Here's a link to a video I uploaded on my second channel. Go check it out if you haven't already! kzread.info/dash/bejne/kamJucZvZdbKkto.html

@stevejohnson7165

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the adventures.

@glynnford7265

5 жыл бұрын

Shardd this to Mississippi Racin' Memories page. Some of those guys on there can answer the questions you have about the track

@HossHenry08

5 жыл бұрын

It's NOT "Jacksonville" MS, it's JACKSON , MS

@steedblackman1615

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure if you visited nearby towns around that race track you can find some locals who used to frequent that track back in the 80s. I'm sure they have some stories to tell. Great video! thanks

@kevinmasters7189

5 жыл бұрын

That hole used to be a pit scale for cars to weigh in

Who else oddly wants to go clean that track and try to bring it back to its glory days

@TB-bs9zu

5 жыл бұрын

I felt the same when I found an old drag strip in Lakeland, TN not to long ago. Had the painted ads on the walls and everything. So cool to imagine what it was like back in the day.

@frostythesnowdragon3170

5 жыл бұрын

Matthew hoffman it’s possible with a lot of effort someone could restore the track

@scotthall355

5 жыл бұрын

Yes let’s do it.!!

@jangounchained5279

5 жыл бұрын

Oooo yeahhh !!! 😂 at least you can go race on it with a couple of Jeeps right now !

@athomedetail6512

5 жыл бұрын

I wanna leave it how it is & drift both banks.

This track belonged to my Grandfather and I spent some time there when I was a kid. All my relatives worked in the concession stands and I had complete access during the races to everything and it was a cool time to be his grandson. I ended up with the track signs from above the office building and the signs over the concession stands, the loud speakers, flagman flags, programs, rolls of tickets, trophies, amplifiers and most of it is in my Game Room or shop. The singer Marty Robbins also raced there. The reason the track closed was that the city of Clinton annexed a subdivision on the far side of the track and it was absorbed. The County was wet and Clinton was dry. Now the track was dry and beer was where the track made its money. Lawsuits were filed but it was hopeless. I also remember there was two sections of bleachers because segregation was still prevalent in Mississippi.I remember having it explained to me why "they" sat in a different area. I lived in Florida and hadn't been exposed to anything like that before. I still enjoy going through the boxes and boxes of memorabilia from time to time. I even have the pictures of it being built. It's predecessor was a dirt track located a little south of Clinton I believe. I visited it in the 60's when I was around 6 years old. I looked into reopening the Speedway back in the 80's but the stands were in bad shape and the track surface needed a "cap" put on it, so it was just the pipe dream from a moment of nostalgia. I remember running the track sweeper before I had my drivers license.

@ryandavis930

5 жыл бұрын

I assume the hole in the ground was a scale?

@featheredcoyote5477

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your memories and experiences.

@grizzly8859

5 жыл бұрын

Nice story bro! Tell it again.

@TheHairyConnoissuer

5 жыл бұрын

This is a feel good story about the past. Super cool all around.

@jrd2475

5 жыл бұрын

That's pretty awesome to spend time with your grandfather and family and have the memories of doing something they all must have loved so much it's sad to see so many of these once amazing tracks now sitting silent so many tracks are closing Never to reopen again. I figure you wanted to reopen it to maybe have a connection with your grandfather and your younger self really nice story thanks for sharing.

I use to go there on Saturday Night to the races and yes it was fast. I worked at Napa's Clinton store and sold many parts to the race car owners and drivers. It was a blast. Thank you for the memories.

@skiboo777

4 жыл бұрын

my great grandfather was the owner of that track - C.E. Smith

@TheJb19591

4 жыл бұрын

@@skiboo777 That's cool too know. I really wish that it was still active.

@TerriZandecki

3 жыл бұрын

Ok I really like the story of the race!!!

@Lewis_T

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Clinton. Born in 70, and had a blast on Saturday nights at the track too. Remember how fast those sprint cars were out there? Those things amazed me as a kid and we could stand right up against the fence. Seemed like I could've reached out and touched them. I remember on occasion seeing a car go off the track on the backstretch, they'd disappear... 😂 Good times!!

A little town called Radiator Springs.

@point_decascadia

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Blanchard I-

@rameshsuthar.5799

4 жыл бұрын

Cars❤️😭

@marketboy3679

4 жыл бұрын

Hajaha i like ur comment.

@TerriZandecki

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is look like the car movie!!!!!

My grandpa made many laps around that track. That's his car at the first part of your video Bob Herrin #1

@paintgunexpress1949

5 жыл бұрын

That's Pretty Awsome.. Thanks for sharing.. 👍🏁👍🏁👍🏁👍

@jzero32

5 жыл бұрын

Grandapa was , or hopefully still is, a pretty damn cool dude with a big set ! Very cool !

@paulcondie2520

5 жыл бұрын

David Herrin dude thats awesome!

@bigboy3jv

5 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

@nomaticvanduraartz1720

5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the v8 car was Wild Bill Slater. he was my step father's friend. my stepfather built a lot of his engines in a couple of his cars.

Nicely done. No distracting music. Thanks.

@franktorres8473

5 жыл бұрын

That was the first oval track that I went to. I still recall the smell of race gas and beer even though I was not old enough to drink. Saw some of the fastest cars and you were correct in assuming that there was no fence on the back stretch. I actually saw a car come off turn two and was launched in the air and landed in the pine trees behind the track.

@johncase8534

5 жыл бұрын

@@franktorres8473 such a shame for what looks like a well preserved track. What made it go under?

@orgillmathew

5 жыл бұрын

I know right!!! No stupid computer music that everyone seems to be using, it’s so annoying

“Cleetus McFarland” would like to know your location

@jeepwrangled79

4 жыл бұрын

Desoto 2.0

@johncuervo3019

4 жыл бұрын

Who

@mattgaming8717

4 жыл бұрын

And invite you to race in a few months time brother!!!

@sunnysantaanajr2593

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah brother

@countryboyforlife2921

4 жыл бұрын

solomon toussaint heh ya freedom factory 2.0

That track is in better condition then most roads in ohio

@F125yourself

5 жыл бұрын

AND Michigan!!!! LOL

@marketboy3679

4 жыл бұрын

And remote area province in the philippines also....

@user-dr6wn2nd2r

4 жыл бұрын

And in Bulgaria (East Europe)

@maxmendez2196

4 жыл бұрын

And in San Bernardino

@MississippiDan1

4 жыл бұрын

Better than most Chicago streets

I love these videos, but there is always a sense of sadness in seeing the world I grew up in vanishing.

@jzero32

5 жыл бұрын

Know what you mean, our family raced drag cars and modified stocks in the 50's-60's-70's at tracks in Pa. and N.J.. HATFIELD drag-o-way and speedway 1958-66, which till this day we live about 4miles from and pass the development almost daily, - Vargo drag way in Perkasie Pa. about 20 minutes from Hatfield had many drag racing greats, --SARATOGA Speedway 1939 to 1958 running midgets and after the war mainly stock cars about 25 minutes from Hatfield -- Englishtown ( Old Bridge Raceway Park) The famous" SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY at RACEWAY PARK" 1965 closed it's Summernats event and drags for 2018 although Motorcross still reigns supreme along with other events. REALLY MISS THOSE DAYS!!!! Especially in todays screwed up world.

@jzero32

5 жыл бұрын

I forgot Nazareth 1/2 mile, my very first dirt race, and the infamous D shaped mile ---and a track where I also still have relatives living very near the location the super dangerous with ALL the greats heading for Indy -- Langhorne Speedway 1926 - 1971-- Another dangerous and car destroyer track the super old Flemington Fair Speedway 1915 - 1990 and of course my perennial favorite was the Reading Fairgrounds Speedway 1924-1979 and home of the dirt modified greats . God I have to stop thinking about all that has vanished and not much new cropping up but GEARHEADS ARE FOREVER !!!

@markbrubaker8585

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more. Tremendous sense of sadness.

@cc2450

5 жыл бұрын

DE Saxon Yes !

@George-dt4qi

5 жыл бұрын

The only thing that kept these places going was money, and it ran dry

Crazy how the world will always regrow through any structure and go back to normal

@Whoisroccoruzzo

4 жыл бұрын

THE MUSTANG COLLECTOR I was just thinking this

@MUSTANGHUNTER

4 жыл бұрын

@@Whoisroccoruzzo it's just wild to see

I grew up in Clinton, lived on the other side of town, every Saturday night you could hear the cars blast off at the start of a race, even miles away the sound was truly awesome open headers and lots of horsepower!

Who else wants to turn some laps around this track, even in its current condition?!

@Oeschk

4 жыл бұрын

Me

@paulorchard7960

4 жыл бұрын

nolo I’m surprised local kids have not chainsawed their way in and chance themselves around the circuit!

@ABH313

4 жыл бұрын

That would be fun as fuck on my supermoto

@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to fall, down, there and see how fast i can rolll, around it, just or fun.

@hankbagrowski7356

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! I'm in! Let's go racing!

Awesome exploration! I went there as a kid to see the races. This is the first time I have seen the old track since 1983

The concrete pit you showed was probably where the scale was to weigh the race cars. All the mechanical parts was below with a wooden deck on top to drive on to. This was before digital scales came into existence. Good video.

@Meekerextreme

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, looks like the scale setup we have at a family business my father in-law owns. The workings are int he pit and the top is wood like you said.

@ronfullerton3162

5 жыл бұрын

You are right! And you can also see the small notch in the pit where the beam ran outside the pit to connect to the scales which sat on the wood platform above ground. Also the number one and two corners had no barrier or barricade around it. Most tracks did not have excessive amount of room so had to install some type of barrier. But the tracks that had that open corner we're safe because you just slid or drove off the track. No damage or wreck. I grew up near an old fairgrounds race track that had no guardrails, and off the track they would go and drive around to the pit gate to re-enter the track when the race was over. No car damage, no stopping the races. The only exception was the horse barns off of number four. Several times a summer they would be patching a car sized hole in one of the barns. Aw the memories!

@teejay8383

5 жыл бұрын

All of the infield was pit area

Wow thanks for sharing with us !

The way NASCAR is going that will be all tracks in twenty years. Sad.

@dom.rockchalkjayhawk.8990

4 жыл бұрын

triptwenty Smith no it won’t

@triptwentysmith8472

4 жыл бұрын

@@dom.rockchalkjayhawk.8990 we will see. They are driving the sport into the ground. No pun intended. We just witnessed what NASCAR will be very soon, during this pandemic. Except there will be a lot more kids racing. Because they will do it for nothing.

@Coldwarrior7781

3 жыл бұрын

They are self destructing. By trying to lure the young crowd they are alienating the older crowd. Big mistake since that's how most people get into racing. They are introduced to it by the old guys. That's how I came to discover and love racing. A friend's dad brought us to this very track on the weekends 69-69.

@triptwentysmith8472

3 жыл бұрын

@@Coldwarrior7781 I started at Thunder Road at six years old in Barre Vt. It was owned by Ken Squire. Absolutely loved it. Thanks Dad.

@botaniccal

3 жыл бұрын

nascar isn't dying lmao before march madness it's consistently the most watched sport on cable. everything on cable is "dying", but NASCAR actually saw an uptick in viewership last year so

Would make a great go kart track... Talladega for go karts...

@worldofradiocontrol10

5 жыл бұрын

I would so love to get some big go karts out there to race. Within a week, all the foliage on the track would be gone haha

@anyoneofus9948

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe start with some lawnmower races!

@KevAlberta

5 жыл бұрын

World of Radio Control and so would the track surface. It would wear down to rubble because of the condition it’s in

@dalp9580

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and yes

The banks are in better shape because water runs off them more, thus minimizing erosion.

@nachoballsgrande1776

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks ecologist expert

@GLDENGLOVES

4 жыл бұрын

Erosion is caused by run off 🤔

@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

4 жыл бұрын

Makes no sense. The Strightaways are more eroded, because, Turd Poop settles, there and Turd Poop is Acidic, by Nature. Bird Poop, too or asshole.

@T34theAmericanheavy

4 жыл бұрын

They were just reinforced more

Wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard a track being billed as "the world's fastest 1/2 mile".....there must be at least a few dozen in this country!

@backinblck1

3 жыл бұрын

This actually was for a short period of time. The thing that made this track so fast is the corners have a much larger radius that Bristol so even with less banking the sprints back in the day could almost flat foot it all the way around.

@michaelsmith-iu1be

3 жыл бұрын

They said the same about the Dayton Speedway in Ohio. Unfortunately it is completely gone.

@shanebrooks2013

2 жыл бұрын

Winchester Speedway in Indiana is the actual fastest true half mile in the world. Bristol is almost 5/8.

@pizzafrenzyman

2 жыл бұрын

and a quarter for every track using "international" in the name.

@lunarson1967

2 жыл бұрын

Alot of tracks claim that not matter the size.

The tone of your voice, the tempo of your words, the background of information you provide are all spot on. I predict good things for you if your goal is to advance your career in front of the camera. I appreciate your hard work and sincere interest in what you do. Thank you.

There's a abandoned race track in my area, US 30 Dragstrip. Opened in 1957, closed in October 1984, the crumbling track is still here, all weeds etc now. This is in Northwestern Indiana, Hobart Indiana.

@Viking_6_3

5 жыл бұрын

Not very often I run into another Chicagoland youtuber.

@victorray4225

5 жыл бұрын

@@Viking_6_3I've been in the Chicago area for 50 years, 43 years in Northwestern Indiana & 7 years in Chicago Illinois.

@victorray4225

5 жыл бұрын

If anyone wants to see a picture of US 30, I have a recent pic, I can email the picture. Victor.ray33@gmail.com

@DeKrampus

5 жыл бұрын

SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Oh man! Did I have fun in the pits of U.S 30, as a kid! I've gotta get up that way and see the remnants of the old place.

@wmw3629

5 жыл бұрын

DeKrampus 11111 I remembered radio announcers on WLS promos for this track. Also Great Lakes Dragway Union Grove Wisconsin!!

Nature overcomes man and the history that once was.

@jacooosthuizen3593

5 жыл бұрын

Yea shows you how quickly nature takes back, so much lost in the pyramid era ect. Basically just the rocks that lasted.

@jeffambrosia5678

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a real brain buster that living things come and go ,while rocks and concrete don't erode quickly

@jaredshoemaker3591

5 жыл бұрын

Really Cool!!! Thanks!!!

@ShaunHensley

5 жыл бұрын

it’s good to see

@kamala2111

5 жыл бұрын

So true

I really appreciate that you go out of your way, adventurous enough, and enjoy traveling to abandoned places. I love feeling the history and thinking about all the people that have been there, that are old or passed on. Thank you.

Dude!...Thanks! I grew up in Vicksburg and going to that track with my Dad was like a major deal to me. I have great memories of going to some races and even more so going to a stunt car exhibition where they ramped up and got on two wheels did ramp jumps and performed the "T-Bone Crash". Look it up. I remember going there with my good friend Paul when we were in high school also with my Dad. The concessions always smelled great and they sold the coolest model cars. The absence of a wall on the back led to racers going over the back side and out of sight. Last memory I have is my fiance and I at the time attending one of the last races in 1985 seems like the weekend before we got married. I still drive by the track while on I-20 often and have watched over the years as the vegetation came up and eventually the grandstand and the press box with "Jackson International Speedway" came down. Cool video. Thank you!

Awesome man!

@Lurod_

5 жыл бұрын

HA! One like and every vid i see uou have 1k or 2k.

Track was closed in my hometown years ago .... owner turned it into a trailer park, everyone gets a sloped driveway

@onebadapple83

5 жыл бұрын

Sad that the track closed but the sloped driveway? That’s funny s...t there!!!

@Boatsandhoes44u8

5 жыл бұрын

That's funny you said that, I've seen a drag strip turned into a trailer park in N.C.

@anthonymoffitt466

4 жыл бұрын

@@Boatsandhoes44u8 where in NC?

@Boatsandhoes44u8

4 жыл бұрын

@@anthonymoffitt466 it was years ago I saw it, from what a guy told me it was a low key kind of spot. Was outside of Maxton, I know now they have 710 dragway open

By far one of the coolest videos I've seen on KZread for a while. This kinda video is what KZread was all about 10 years ago. Awesomeness 👍

Absolutely love these abandoned site videos. Keep them coming!

Very cool, thanks for filming and sharing!

Love the way you went back and researched the history and gave us some details and old pics. Great job!

My dad actually broke the track record there in 1979 driving for Rice and Kasperic racing's sprint car. That day was so humid that you could see a small vapor trail coming off the sideboards of the wings on the sprints and supermodifieds.

Thanks for the show !!

I used to thrive on this when I was a kid. You're doing and saying and probably thinking exactly what I did, back then. Only kid stuff? No way! It's one of the most beautiful human reflexes. And that's why I became a field archaeologist.

Am I the only one that's thinking about roundup weed killer and a 500hp camaro ?

@angelsworld1733

5 жыл бұрын

Carl Larsen lol, yes you probably are!!

@indyme2

5 жыл бұрын

I'm in, lol.

@kiknazz2020

5 жыл бұрын

NOPE!...I too.. was thinking something very similar...

@timbucktoo1663

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe 750hp Camaro!!

@khathn4200

5 жыл бұрын

I would do laps in my Civic or my BMW

Talk about a walk down memory lane. I remember this track very well. We went out to watch the building of the track and attended many races when it was complete. One of my favorite memories is driving my 1966 GTO around the track shortly afterward it was completed. It is my understanding that they had continuous problems with insurance coverage. Thanks again for the memories.

Thanks for this. I see a lot of abandoned building videos, it's interesting to see something different like this. It's all kind of sad how it ended up. I am amazed at how fast nature takes over. I was married in 1985, not all that long ago, at least it doesn't feel that long ago. 34 years ago, so this track has been abandoned for 33 years and the growth is incredible. Beautiful in it's own way.

Really great! I went there many times in the late 60’s and 70’s

That was really cool to see how this historic track currently looks like! Thanks for sharing!

That big tire was used with others to dry the track after it had been rained on. So much Americana. It’s crazy just how fast nature takes over.

It's amazing how fast nature and the elements take over abandoned places. I love your videos. I always hit the like button before I watch it! 😊

@GlynRobinson

5 жыл бұрын

Me too., 😂

I was through there a couple of weekends ago. You used to be able to see the Winston Cup sign from the interstate. I miss the old 1/2 mile tracks. I made the races here through most of the 70’s. Thanks for the vid.

Thanks for bringing this one out. Very sad to see old places like this.

awesome spot thanks for going there and filming it

What a interesting and unique place. Love watching your videos. Always fun and informative to watch. Really liked the Drone Flyover as well so we got to see a different perspective of the racetrack. Thanks for sharing. Have a Glamperrific Day! 👍❤️🌈😀🌈

I travel that section of I-20 pretty regularly and I remember seeing the bleachers/stands for that track all the time. I had really forgotten about it until coming across this video. I think they’ve been torn down for quite a while now.

Way cool! It's amazing that it just walked away from. Good explore! Thank you for sharing a part of your day with us!

I knew Bobby Harrell. He owned a tire store there in Jackson. My best friends dad and him were really close friends. Pretty cool seeing this.

Thank you for uploading this video. Very interesting stuff. I'm a race fan and have seen my share of closed down race tracks. Very sad. We are lucky to have local to where I live a active and thriving 5/8 mile dirt track with big block modifieds and an street stocks and an occasional Sprint car race. Awesome video 👍.

It was petty common back in those days not to have walls, and those tires were to protect cars in the infield in the event of an accident. Great video

Thank you for sharing. Always enjoy your videos

Thanks for posting.

I didn’t know you had a second channel. I will binge now. 💛

@MobileInstinct

5 жыл бұрын

Cool! Glad you found it!

My most treasured memories were racing karts in the early to mid 80's on clay tracks here in sc. It was still somewhat affordable for middle class. My daddy worked swing shift at the mill so we couldn't be there every weekend but when we did we won. I was very fortunate to sit in good equipment. Some of my cousins raced as well and our fathers before us raced stock cars, modifies hobby stock etc. My dad never liked to hear bragging. He told me if he ever heard me brag he'd sell everything. When we sold out for other reasons I just couldn't make myself go to another race. Our home track is well grown over now and forgot about but a couple years ago I stopped to visit the site. The man that lives there now was out weed eating. He was very nice and told me you could still see some of the layout of it to my surprise and he let me walk what was left of it and I enjoyed reminiscing.

Wow, this was cool. I'm truly amazed that with that kind of history that no one wanted to keep it going. Great video.

I'm just starting to watch this KZread and enjoy your videos on forgotten tracks. I'm not much into NASCAR now a day's but. I love to see things from back when it was real in my opinion. Thanks for the sharing.

Amazing how quickly nature moves back in. Love the drone shots. Really gives a sense of scale. 👍

@sidcostello7532

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, 'Ol Mother nature...she is a cunning bitch.

"NAPA, 12 locations to serve you". I think they've grown a bit sense then.

Thanks for the video !

Marvelous work.

There’s a damn nascar track next to my girlfriends house😂 that’s sick

As I was watching this, I couldn't help but envision Doc Hudson revving up his engine and charging around the turns.

@danielt8960

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! Yes now you mention it lol

Thanks so much for the trip back to memory lane. Been there and done that. So sad.

My Wife is from Jackson. This reminded me of places I found as a kid. Moving from different defense plants. There were always area's that just died one day. Sad.

Fascinating!! The quiet there is quite a contrast to the events on Saturday nights. Sad to see the old tracks disappear. North Wilkesboro in North Carolina comes to mind. Take a trip there and produce a video for us. 😀👍🏻

@MobileInstinct

5 жыл бұрын

I ll check it out

@Notthisguyeither

5 жыл бұрын

There are videos of North Wilkesborro on KZread

Id been burning that grass off the track with my tires if I lived next to that as a kid..

@Stealth164

5 жыл бұрын

IGOTAJOP America definitely would of died in one summer but god damn the possibilities

Thanks for sharing. I grew up a couple of miles from this and remember lying in bed on Saturday nights in the summer listening to the cars.

I had alot of good times.there as a young man awesome vid thank you for the memories

We use to say "Jackson International Raceway, come enjoy the race, a free splinter in every ass".

@tatorb6623

5 жыл бұрын

WootTootZoot 😂

Probably had steel guard rail barrier and they were pulled up and scrapped out when metal was bringing a good price. Thank you for the tour!

@davidfindlay6841

5 жыл бұрын

No guard rails at JIS.

Awesome video man

Very good video. Thank you kindly.

Old race tracks and Drive-ins what's not to love

I grew up in Vicksburg MS. Remember this track well.

We don't get to see this kind of places often, it's a memorable place for the people who saw the races with family and friends, heart touching place, thanks for the video buddy.

I love this video because everyone in the comments is adding their story and expressing their family history to add to the video and their memories of the place

Great find! I have been a NASCAR fan for three decades and I never heard of this track. Thanks.

@markbulichsr.836

5 жыл бұрын

NASCAR didnt race here for every NASCAR track there are 100s of little tracks there are 5 in my area

@jameskilpatrick6086

5 жыл бұрын

There were many former nascar greats that raced at this track. Some of the few were Bobby Allison,Donnie Allison,davey Allison,David Pearson,Lake Speed,Neil Bonnet,Mark Martin (all time track record holder there) and Red Farmer. Heck even Marty Robbins raced there.

@robertstrong5689

5 жыл бұрын

@@markbulichsr.836 I sort of knew that. I was more impressed with the first class features that you usually don't find outside of NASCAR...the banking on each end, the asphalt paving of the surface, etc. Every small track that I have gone to, were dirt tracks, which I must admit has its own style of excitement. This track in Mississippi probably had some great racing, but was possibly just located in the wrong place.

@robertstrong5689

5 жыл бұрын

@@jameskilpatrick6086 I did not know that. Thanks for the insight. I was a HUGE Allison family fan. I wore a Davey Allison cap for many years. I was traveling through Birmingham shortly after his tragic death and found his grave, paying my respects. Thanks, James.

@teddyghioto

5 жыл бұрын

the alabama gang.....@@jameskilpatrick6086

You should see if you can find a former driver and walk through with him.

This is the most captivating "exploring abandoned places" video I've ever seen. So sad to see the track, but cool to hear of it's history and see how nature has almost completely reclaimed it.

I snuck in and drove laps while I was in college in the late ‘90s. It has grown up a lot since then. Memories......

I live in Mississippi i seen this abandoned track with friends 😊

Some weird energy about places being abandoned like this

Excellent Story & video Thanks !!!!!

Excellent explore, thank you! Fascinating!!

Back when there was families, morals, only 2 sexes and race car drivers with balls of steel. Damn I miss those days.

@olewangler

5 жыл бұрын

Steve S I can’t to wait to look back 30 years from now say the say thing. Sexes were binary back then, families thrived from single parents, and people could see there kids and grandchildren growing up on facebook.

@bigboy3jv

5 жыл бұрын

Bro you aren't kidding!

@gregb.162

5 жыл бұрын

Damn straight buddy

@ss_whole

5 жыл бұрын

There's still only 2 sexes

@bigjon-q-public6198

5 жыл бұрын

Only two sexes and multiple mental illnesses.

Martinsville Speedway bank is 15°. So that's really close to Martinsville.

@wingracer1614

4 жыл бұрын

12 in the corners, pretty much 0 in the straights so this is definitely more banked than Martinsville. Of course neither comes close to the likes of Bristol, Salem or Winchester.

Nice video man,thanks for sharing.

I have lived in Clinton for 44 years. back in the early 80's the city incorporated where the track is and the track had to follow city ordinances. meaning no beer sales equals track closure. the land that the track sits on is owned by several different people making it hard to sale. even if someone was to buy it and restore it the city wouldn't let them race loud engines even though its 100 yards from interstate 20. i had the opportunity to drive my 77 f150 around the old track and had a blast. it was fun growing up with the a place to just be a kid.

@shanew.williams

11 ай бұрын

It really galls me, that sort of thing happens all the time. A track is in business for DECADES, then newcomers with $$ move into a "subdivision" KNOWING that a Racetrack is there FIRST but big $$ usually means the track gets closed down.

Clinton MS is 2 hours from me. Never heard of this track. Pretty cool.

It sucks that got vandalized. ( spray paint over the old logos) when I go out adventuring advanced stuff. I just bored take with me and put my name on top of it next to the add and take a picture of it. In the board comes back with me. So the only thing I left with my footprints and nothing else. ( my version of vandalizing what is the Safeway)

Very cool, love your videos!!

I live for stuff like this thank u💜

It's great to read the comments, from people, that had family members race here. It would be nice to cut the trees and bush hog it. Just to keep it from completely growing up. Not necessarily have any type of race on it.

@az_3kgt714

5 жыл бұрын

There was also a lot of them that were shutdown due to noise complainers. Were the track was there for decades before anyone moved nearby. Then someone knowingly moves near a race track. Then butches and whines till it gets shutdown. Crying shame.

6:05 all of those trees shown could have grown after the track closed. It was likely open space for the cars to slow down if they lost control.

Well done. Nice to see and hear about the good old days racing history.

Very cool video. Well done too, no annoying music or constant speculation without anything to base it off of like you see in a lot of these

Thanks for sharing this video. I have been looking on KZread for the past 2 weeks at abandon race tracks in the Carolinas and I did not know about this one.

@Viking_6_3

5 жыл бұрын

Because its in Mississippi

@nelsona779

5 жыл бұрын

I know but you know how you usually look up videos of abandoned race tracks and then you to recommend other ones I have never heard of this one

@chetdudley2244

5 жыл бұрын

Might look up Danville VA track

@nelsona779

5 жыл бұрын

@@chetdudley2244 I looked it up and nothing comes up other than actual races back in the day

@chetdudley2244

5 жыл бұрын

703 CRUIZ'N saw video of it only once just off US58 must have been Facebook

Ahh the good ole days...when the gas was cheap, the chrome was thick, and the girls were straight...sigh :/

@KevAlberta

5 жыл бұрын

Old man

@poggers5961

5 жыл бұрын

MountKeverest Pfft. Leave the man be. He’s happily remembering, you’re just not able to see his life and how he lived it.

@KevAlberta

5 жыл бұрын

Moon Man that’s a lot of information you extracted out of my two word sarcastic-rude-joke-comment. Don’t take yourself too seriously now

@poggers5961

5 жыл бұрын

MountKeverest Oh my bad, just have a lot of people like they down here in Mississippi now.

@thundernut6

5 жыл бұрын

I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor’s permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over 😡

Very very cool. I love historic anything. Thanks, man!

Too COOL. Watching videos like yours brings more entertainment and interest than most of the crap on t.v. U always supply your abandoned history with old photos or videos, and thats what makes it so interesting.