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Kyle Peckham
@kyle-peckham
12/19/13 06:10:34PM
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Iredell Speedway


Historic Speedways and Ghost Tracks

Hey guys, I live about 15 miles from the property and have been trying to find a time to explore it but haven't had any luck. I'll be checking out the Statesville Library and am going to talk to the town's commissioner (he is a family friend) and maybe he can help me get in contact with the owners of the property.

Anyway, I noticed that we only had aerials of the property and the one amazing period photograph from the private collection. I was looking at the property using some results from a US Geologic Survey of the area on Google Earth in 3D. It gives you an idea of how low the infield was and the elevation of the property. The video is lower quality due to no screen-capture available, but I hope it's sufficient if anyone wants to see what the terrain would be like if we were there today.

Note the swath cut out of Turns 1 and 2 - that's one of the smaller connecting channels from the track's days as the Church Lake fish pond.