www.unctv.org As our state's western region sheds its leaves as part of the fall season, one mountain community is celebrating a spring-like re-birth. Here's the story from Wilkes County. Rob Holliday reports. www.unctv.org
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@jamesdeanspyder7 жыл бұрын
Neat to see "Winston" on the pit walls again.
@kennethsmith89682 жыл бұрын
that will never happen.
@joelbeaudoin27614 жыл бұрын
Got excited until I saw the date :(
@justinbrumfield89262 жыл бұрын
Are u exited again lol
@joelbeaudoin27612 жыл бұрын
@@justinbrumfield8926 yes sir!
@sprintcarfan1210 жыл бұрын
The top 3 things NASCAR needs to do #1 bring back North Wilkesboro, #2 bring back Rockingham, and for god sake give Darlington it's second race back, WTF are you thinking NASCAR...Most fans want this, so give it back to us...let us see real racing again!!
@Melonhead3137 жыл бұрын
Amen
@xtravanzex73626 жыл бұрын
sprintcarfan12 TEXAS WORLD NASHVILLE The Nissans took over Nashville’s parking lot WILKEY THE ROCKINGHAM Nazareth I-70 will take a lot of work I MEAN A LOT!
@xtravanzex73626 жыл бұрын
sprintcarfan12 And another road course like Portland or something Road America
@ihavefallenandicantreachmy21135 жыл бұрын
XtraVanze X7 Wikipedia says I-70 is reopening next year, , using Clay, as the racing surface. I will believe it, when somebody, else, sees it.
@RedWingsninetyone4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a race at Nazareth too. But honestly, I'm good with Darlington having only one race. It's more meaningful this way.
@hakimselistocharil26442 жыл бұрын
North Wilkesboro Speedway is back 11 years later!
@Z64sports5 жыл бұрын
It's actually kinda cool to see a track being used while the walls are crumbling
@codybrown56954 жыл бұрын
Anybody here after the iRace? 😞
@waynebowen31338 жыл бұрын
this track helped nascar and made nascar .
@tonycagle62582 жыл бұрын
Best track ever besides Bristol! They need to bring it back! Can't wait to go again! Oldies but goodies never go away and die! Great for the sport!
@nascarcoffin910 жыл бұрын
Seeing this video makes me sad because this is the last race I ever ran before I got out of racing. BUT as sad as this makes me I was so happy to make this my last race.
@dennisbowen4525 жыл бұрын
atleast theres nr2003
@travisc84034 жыл бұрын
"The aesthetics aren't perfect" Nah, they're just incredible beyond the point of appreciation. It's amazing to see those old painted walls - it's like a living (and working..well, at least it could be) homage to the history of NASCAR
@dhariomartinez520610 жыл бұрын
I always visited that ghost town nearby and raced an old Pontiac... that's "Racing the way it outta be!"
@sc1212able8 жыл бұрын
Love this track, so sad its being cast in the shadows of the boring cookie cutter tracks, seeing Harry Gant in this video was awesome.
@zlinedavid5 жыл бұрын
And looked like he hadn't aged a day.
@suprchickn77454 жыл бұрын
He came to Columbus Motor Speedway with AJ Foyt and Geoff Bodine when I was a kid. Got all of their autographs too, great times!
@kennethsmith89682 жыл бұрын
@@zlinedavid he hasnt,lol.
@MrVerno19604 жыл бұрын
Its sad that these real Home Grown NASCAR tracks are going away. I see that IRacing has just scanned the track to add to their collection and save for history sake. Money again is the driving factor for the downfall of these great old tracks.
@AricAlmiroli4 жыл бұрын
Vern Orrell we need to bring back this track and also Rockingham too.
@MrVerno19604 жыл бұрын
@@AricAlmiroli I hope NASCAR can see the value and quality of racing that these type of tracks can offer, and applauded your energy to help revive them.
@dannyflay54654 жыл бұрын
IRacing kids scan it and they completely butchered it
@joep64804 жыл бұрын
@@dannyflay5465 It was actually Dale Jr. that had his hand in the scanning. The track was scanned as it is, cracked and broken but they smoothed it out digitally. Dale even says its just like racing the real thing but he might say that to promote it since it's probably an in game purchase. I haven't raced it on iRacing but I would imagine they did what they could to make it as original as they could.
@deannelson9565 Жыл бұрын
@@dannyflay5465 the reality is it was scanned and set up by Dale Earnhardt jr. If you have a problem that you can feel free to go fuc yourself! And yet here we sit 60 days out from Cup Series racing returning to North Wilkesboro so like I said feel free to go fuck yourself you petulant little cunt!
@KA-yi4re2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bennie you are reaching out from beyond. Loved his commentary.
@kristineelizabeth12775 жыл бұрын
Keeper going!!! We're getting ready to reopen i-70 speedway i tired many a laps there i my sprinter. A true family sport
@jimbest16852 жыл бұрын
We can enjoy good old country racing with out NASCAR
@bibbler2279 жыл бұрын
If NASCAR wanted the track open, there's an easy enough way to do it. Offer Smith a Cup date (non moveable for a period of 25 years) at NWS. PERIOD. As much as I hate Bruton, he does a hell of of job with the tracks he likes. With a little work, NWS could become another Bristol. Dangling a Cup race in front of Smith's face would be enough to get him to commit to refurbishing the track. He has no problem spending money as evidenced by the way he's pouring money into Kentucky, a boring cookie cutter....
@scottmoody70526 жыл бұрын
You do know that smith is in with the whole bunch that runs NASCAR right? He doesn't want any cup races their cause it will take away from his "big tracks"
@brewbaker55474 жыл бұрын
Who do you think got it closed in the first place?.
@Sky13 жыл бұрын
Who says it needs to be NASCAR?
@randomlyentertaining82872 жыл бұрын
@@Sky1 SMI, the people who own the track. lol
@stevenlitvinchyk88672 жыл бұрын
Thanl you Mrs. Parsons we up in New England New Benny loved the Modifieds
@gunandapackofsndwchs12 жыл бұрын
4:20 Harry Gant! Love you Harry! hahahaha Do you remember coming to San Antonio Speedway for an exhibition back in the 1980s? OMG! 800 gallons on Roundup...I wouldn't say that out loud.
@baja5bnutcase3057 жыл бұрын
I am in Canada and at the track in St Pie Quebec < Sanair> Its the same feeling. They decided no more top fuel at the drag strip so that was the end of the NHRA and so is tri-oval closed as well. Only a driving school and that is all. They do Friday night drag with the street cars but nothing to compared to what it was before.
@killrodx13 жыл бұрын
It's such a great feeling seeing this old track getting some use again after being inactive for so long. Perhaps one day I'll make a visit and see the place in person. As I use to watch NASCAR back in '93.
@arkansized4 жыл бұрын
My dad took me to Hialeah Speedway (dirt track) every Saturday night in the 50s. I graduated to NW when I went to the NC mountains to teach at East Wilkes HS in the 80s. Short track dirt racing would work at NW!
@jackhammerjt2 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the renovations to begin
@richardhenry73772 жыл бұрын
what do you mean.
@jackhammerjt2 жыл бұрын
@@richardhenry7377 tracks reopening again didn't you hear?
@richardhenry73772 жыл бұрын
I already got tickets
@N8_Spec9 жыл бұрын
Well at least she saw rubber one more time before being completely forgotten by her owner.
@24RulezJG13 жыл бұрын
It would be a BIG miracle if the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Return to North Wilkesboro Speedway.
@Sean-wj1wu7 жыл бұрын
Open wheel on that track has to be awesome !
@Sky14 жыл бұрын
They killed Rockingham as well. Many of us are looking into other race venues that does not include NASCAR or the France family.
@94nolo4 жыл бұрын
True. I'd rather watch F1 these days. And that's sad! I want my American stock car racing on something other than a 1.5 mile track! :(
@Av8trsfam8 жыл бұрын
Aand closes again. -_-
@TheSaltBoiCometh4 жыл бұрын
Av8trsfam depression amirite
@terribleshockex1103 жыл бұрын
Why and when was is re-shut down?
@coryhall19867 жыл бұрын
this is where I am from... and I miss this track so much... we need it open for the history of nascar
@smedlydumpsterjuice88756 жыл бұрын
so glad to see this. hope it continues.
@ralphhitchensjr.96337 жыл бұрын
Such a great track. So much history here. Tracks like this is where nascar started. Better racing than at the cookie cutter tracks.
@AlonsoRules7 жыл бұрын
cookie cutter tracks are a cancer
@ronaldshank7589 Жыл бұрын
NASCAR apparently forgot where they came from... And forgetting where they came from, could be their eventual demise!
@highflyingbird64672 жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see this happen, Hope North Wilkesboro goes from strength to strength! 🙂👍🏼👍🏼🏁🇺🇲
@10star95 жыл бұрын
Glad to see it open Great Lucky North Wilkesboro Speedway
@cecillyles26786 жыл бұрын
Although Nascar is one of the biggest stock car org. If you bring race cars of any level the people will come! Fans of stock car and drag racing will always come to see a race, always!
@DevonMopiedmont11432 жыл бұрын
2022 Racing returns again. Lets try to prove this track deserves life.
@Lazyboy515 жыл бұрын
Bring back this piece of History.. it defines NASCAR!
@ronaldshank7589 Жыл бұрын
Back then, when NASCAR raced their last race there, it was their thinking, of "Onto better things"..... and off they went. Now, NASCAR needs to come back to Wilkesboro. Period! In fact-They should've never left!
@william1218524 жыл бұрын
THANK , THANK YOU !!!
@eugenemalush92844 жыл бұрын
I loved that track!!!
@TearsPlays2 жыл бұрын
Would love this track back in nascar. would be a lot of work though, they would have to remodel the track, a LOT.
@calebsteimer51464 жыл бұрын
I’m so ready for it to be in iRacing
@dannyflay54654 жыл бұрын
I was too until I saw the track and they completely butchered it
@terrycastle66955 жыл бұрын
Thank you, MS.Parson's for reopening the track!!!! Benny would have been happy!!!!... Maybe will get the big boys back soon!!! If not at least there is racing going on....
@jacobfrech2884 жыл бұрын
Terry Castle it’s been closed since 2011 and is in awful condition I hope soon it will open again
@notpingu7072 жыл бұрын
Soon it will be actually
@satireguy85952 жыл бұрын
I got really excited then i saw the date 😞
@j_badach_xvi62615 жыл бұрын
Didn’t the track shut down again? 😞
@brettclark450810 жыл бұрын
That was pretty dirty of Briton Smith to do that. Money is what he cares about not NASCAR.
@aaronraymond59394 жыл бұрын
2020 iracing you can drive this track
@christiankuhr28502 жыл бұрын
i look at the date uploaded and its a sad day for me my mom passed on this day on that year
@bryandavis55364 жыл бұрын
Y’all need to do an update on the track since Dale Junior had it cleaned once again To bring Iracing to north Wilkesboro I sure miss these old tracks and bag them up beat up hard short track racing. What will the future hold
@CuzznRickH145 жыл бұрын
Put this track back on the circuit!
@flyer235913 жыл бұрын
Well damn... the track is closed again.
@roshnek1857 Жыл бұрын
AND NOW WE BACK BABY 2023
@CVetteMan11117 жыл бұрын
Go back in time just like they did with Darlington Raceway's throwback race. They need to turn back time. Make North Wilkesboro a dirt track again. Put it in the chase. Make them race for all they're worth on dirt for points in the chase. Make the races shorter. If they want to save the sport, they have to remember where they came from. Period. I only watch a hand full of races anymore. Daytona, Talladega, Bristol, Martinsville, Richmond, Texas, and Chicago. Oh and out of all of the races I watch, the big show isn't even a Nascar points race... It is the Prelude to the Dream on the dirt. I think this is what they need to do with NWB. That would be huge if Monster Energy, Goodyear, and a few other big time sponsors stepped up to the plate and turned back the clock. How awesome would that be seriously. To see these guys racing like moonshiners on a short track for big money and chase points? I'd drive there to see it! And I haven't been to a race since Dale Sr. died at Daytona.
@adamwilson20026 жыл бұрын
CVetteMan1111 dirt track? No
@CVetteMan11116 жыл бұрын
Why not? They throw dirt on the track surface at Bristol and race on it there? Not at the top level of course. But the racing is just as exciting. In fact it's more exciting. The playoff format is interesting. But it's not about those sort of changes. Road course races are terrible. Just put some dirt on the surface and then we can have races in the rain too. Make a few dirt races a year for pay-per-view and let the racing be real and the interactions between drivers be real. Let loose. Have a good time. This corporate suit and tie racing where everyone has to be super clean and never fight is horrible. There are many reasons the stands are empty at races. Turning back time fills the stands. That's a fact! Making the races shorter fills the stands. That's a fact! What we got right now, even with the infusion of Monster Energy and sexy victory circle girls IS STILL A DIEING SPORT. The only thing keeping it alive is handful of young bucks. Once Dale Jr leaves the sport the number of fans that are in the stands will shrink further still. That is a fact! Shorten the length of races may help a little, but we've got to let these guys be real. Be honest with yourself, NASCAR fans are STARVING to see more driver on driver contact, fights, accidents, more adrenaline filled racing, shorter races, more unique racing surfaces, you name it. Nascar really is NOT giving the fans what they want. They think they are, but they aren't. All you need to do is look at the stands. If they'll even show them to you.
@johnnyjames63846 жыл бұрын
I hope they bring it back
@alwaysopen79705 жыл бұрын
I don't care about NASCAR anymore and went to too many races in the 80s-90s. Richmond is my home track.
@mcskeet7512 жыл бұрын
Yet another great track taken away due to bruton smith... *sigh*
@Dleck621113 жыл бұрын
@dsnider2013 5 years seems fitting, they should have the race on the week of the 20th annversary of it's closure.... I'd love to see all 3 series (cup, NAtionwide and Trucks) race there...
@sstace694 жыл бұрын
About time!
@ryanborges589011 жыл бұрын
unless the grandstands are all replaced, the track is completely repaved, the facilities are all redone, safer barriers are put in, etc... its sad, but the track just can't meet modern standards anymore.
@alwaysopen79705 жыл бұрын
Jr could afford it.
@jacobfrech2884 жыл бұрын
alwaysopen your comment didn’t age well 😔
@Wolfie663 жыл бұрын
NASCAR should make North Wilkesboro a dirt track. It seemed to go over well in Bristol. I certainly enjoyed the Bristol race!
@king0cans4 жыл бұрын
Nascar was looking around. Yes they were. At the grandstands that Bruton soon sold....
@PanicTheManic114 жыл бұрын
9 years ago.
@jamesriley98003 жыл бұрын
If I was a company that owned a 1.5 mile track I would try to build a track like north Wilkesboro, and Rockingham
@terks4312 жыл бұрын
Sadly the sprint cup series will never come back
@racerevans222 жыл бұрын
got my hopes up for a second
@ChamplainDivision2 жыл бұрын
Very, VERY good news!
@brucefick9691 Жыл бұрын
Awesome 👌
@kennethburnett45472 жыл бұрын
This is a great race track one of the best ever race track yes
@reginaldhall68713 жыл бұрын
Nascar tried to grow to fast & threw half their fans to the curb. And the lack of attendance shows it
@Melonhead3134 жыл бұрын
The aesthetics were perfect and The track was a victim of Nascar killing itself.
@GalaxyGal-6 жыл бұрын
Bruton Smith needs to renovate this track for the next two years then bring cup back.
@84PatSch9 жыл бұрын
another lost track :-(
@germanshepherd137 жыл бұрын
great tracks like this close and they wonder why the grandstands are empty now. did you see how many empty seats there were at the brickyard? more than 50% empty. I was at the poconos last month and a lot of empty seats.. nascar is not what it used to be..
@alwaysopen79705 жыл бұрын
$$$$ prices.
@whiteymanngogh44895 жыл бұрын
They wouldn't even show the crowd on tv at today's Kansas race.
@randomlyentertaining82872 жыл бұрын
And a decade later, Dale Jr has to ask fans for help to clean up the track for it to be scanned. Thankfully, enough fuss seems to have been thrown for Marcus Smith, the current owner of SMI and thus NWB, to atleast seriously consider reopening NWB for a permanent NASCAR date.
@stevenlitvinchyk88672 жыл бұрын
I like to see Harry and Richard take a few laps !
@cooltechstuff43876 жыл бұрын
How about Bruton Smith give the race they just took from New Hampsire and give it to North Wilksburrow and They get rid of Atlanta and give it to Rockingham
@DERAOFFICIAL6 жыл бұрын
CoolTechStuff until 2021 that can’t happen or until the tracks are refurbished
@erich84502a4 жыл бұрын
Bring it back
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
nope
@fishhuntadventure4 жыл бұрын
will these bones live? That track is wide and interesting NASCAR needs to be interesting again
@Kordovaner13 жыл бұрын
It is sad because I love NWS but it had to be done some way because Nascar is trying to do everything to have more fans and this method needs new tracks on new places so more states are going to be covered with racing which will lead to more fans and money... I guess they can have only one pocono or loudon and have one NWS at the sprint cup.
@jimpanza14 жыл бұрын
Now I see that there was racing going on here. However watching a more recent documentary on North Wilkesboro Speedway it shows there is no racing going on. What happened with this group? Could they get another contract and continue racing? This si what is needed. Even if it is local racing series perhaps that would being the racing back.
@jwturner112912 жыл бұрын
People need to quit watching their races and buying their tickets then maybe they will listen. It sucks but a new Stock car association needs to be developed, NASCAR is killing stock car racing.
@sarahc.88383 жыл бұрын
bruh
@brianrogers8844 жыл бұрын
How about Indy race series
@tamezzodiac28625 жыл бұрын
9,000 just for a bunch of know names on a short track. NASCAR doesn’t realize this was one of NASCAR’s most popular tracks and was always full.
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
your Comparison is like a High school football field vs. a NFL stadium.
@tamezzodiac28624 жыл бұрын
WALTERBROADDUS but it was a late model race usually those are empty. It shows people still want to see racing there.
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
@@tamezzodiac2862 People have more sports choices today. Nascar's era of old; is also the era before football and baseball expansion. Before SEC college sports.
@mikemalone94042 жыл бұрын
Dale, PLEASE start another racing division, and go back regular old racing! That's what made it great...at one time!
@jamestone2654 жыл бұрын
If I had the $$$$ I'd take off the pavement, bring in a lot of clay and have one hell of a 5/8 mile dirt track. Super late models, Late models, Pro/Super stocks, Super Modifieds, Modifieds, WoO's, Sprints, Midgets, etc. racing every weekend. Get it into the hands of Tony Steward and have another Eldora.....
@archerlarry6434 жыл бұрын
Dirt is for farming, asphalt is for racing!!!!!
@hightech6213 жыл бұрын
thank nascar for forgetting it's roots and snubbing it's nose at the very people who made it what it is today. to race cup cars again at wilkesboro and rockingham would be a concession to the greed that caused the abandonment of both of these great tracks in nascar's home state.
@GetBenched20103 жыл бұрын
To think the France family actually thought NASCAR could compete head to head with the NFL and win by abandoning their fanbase. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
@desrextransport69975 жыл бұрын
Well it would be wise of Nascar to come back to North Wilksboro... it would be the only track in the season with a full attendance!
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
Wrong...
@donaldbartram63155 жыл бұрын
Modifieds & other classes of racing are so much more exciting to watch then the Monster Cup/Xfinity
@SOU69004 жыл бұрын
Nice that this track will live one on in iRacing. All the money just to reopen the track for just a few years gone to waste. At least reopen it as a Saturday night local short track or something like that is what I think they should do at the very least.
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
There is no market.
@marcuskajer56154 жыл бұрын
@@WALTERBROADDUS ARCA races in minnesota at a tiny track, why cant they race here?
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
@@marcuskajer5615 North Wilkesboro is doomed by location. Charlotte is a 1 1/2 hour away. Bristol is 2 hours. Martinsville is 11/2 hours drive. There is zero need for A track .......
@121211497 жыл бұрын
Bruton Smith,only cares about $$$$$$$.He is losing lot's of them now,with almost every Track he owns,having small crowds,just sayin'
@brewbaker55474 жыл бұрын
Pete Smith Humpy Wheeler needs his own series. Would be better racing for 1/3 the cost. Cars would be competitive and the hotdogs would even be better. NASCAR likes to take sponsorship money small teams used to get and put their name on the wall rather than on the side of the cars. where they belong. Television would not say it but Texas and Lasvegas only had 30 to 40,000 people. About the size crowd North Wilkesboro had when it was closed down. Now they have taken Labor Day from Darlington. The oldest speedway they still race on and has raced Labor Day since the first year. No sense of tradition, or respect for its fans just glitz and glamour of fancy tracks.Bristols night race only sold about half its tickets this year. Hell might as well close it and put a soccer field in the middle. You can bet Big Bill isn’t resting easy. That only cost 2 cents. At least I have my Sunday afternoons free to do something useful now.
@howtobebasic21224 жыл бұрын
it closed again in 2011
@deweyseymour42684 жыл бұрын
Stands didn't look full like IN THE DAY
@therealslimshady36623 жыл бұрын
Why not make another stock car association? Run Gen 4 or 5 chassis with all the safety of a modern stockcar, but let the teams decide which body they want to put on top of them? Everything that ever drove in NASCAR should go (maybe except charger daytona's and the likes) so they can choose anything from oldschool 70's boxes to more modern 90's styles or even 50's bodies? as long as the safety precautions are there, let them have at it.
@xtravanzex73626 жыл бұрын
Then it closed
@seanlavelle1034 жыл бұрын
Yea it's a shame that didn't last
@randywb79724 жыл бұрын
Nascar has changed cars how many times in the last several years to make racing better at the 1.5 mile tracks. Still sorry ass racing there. they could open NWS and The Rock and have good racing day one.
@richardb17207 жыл бұрын
Get rid of Kentucky that race sucks! Bring back North Wilkesboro!
@LD-me4qv7 жыл бұрын
Richard B NOT KENTUCKY ( THATS MY HOME TRACK ) NEW HAMPSHIRE
@SpaceGhost9995 жыл бұрын
I was just at NWS today. It will never be back. It's literally falling on itself just like Bruton Smith wants.
@b3njam1n994 жыл бұрын
Gameplayer88 NO NEW HAMPSHIRE IS MY HOME (SONOMA
@VSNVanny4 жыл бұрын
Don't get rid of Sonoma
@kbaker39594 жыл бұрын
Ploke Newo78 No. Get rid of one of the texas races
@Mike-vt6nc5 жыл бұрын
This is the first dam thing nascar needs to do to rebuild it’s popularity go back to what wasn’t broke its diehard fan base tracks that built the sport in the first place !!!
@raginOKCTHUNDER4 жыл бұрын
This video didn’t age well! It’s so sad that it’s abandoned now.
@thecoop4884 жыл бұрын
This place can bring In so much money if they bring it back to life. Don’t believe me look up why getting rid of North Wilkesboro wha nascar worse decision
@WALTERBROADDUS4 жыл бұрын
No It can't. It will never out sell the other tracks. The location sucks.And the Sports fan base that cares, is over 60.....
@JJA19874 жыл бұрын
WALTERBROADDUS SUCKS
@joshmartel92717 жыл бұрын
New Hampshire is a great track
@erich84502b4 жыл бұрын
9000 fans
@washguy95775 жыл бұрын
It really does seem like NASCAR was like screw it we don't care and they should make it a racing Museum or something but just to leave it there to rot dam
@alwaysopen79705 жыл бұрын
There are a couple of tracks in central Maryland they raced at that became ghost track; Upper Marlboro and Aquasco. Both are short tracks and Petty won a lot of them.