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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.21.2010 - 12:18 pm
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The Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in Weaverville, North Carolina was
considered to be site for the old-school NASCAR races in both the Grand
National and the Winston Cup eras (which is now known as the Sprint Cup
Series). None of the active drivers that are in the Sprint Cup Series
today have ever raced at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway and neither have
some of the legends like Darrell Waltrip and Kyle Petty.

From 1951 to 1969, the race course offered some wins from drivers like
Richard Petty, Bob Flock, Fonty Flock, Lee Petty, and a win by Fireball
Roberts. As a dirt oval track, the speedway helped served its purposed
during the dirt-dominated formative years of what is now called the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Other NASCAR legends like Banjo Matthews,
Ralph Earnhardt, Junior Johnson, and Cotton Owens had made notable
appearances here. An anti-noise ordinance was used to shut down the
track after years of racing; this fight was staged as early as the 1970
racing season when a group of citizens petitioned their city council to
shut down the track. Originally, the objectors were hotel operators by
75% of the Asheville Citizen newspaper wanted that track to be closed in
a poll done in the summer of 1987.

The property is now occupied by North Buncombe High School.


  2.   Andy U posted:
  12.13.2018 - 10:56 am
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Yep, the USGS Map sheet Wesverville NC 1962 shows the track at the bakc
of the current North Buncombe HS. There were stands on both the back adn
front.Track is oriented 10-4. You can still see the NW two turns. The SW
straight went through the infield of the ballfields and the bottom turns
were pretty much between the baseball field adn the football practice
field. Other straight was about behind the football stands.


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