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Ghost tracks
Tracks that are gone.
Places that held a national-series stock car race and do not run anymore. The record on most of them is thin, so it gets kept here.
This week
College Station, Texas  ·  Eight Cup races, 1969–1981
Texas had a two-mile superspeedway built off the same blueprint as Michigan, and almost nobody remembers it. Texas World Speedway opened in College Station in 1969, hosted eight Cup races, and Richard Petty won three of them. By 2017 it was closed and storing flood-damaged cars. More than half the site is a subdivision now.
The register · 24 tracks
IL
Chicago, Illinois  ·  One Cup race, July 1956
GA
Hephzibah, Georgia  ·  1962–1969 in Grand National
SC
Spartanburg, South Carolina  ·  1953–1966 in Grand National
SC
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina  ·  1958–2020
VA
Roanoke County, Virginia  ·  1950–1971
FL
Jacksonville, Florida  ·  1947–1973
NC
Charlotte, North Carolina  ·  Closed · track still standing
NH
Loudon, New Hampshire  ·  1965–1989
VA
Chesterfield County, Virginia  ·  1959–2020
CA
Ontario, California  ·  1970–1980
FL
Daytona Beach, Florida  ·  Last race February 1958
NY
Islip, New York  ·  Closed 1984
GA
Savannah, Georgia  ·  1960–1981
NJ
Trenton, New Jersey  ·  Closed 1980
GA
Byron, Georgia  ·  1966–1971 in Grand National
GA
Atlanta, Georgia  ·  1917–1979
NC
Charlotte, North Carolina  ·  1949–1956
PA
Middletown Township, Pennsylvania  ·  1926–1971
SC
Cayce, South Carolina  ·  1951–1975
NC
Weaverville, North Carolina  ·  1950–1970
NC
Raleigh, North Carolina  ·  Closed 1958 · demolished 1967
CA
Moreno Valley, California  ·  1957–1989
NC
Hillsborough, North Carolina  ·  1948–1968
Every one of these had a last race that nobody in the stands knew was the last one.