|| *Comments on Portland Speedway:* View the most recent comment <#12> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Cooper posted: 03.08.2011 - 3:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Portland Speedway was a half-mile race track for auto racing in Portland, Oregon, U.S. It was in existence from 1924 until mid-2000. The track began as a five-eighths-mile (one km) clay oval in 1924 on the site of a field in north Portland. The track hosted big cars, midget cars, and stock cars before the suspension of racing during World War II. The track was paved in 1946 as a half-mile oval. NASCAR sanctioning came to Portland after Western Speedways, Inc. leased the track in 1984. Four NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races from 1995 to 1998. Mike Skinner and Ron Hornaday, Jr. won at Portland during their championship seasons, 1995 and 1996 respectively. Rich Bickle and Stacy Compton won the final two events there. The NASCAR Winston West Series ran 36 Portland races between 1971 and 2000 with Hershel McGriff winning a series high five times. Other notable winners included future NASCAR Winston Cup champion Bobby Allison, 1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope, and NASCAR drivers Chad Little and Ken Schrader. 1994 Portland winner Rick Carelli competed in all four Portland Craftsman Truck Series races, with three top tens and a best finish of third in 1998. The last race on the pavement surface was on July 30, 2000. The track was converted to a clay surface and hosted the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars in 2000 and 2001. 2. chris o posted: 07.30.2012 - 1:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) track is no longer around 3. Anonymous posted: 06.18.2014 - 8:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) this is the same track as the one used in Cup in the mid 50's not sure why they are listed as 2 different tracks on this site 4. oldschoolracing519 posted: 08.13.2015 - 9:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) as said before this is the same exact track as the other Portland Speedway on this site can we please merge the 2 together, as we have the Truck and West results on this one and the Cup results on the other if you look you can clearly see they all belong under 1 track listing 5. Spen posted: 02.23.2016 - 2:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) For some reason, this track does not appear on the list of Cup tracks. 6. JRacingFast posted: 02.23.2016 - 3:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't this track a road course? 7. Tylor Thaber posted: 02.23.2016 - 3:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) No, this was actually a separate track from the road course. Believe they were at opposite sides of the city, don't quote me on that. 8. Maverick11 posted: 02.23.2016 - 3:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yes, they were both in Portland. Portland Speedway was the oval, while Portland International Raceway was the road course. The road course was added to the truck schedule in 1999 after this Portland was removed off the schedule in 1998. 9. RaceFanX posted: 09.29.2017 - 12:54 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This track's facilities have been demolished so no doubt it has seen its last race but looking up it's location while I had read the property had been redeveloped into an industrial park it does appear the oval itself is still intact. Quite weird that it is though since it appears to now be in the middle of a very developed area. 10. CBASS posted: 12.22.2017 - 11:23 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) RaceFanX what you're seeing is actually the horse track that remained intact. The half mile oval got demolished. 11. Nathan8848 posted: 06.19.2019 - 7:17 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) The track originally had no walls on the back stretch. Instead black berry bushes were used to help cut the sound. The bushes helped prevent damage ironically. However, after Rich Bickle went into them in 1996 he complained and they were replaced with a concrete wall. 12. Tarheel posted: 06.19.2019 - 8:29 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) 11, I remember that race. A few years ago I was telling a buddy of mine about a truck race in the nineties where a driver went off track and ran into some bushes but I couldn't remember the name of the driver or which track it was. It looks like Bickle made up for it by winning the next year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: