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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.15.2010 - 12:45 pm
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Powell Motor Speedway-- .5 Mile Dirt Oval--Powell, Ohio. One Race Only.
Closed in 1959, smaller tracks used location until 1965.

Held Champcar races, AAA sanctioned Races during the 40's, that were won
by Joie Chitwood, George Robson, Bill Holland.

http://www.champcarstats.com/tracks/powell.htm


  2.   Stan Chaney posted:
  06.03.2011 - 12:22 pm
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I am looking for any pictures from Powell Motor Speedway 1958,59 and
1960. My father(Paul Chaney) own the car,and Bernie Helmbright was the
driver in 1958. My dad pass away in 1998, but I have talked to Bernie
and he said the car got upside down and another car ended up on my dad's
car. There was a picture taken before the race and there's a picture
after the crash with the car sitting on top. The car was a 48 or 49 Olds
88 and the number was 88. If anyone can help me my e-mail is
spopps50@aol.com Thank you!


  3.   Aldo posted:
  08.18.2015 - 9:37 am
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I think the exact place of the track is at the cross between Powell West
Road and Murphy Parkway near Powell, Ohio.


  4.   Matt posted:
  09.01.2019 - 4:53 pm
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You are indeed correct, Aldo: The track was still around well into the
90s, before being demolished to make way for apartment complexes. The
last remnant, a section of turn 4, faded away in 2010.


  5.   Shane posted:
  06.07.2020 - 12:31 am
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Lived here in Powell for 12 years and didn't know about this until last
year. No one in town has ever really talked about having a track in it,
not too many NASCAR fans either.


  6.   A posted:
  07.09.2020 - 12:16 am
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The City of Powell website describes Murphy Park as "once the location
of car races." It appears on aerial views that some kind of park existed
back in the 50's and 60's, and the current Murphy Park parking lot is
located at what was basically the wall of turn four.

The park looks very nice on streetview but sadly doesn't appear to have
any historic markers or acknowledgment of the track history.


  7.   A posted:
  07.09.2020 - 12:16 am
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Fairly informative article about the history of the track area:

https://www.thisweeknews.com/article/20140624/NEWS/306249706


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