Uniontown Speedway

Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.

Raced
1957
State
Pennsylvania
What's left
The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
Raced on
At an oval speedway
First race
July 4, 1957
Surface
Paved
Location
Next to the site of the old Uniontown board track
Elevation
1,158 ft (353 m)
Coordinates
39.89248, -79.70385

Uniontown had a famous wooden board track for auto racing from 1916 to 1922. In 1946 a half-mile dirt track was built next to where the board track had been, and by 1957 it had been paved. On July 4, 1957, a drag race was added to the stock car program for the first time.

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