised to see Greenwood first on this list. Supposedly it was used as a reference track for an Gran Turismo fantasy track at one point.

Iowa is really starved for a paved circuit. Not enough money or population for one, I guess.

 

Did they finally let Mud-America sink back into the clay out there in Council Bluffs?

 

Pretty much. I think they had the track open for cars for a while. I did a track day down there in like 2017 and they closed it to bikes shortly after.

 

Never much cared for the track layout, but dammit I was undefeated in the pit bike races on my YSR, until they started letting the bigger dirty bikes compete.

 

It was another Alan Wilson track iirc… so sucked should have been in the name… I only raced there once in 05 for Kawi money… didn’t like it either

 

Here's one with some history, and a personal connection (scroll down to Marlboro Motor Raceway): https://www.motor1.com/news/709421/abandoned-racetracks-google-earth-motor1-readers/

This is where Penske supposedly got his start, was killed off when Summit Point opened and SCCA moved their sanctioning there, and where I supposedly went to races with my uncle, but too young to remember.

Coveralls that got my uncle slapped in the back of the head by an already way too serious Roger P.:

 

Damn...ran at Texas World Speedway in '82 following a 6 hr. at Woody Creek Colorado. Had to join WERA to be on that track the weekend before Daytona that year. Prior to that, I had never even heard of them. Precedes Ev and Sean's years (I think?).

 

Is Oak Hill in TX still operating?

 

Tracks I have raced that we can no longer race. Wentzville, IRP, Memphis, East St Louis, Rockingham, Road Atlanta before being "fixed", Road America before being fixed.

 

Anyone else here ever race at the old Mountain View track in Colorado?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MNiv7Yj3ajHmR5r59
It's still there, but abandoned.
Or Bonneville raceway, way back before it was bought and became Rocky Mountain Raceway and they only kept the drag strip and oval running?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2WiXnjNAUBkbtSv5

Very little left of the old course and dragstrip, now warehouses sit on the oval and start of the dragstrip.

Pikes Peak International Raceway looks to still exist, I don't know if it is used for any motorcycle racing these days.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9d97RNb7mA9g6fLs6

 

Took my Penguin School at Bridgehampton in 1995. Such an amazing riders track.

The dirt pit area would probably make Broome stroke out!

My profile pic is T1 just after the bridge!

 

No it is gone now

 

That's the track where Robbie Jensen wadded up the Tularis.

 

yeah we both bitched about it to each other at Road America that year

 

It's not on this year's MRA schedule - it used to be for years. I never raced there, but I used to cornerwork there a lot. There's at least one event there with these guys:
ROUND 4: PIKES PEAK INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY — LegionSBK

Some people love PPIR. As long as HPR is open, I have no desire at all to go to there.

Not sure if there's anything left of Second Creek. There might be some traces of Continental Divide raceway near Centennial. The track in La Junta is still there, but no motorcycle racing.

 

Sad...1st track I ever saw my bike do a end over end

And we could team up and just call the dude for $100 a day private track day