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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.15.2010 - 1:50 pm
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5/8th Dirt Oval. Closed in 1961. Track lost support after Bruton Smith,
was rumored to be building a new track called Salisbury Superspeedway, a
3/4th Paved Oval on the Rowan County Fairgrounds. The deal fell through,
eventually leaving Salisbury with no functioning racetrack.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19580621&id=8i8sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dssEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4192,3092886


  2.   A posted:
  07.08.2020 - 1:51 pm
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This was not at the current Rowan County Fairgounds SW of Salisbury,
which had what appears to be a dirt track during the 60's. Was located
south of town right on US 29. Was a horse track reconfigured into a
paved track with a dirt track in the infield, but was totally gone by 1965.

However, the old grandstands appear to have been converted into some
company called "Blast-It-All" at 185 Piper Lane, Salisbury. The building
is on the exact footprint of the old fairgrounds track and on Google
Satellite view you can zoom way in and see a building that definitely
looks like a converted grandstand. To the SW, "Lucky Leroy's Appliance
Store" and "Out to Pasture Pony Parts" (a car salvage business!) also
use buildings that seem to date back to the days of the fairgrounds and
racetrack.

Though the "big track" was very short lived, this article shows that
there was a long history of auto racing at the site, at Bruton Smith
himself built it into a larger track:

https://www.salisburypost.com/2011/10/22/rowans-days-of-thunder/


  3.   Noodle posted:
  01.04.2021 - 11:15 am
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I thought the old Salisbury Super Speedway was located off of Bringle
Ferry road and I-85 at what is now called Crowder Dixon rd.


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