Champion Speedway Traditional Cache
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You seek a large stock bottle with log and swag at a site that was important in the very early days of NASCAR, but is now nearly forgotten.
According to the book, "Silent Speedways of the Carolinas", by Perry Allen Wood (2007, McFarland & Co.), this industrial park on Gillespie Road was once the location of the Champion Speedway, a third-mile concrete track the hosted three of the first seven races of the Grand National stock car racing season for 1958 and the first race of the 1959 season. Lee Petty, Buck Baker, and Rex White were just three of the legendary racers who competed on this track. Unfortunately, after 1959, the race was moved to the newly built track in Daytona, Florida, and never returned to Fayetteville. The old track was finally plowed under and used for fill in 1986. Some of the original concrete can still be seen in the lot behind Fayetteville Steel Erectors and Metal Buildings, but that and a bit of chain link fence is all that remains of Fayetteville's small stake in Stock Car Racing History.
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