Lost motorsports venues
Closed speedways, road courses, dirt tracks and drag strips. Racing facilities need large tracts of land, so many closed sites were redeveloped into housing, retail or logistics parks.
57 venues
View on map →Ruppert Stadium
Ruppert Stadium was the Ironbound ballpark of the Yankees' top farm club, the Newark Bears, and the Negro National League Newark Eagles, who won the 1946 Negro World Series there.
Stardust International Raceway
Stardust International Raceway was a 3-mile road course and drag strip west of Las Vegas built to draw high rollers to the Stardust casino. It hosted Can-Am finales before closing and giving way to the Spring Valley housing development.
Syracuse Mile
The Syracuse Mile at the New York State Fairgrounds was a one-mile dirt oval that held auto races from 1903 until October 2015. It hosted AAA and USAC Indy cars, NASCAR Grand National races and Super DIRT Week, and was torn down in 2016.
Tacoma Speedway
Tacoma Speedway was a dirt and later board racetrack in present-day Lakewood, Washington, that drew top AAA drivers from 1912 to 1922. Its grounds became an airport and later Clover Park Technical College.
Trenton Speedway
A racetrack at the New Jersey State Fairgrounds that evolved from a 1900 half-mile dirt oval into a 1.5-mile paved speedway hosting Indy cars and NASCAR until its 1980 closure.
Uniontown Speedway
Uniontown Speedway was a 1.1-mile wooden board track at Hopwood, Pennsylvania, that held AAA races from 1916 to 1922. A half-mile dirt track later operated nearby on the site.
US 30 Drag Strip
US 30 Drag Strip in Hobart, Indiana, was an AHRA flagship drag strip that operated from at least 1957 until the end of the 1984 season. Parts of the strip and its buildings remained in 2001.
Walt Disney World Speedway
Walt Disney World Speedway was a one-mile oval on the Walt Disney World Resort grounds that opened in 1995 and closed in August 2015. It hosted the Indy Racing League's Indy 200 from 1996 to 2000.
Westboro Speedway
Westboro Speedway was a quarter-mile asphalt oval on Route 9 in Westborough, Massachusetts, that raced from August 1947 to September 1985. The site is now a shopping plaza.