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Texas World Speedway

College Station, Texas · Eight Cup races, 1969–1981

A wide high-banked two-mile paved superspeedway under a big hazy sky, a pack of early-1970s stock cars low on the banking, a long grandstand behind. — The Forgotten Two-Mile, Imagined. Not an archive photograph.

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.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_World_Speedway
https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/speedway-news/399384-history-of-texas-world-speedway-and-what-happened-to-it/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_Cup_Series_at_Texas_World_Speedway

Note: storm name deliberately omitted; the source text naming it was truncated.

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