New Concord Speedway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Races started on the oval's fourth turn and finished at the 8,000-seat grandstand
- Raced
- 1959
- State
- North Carolina
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- At an oval speedway
- First race
- April 12, 1959
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Location
- On the half-mile oval at New Concord Speedway
- Elevation
- 588 ft (179 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.30874, -80.52012
Drag races here used an eighth-mile stretch of the speedway’s high-banked half-mile oval. Cars launched on the fourth turn and finished in front of the 8,000-seat concrete grandstand. The first drag race was on April 12, 1959, followed by another on April 19, both sanctioned by the International Timing Association.