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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.24.2011 - 7:21 pm
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In addition to an oval with a Figure 8 in the middle, albeit a real
tight one, this track had it's own drag strip.

The track is long abandoned now but still in existance, before it closed
the track owner stole a bunch of money and split. For a while after the
closure locals used to hold illegal races at the track supposedly until
a bad accident, possibly fatal possibly not, took place at which point
piles of dirt placed on the track to make the surface undriveable.

Many fans remember the track's signature plastic seats but many of them
eventually went up in flames in a grandstand fire.


  2.   Chriswo posted:
  05.07.2015 - 9:26 pm
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The track had a very short life opening in 1971 and closing in 1974.
Judging by the video I saw of this place, it's still there, but it's in
really bad condition.


  3.   br7484 posted:
  02.19.2017 - 4:05 pm
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Century 21 Speedway was located at what is now the northwest corner of
I-70 and E-470. It was originally conceived as a multipurpose facility
with a 3/8 mile oval, a drag strip and either a 1 ¼ or 1 ½ mile
superspeedway with four corners similar to Indianapolis or Ontario. The
big oval never got done, but from aerial photographs you can see the
layout of the big oval as grading work had been completed before the
shutdown.
This track was a bit before my time, but I've heard when the dragstrip
was built they ran it slightly downhill to compensate for the altitude
so a car would run the same E.T.s at the mile high altitude as it would
at sea level. I don't know if this was true or how well it worked. Also
the figure 8 course was very tight, the oval was fairly high banked and
the result was tough on equipment. Old timers talk about breaking ¾ ton
truck spindles on the figure 8 cars.
After closing the track sat in deteriorating and dilapidated condition
for about 40 years, until about two years ago redevelopment work began
on the site. The track is completely gone now, a one million square foot
amazon.com distribution center is currently being built on the site.


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