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  1.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  07.18.2013 - 11:18 am
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Not sure if this track is still around, though Kansas City does have a
track called Lakeside Speedway, a 3/8ths dirt. I found nothing on
Stadium itself, so these may be the same circuit.


  2.   robert posted:
  10.06.2016 - 7:40 am
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I don't know if lakeside speedway and lakeside stadium were the same
place. But lakeside speedway has different location in the same area. It
moved to a different location in the same area quite a few years ago now.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.01.2020 - 10:34 am
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Robert is right, this is two different tracks but so very similarly
named and located that even on a local level they appear to be seen as
sharing a joint history.

The original Lakeside Stadium dirt track that was in operation from 1955
to 1988 at a location that is actually very close to the modern Kansas
Speedway NASCAR track. Today this track sits abandoned but appears to
still be in existence judging by aerial pictures from Google (wouldn't
Dale Jr. get a kick out of that, a "Lost Speedway" so close to a modern
one). The original track was called Lakeside Stadium when it hosted the
NASCAR convertibles but changed its name to Lakeside Speedway later on,
likely helping with the confusion.

The modern Lakeside Speedway opened in 1989 to replace the old track
after developers had purchased it. It is located to the north of the
original track in a more rural floodplain area closer to the Missouri
River and the Kansas-Missouri state line but still within striking
distance of modern super speedway. It was a paved half-mile track from
1989 to 1999 but was rebuilt into a shorter dirt track after that.
Famously the modern Lakeside was where a local racer Clint Bowyer cut
his teeth before moving up to stock car superstardom in the NASCAR ranks.

Oddly the World of Outlaws have raced here through the years in all its
configurations both old and new, they even raced on the pavement here in
1991 and 1992 in one of the very few times that series ever ran on
asphalt. Infamously one of the 1992 races was marred by the fiery crash
that badly injured Doug Wolfgang.

The original track neighbors Wyandotte County Lake, hence the name.
There are no lakes anywhere near the new track; it instead neighbors a
concrete plant but admittedly Concrete Plantside Speedway wouldn't be a
good name for a dirt track.


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