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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.21.2010 - 12:17 pm
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Champion Speedway was located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was a
1/3 mile paved oval. Ran in 1958 and 1959. Track closed in 1959.


  2.   us 4 u posted:
  11.08.2010 - 6:43 pm
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Ive never heard of this track before...


  3.   Andy U posted:
  12.13.2018 - 1:23 pm
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Geocache Description:
You seek a large stock bottle with log and swag at a site that was
important in the very early days of NASCAR, but is now nearly forgotten.

According to the book, "Silent Speedways of the Carolinas", by Perry
Allen Wood (2007, McFarland & Co.), this industrial park on Gillespie
Road was once the location of the Champion Speedway, a third-mile
concrete track the hosted three of the first seven races of the Grand
National stock car racing season for 1958 and the first race of the 1959
season. Lee Petty, Buck Baker, and Rex White were just three of the
legendary racers who competed on this track. Unfortunately, after 1959,
the race was moved to the newly built track in Daytona, Florida, and
never returned to Fayetteville. The old track was finally plowed under
and used for fill in 1986. Some of the original concrete can still be
seen in the lot behind Fayetteville Steel Erectors and Metal Buildings,
but that and a bit of chain link fence is all that remains of
Fayetteville's small stake in Stock Car Racing History.


There she is, 1957 Saint Pauls NC map. If you look at the Fayetteville
Municipal Airport, extend the east-west runway out to the west to teh
red road (HWY 301, and then just a bit south you see it with the banked
turns as elevation lines.

The 1986 map (Hope Mills NC) shows the track still intact. Easier to
find the track based of this map. There are still some elevation lines
meaning that it has not bee leveled in 86. By 2016 the lines have
changed and it loos a lot flatter now. well at least you (I) can use the
86 map for coordinates of points to try to see.

On the Google Maps street view I swear I think I can see a berm right
where I was looking for the turns at the south end of the track. This
looks like a snake infested, rusted out old junkyard for cranes and
trailers. Get your tetanus shot before you go.


  4.   Mr.Victory posted:
  03.11.2019 - 9:07 pm
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This track I believe is located near the airport in town, and you can
see it near the highway that is located beside it. Monster Trucks are
sometimes having exhibitions there.


  5.   A posted:
  09.23.2019 - 11:10 pm
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Look up "Alside Building Products" and that big building is pretty much
where turn 2 and the south end of the track was.

The Fayetteville Motor Speedway dirt track and drag strip are just a
little over two miles to the southeast. That active track is not the
same as this one, Champion Speedway.


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