Troy Speedway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Concrete surface, unusual for its day
- Raced
- after 1956
- State
- North Carolina
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Roadway Inn, built on the original concrete
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- late 1950s (after 1956)
- Last race
- 1963
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Concrete
- Location
- From just northeast of the old Uwharrie Mountain Lodge southwest to the Friendly Used Car lot, beside 24/109
- People
- Albert Lincoln, builder and owner (late 1950s-1963)
- Elevation
- 539 ft (164 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.34461, -79.91466
This strip first came to light through an old sign advertising a drag race at the speedway. Local people later filled in the story. Albert Lincoln, who owned Troy Buick/Chevrolet and was a busy local businessman, decided Troy needed a drag strip and built one in the late 1950s. The exact opening date isn’t known, but a 1956 aerial photo shows no strip, so it came after that. Unusually for the time it was concrete, an eighth-mile with questionable shutdown room. It started just northeast of the old Uwharrie Mountain Lodge and ran 0.2 miles southwest to where Friendly Used Car now sits. Many spectators skipped tickets and watched for free from the westbound side of 24/109. Lincoln closed the strip in 1963, mostly because it didn’t make money. The Roadway Inn was later built on the strip itself and still sits on the original concrete, with part of the strip serving as its parking lot. It isn’t known whether Lincoln owned the inn.
