For whatever reason, I've always had a fascination with closed racetracks. There's just something about the mystique that draws me in. Whether I'm reading about a track in Allan Brown's History of America's Speedways or whether I'm looking for an old oval on Google maps, the mystery surrounding the track simply grabs my attention.

It's hard to say when or how exactly this happened. Perhaps it's because several of the tracks I grew up attending, such as R&R Speedway in Zanesville, Ohio, would MORE