|| *Comments on Texas World Speedway:* View the most recent comment <#30> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Cooper posted: 03.14.2010 - 4:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Texas World Speedway was built in 1969 and is one of only seven superspeedways of two miles (3 km) or greater in the United States, the others being Indianapolis, Daytona, Pocono, Talladega, California, and Michigan. TWS is located on approximately 600 acres (2.4 km²) on State Highway 6 in College Station, Texas. There is a 2-mile (3 km) oval, and several road course configurations. The last major race occurred at the track in 1981. The track is still used by amateur racing clubs such as the SCCA, NASA, driving schools and car clubs, as well as hosting music concerts and the like. During the 1980s the track fell into a state of disrepair, and both NASCAR and the IndyCar Series chose to drop it from the schedule. It continued to operate in a limited role for amateur racing. In 1993, the track reopened after a repaving and moderate refurbishment. It hosted a race for the ARCA series but due to the lack of modern facilities and amenities, it has since served as a circuit for amateur and club racing, along with private testing, and also hosts NASCAR teams' testing for Michigan International Speedway and California Speedway because of NASCAR conducting new 2006 restrictions prohibiting both tracks from being used for tests. With the 2009 NASCAR testing ban, the track expects more testing in the three national series because the track is not on any of the three circuits, and therefore is legal. During a January 2009 test, Greg Biffle hit 218-mile-per-hour (351 km/h) in a test for Roush Fenway Racing as part of evading NASCAR's testing ban. 2. Kit posted: 10.09.2010 - 2:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is a pretty significant sportbike track in Texas nowadays. 3. rob posted: 10.12.2011 - 5:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) saw the track via the versus coverage of the dodge viper cup. looks really bad. 4. AnonymousEFR posted: 04.15.2013 - 11:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah, this track is decreipt. Local events on the road courses, testing for the oval. 5. Billygrove posted: 05.19.2014 - 11:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) It looks like TWS has seen the end of the road. It is supposed to be plowed and turned into a housing development. I saw my first major stock car race when Mickey Gibbs won and perhaps DW's last major victory in the ARCA-Winston West companion event. The facility was in bad shape, but the track and the racing were real good. Much better racing than TMS just because of the layout of the track. Don't get me wrong, I still love TMS. Beautiful facility, track layout is OK. Thanks for the memories TWS. You will be missed by this Texan. 6. Anonymous posted: 03.18.2015 - 7:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) official announcement came today, The track will close in June of this year for good to become a housing community 7. Pucci Man posted: 03.19.2015 - 1:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Another track closed just to make more houses. Just like Riverside. UNBELIVABLE! 8. RaceFanX posted: 03.19.2015 - 1:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Shame to see it go but its glory days were behind it and major racing on the oval, or the road course for that matter, was unlikely to ever return. 9. RaceFanX posted: 03.19.2015 - 2:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Site of Darrell Waltrip's last major victory when he won the ARCA/Winston West combination race here in 1993, the final high level race on the track's high-banked oval. 10. joebev910 posted: 03.30.2015 - 5:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In 1993 Jeff Andretti broke the speed record here 11. Chriswo posted: 07.21.2015 - 11:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) At the end of 2015, Texas world speedway will be closed. 12. Travis Simpson posted: 10.18.2015 - 5:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Texas World will be closed for good in January 2016 and a new housing development called Southern Pointe will take its place. 13. Travis Simpson posted: 10.18.2015 - 5:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Texas World will be closed for good in January 2016 and a new housing development called Southern Pointe will take its place. 14. Big Mac Fan posted: 10.18.2015 - 6:23 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) My biggest question is why do they build it over a speedway? There's tons of empty land around College Station and in Texas in general, just build the development in another part of the area. 15. A posted: 03.01.2017 - 11:35 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) As of now, March 2017, there are still events at TWS with recent testing and sports car events. It still sounds like it could be the last year but it's closure has been delayed a few times now. 16. AJ Fan posted: 04.08.2017 - 11:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Maybe it will stick around longer. Who would want to live in College Station anyway? Just kidding - not an Aggie fan. It was a beautiful facility and should have been built where Texas Motor Speedway sits today, or where the Circuit of America is. A copy of Michigan, and later copied at Fontana CA. Maybe Willie Nelson can do another 4th of July picnic there again. It would keep it alive. 17. Sebastien posted: 09.24.2017 - 2:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Texas International Speedway (TIS) broke ground on march 20th 1969 and is a 6 million dollars Lawrence H. LoPatin's project. A 10 years agreement with Nascar was signed that year. November 9th 1969 saw its first professionnal race with the SCCA Can Am finale event of the 1969 season. Two Nascar GN race were planned for 1970, "Lone Star 400" scheduled for sunday june 11th, 1970 and "Texas 400" scheduled for sunday december 6th, 1970, both event were cancelled. A USAC "twin bill" doubleheader was scheduled for sunday october 11th, 1970, a 200 miles event for the Indy Championship cars and a 200 miles event for late model stock cars. It did not happen either. In late 1971, the track was renamed Texas World Speedway (TWS) after an owner change (Daniel W. Holloway). After that, the 1971 Nascar GN race was rescheduled 1 week after the original planned date. Scheduled events for that first weekend of december were "Texas Permatex 200" Nascar Late Models Sportsman (saturday 4th afternoon, first event of 1972 season calendar), "Alamo 200" for GT and Grand American type cars on new 2 miles road course (saturday 4th evening) and the Nascar GN "Texas 500" for sunday 5th (rained out). Tiny Lund entered all 3 events. 18. Rob posted: 03.27.2018 - 7:42 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What happened to cancel the November 1973 race ? 19. nascarman posted: 03.27.2018 - 8:46 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) The 1973 race was cancelled because of the Oil Embargo which went into effect in October 1973. When Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, the US supplied weapons to the Israeli military. In response to the military support, the Arab nations in OPEC stopped exporting oil to the US. By late October, it wasn't clear when the country would get more oil and gasoline so NASCAR felt it was unwise to run a 500 mile race in those conditiins. 20. Anonymous posted: 09.16.2018 - 12:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Apparently the asphalt in turn 1 has been broken up. 21. mikey25 posted: 12.03.2018 - 10:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm sad they're shutting down the track. It's such an awesome race track and it would've held great races especially today. Don't know why this track was overlooked and why no one seemed to care for it. It's just a derelict now and the surface is old and cracking with the grass and weeds poking out. Even if it is cut down for that neighborhood project, eventually nature will reclaim it. I hope some people can come together and save it. 22. possum posted: 12.03.2018 - 6:15 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @21 - not sure why you think it's an awesome track - the oval is Michigan with higher banking, if it was raceable today it would be plate track. Anyway, the history there is NASCAR went thru a period of popularity and strong fan growth in the 60's. Dover, Texas, and Ontario were all built to take advantage of that, and were completed just in time for the oil crisis and a crash in NASCAR's popularity. Dover survived thanks to the horse track (altho they came close to tearing up the NASCAR track). Texas had the misfortune of having been built too far from anywhere (i.e. Houston & Dallas) to draw a crowd, and the owners stopped putting money into it almost from the day it opened. By 1980 it was no longer considered safe, and when the owners refused NASCAR and USAC's demands to repair things, both series dropped it from the schedule. Since then it's just been a cycle of someone buying the place with grand plans, doing nothing, and eventually selling, while the property got more and more decayed. It can't be saved now. If you wanted to save it you needed to act 25 years ago. Now, even if you wanted a race track, you'd just plow it up and start from scratch. It's a ideal site for a developer, tho. Close to town, right on the major road, already has utilites, and you don't have to put together a property from several owners to get a big enough site. I'm surprised, really, it hasn't been transformed into housing long ago. 23. JohnG posted: 03.12.2019 - 7:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Nevermind just read #22. 24. JohnG posted: 03.12.2019 - 7:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Random question. Instead of creating Texas Motor Speedway wouldn't it have been cheaper to reopen Texas World? Why did they decide to create a new track? 25. KentuckyWildcat posted: 03.12.2019 - 8:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anyone wanting to see what this track was like.. here is a great upload of the 1993 Western Auto Shootout 300. I love the vibe this race gives you of the wild, wild west as you watch cars race around the track. Last major race ever ran at the tracks. Go to the link below and enjoy this great race of your favorite heros battle it out for the last true Texas checkered flag https://youtu.be/TRMK6E736D8 26. Seibaru posted: 04.22.2019 - 8:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Closed in mid 2015 to prepare for its demolition, however that fell through for the time being and racing returned. Closed for good in September 2017 to become a storage facility for cars displaced by Hurricane Harvey, and demolition began late last year after the cars' removal. 27. Anonymous posted: 07.01.2019 - 1:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Houses are now being built on the upper section of the road course. 28. RaceFanX posted: 04.14.2020 - 11:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The oval saw little use outside testing after the ARCA/NASCAR Winston West combination races here in 1992 and 1993. The roval course hosted the track's last high level races when the IMSA GT series came here for events in 1995 and 1996. In its later years it was mostly used for track days and the occasional low level event but the Viper Cup series (which was televised) ran here two races in 2011 to give it a final televised race of some note. 29. Canadianfan posted: 12.28.2020 - 1:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Alanis King on twitter toured around the Southern Pointe development which is slowly taking over what remains of the track. TWS's main entrance road will serve as one of several neighbourhood entrances. Two streets so far have track names Eldora Drive and Darlington Avenue. 30. RaceFanX posted: 01.15.2021 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @9 Correcting myself from about six years ago while Darrell Waltrip's 1993 win here in the ARCA/NASCAR Winston West combination race was the last major oval race here it wasn't DW's last win. He later won an ASA road course event at Heartland Park Topeka in 1994. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: