I used to film the weekly races there from 2005 to 2011 from the platform above the announcer's booth that you access from that ladder and roof hatch in there. Odd seeing the place in that state but it still brings back good memories of all the Friday nights spent there. The videos I filmed there are on my channel if you wanted to see the place before it closed.
It is so sad to me to see the sport dying like it is. My favorite track is just not getting the crowds it used to. They are still doing pretty good but who knows how long it can last. Two other area tracks are just hanging on by a thread. I have been to them when there were not 200 people there. One was even offering free admission to people from one city or another on special days just to try and draw people in.
@@NascarFanSince No its not the fans. Its the cost. Its getting to expensive to operate a track, too expensive to run a race car, and that cant be made up with gate revenue. Once the car counts drop, its all over. Also, the way NASCAR has got away from what made it successful doesnt help. There's still lots of short tracks that are thriving under good ownership. Nascar fan since 73'
This place was remarkable as far as an abandoned location. Nature reclaiming its own inside our man made venues. If you guys enjoyed the video, leave a thumbs up! This was definetly one of my favorite explores from this year. I'm wishing all that view a Happy New Year's! As we aren't slowing down this year ! Thanks for watching !
So that tape you found around the 17 minute mark is a betamax or betacam tape, probably betacam a very common broadcast format until the mid 2000s, very cool and not VHS at all. Still awesome you found it though
I’m from Pennsylvania and I remember the racetrack at Dorney park for stock cars , and the Nazareth speedway. Both gone,many good times I had at both. I’ve never been to this one. Thank you !
@@amerbooboo1... it’s still there I was there in June. Nature has completely reclaimed it, all bleachers removed, you can’t even tell what it was anymore. Sad
It's honestly mind blowing how everything was just left behind! I recently bought a race track that was out of operation for a couple of years. I'm so excited to try to bring it back to life.
Wow, the memories I have of this place. Spent many Friday nights here with my father. I even remember seeing a car hop the infield wall on the backstretch and take out someone's personal vehicle. So sad to hear it is no more.
10s of thousands of dollars of racing memorabilia there. Used to go there in the 70's to see my favorite drivers like LJ Dennis, Blackie Watt, and Russ Redshaw.
I agree. Great explore. As a Nascar fan and a self confessed car nut, I loved seeing the old memorabilia like tickets, stickers, banners, etc. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool, I love your videos man. For some reason it's so cool to see the old abandoned properties. Almost like it's a weird gateway to the past I guess.
Thank You for entertaining us through 2021. Like last year ,this year couldn't have been that much easier and I for one appriciate your dedication. Have a great festive season and Happy New Year Regards, Dafydd
Big fan here! Been watching your videos for a while and finally decided to subscribe. I live in Connecticut so a lot of the places you go to I'm familiar with. Keep up the good work!
The opening crash was Chuck Kennedy, I was there that night. And where you opened your video, up in the back stretch VIP box, that was rented by Rose Lumber. I used to watch races every weekend from that very spot with my mom and dad, with the Rose family. Very awesome people... I miss those days so much....
I remember when it was dirt! I remember when Charlie Swartz raced there along with John Holt, Lynn Geisler, Mark Banal, John Johnson, Bucky Johnson, and ....
Very fun to go along with you in this very well made video! The vehicle you encountered at about 9:45 is a street-sweeper. Maybe they used it to clean the track and/or pit areas?
I remember going there as a kid from 2005 to even 2014. It looks so different now. I have a lot of good memories there. Thats where i was able to watch local racing as i fell in love with it. Thank you for making this video
That was a pretty cool explore. Although I don't really watch NASCAR it is still really neat to see these places after they close down, especially cool things like that old Gatorade sign.
Thanks for the video. Only was there once during its pavement days. I was helping local E-Mod driver John "Peanuts" Yunstince. Took a night off from wrenching on sprint cars. My dad was a sprint car fan and I took him to an All-Star Circuit of Champions race when I was 16 back in 83 or 84. Saw an ad in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that they were running there and that really started a great journey. I think Kenny Jacobs won the race in the 4J. Got to see Keith Kaufman in the big block powered Hamilton 77, Dave Blaney in the 10 car, Steve Smith Sr, Joe Saldana etc.. Got to see the guy I would work for on his sprint car some 7 years later, John Stickley in the L-7 sprint car. I worked on his car in the western Pa. circuit from 1990 to roughly 2005. Lots of great memories. That one night taking my dad to the race started something special. Thank again.
You know. NASCAR drivers and you have something in common. Giant, brass balls. It takes alotta guts to drive that fast. And it takes alotta guts to explore where you explore. Lotta balls. And a lotta guts.
I am from Canada and went to this speedway in 2012. So sad to see it has been shut down. The racing was awsome and very very fast. Great Video from you guys. Wayne from Canada
I have many good memories from the days of dirt. I never took my ride out when they had that option. I did do PID and Sharron a few times.. Good times!
Bro this i say was another great video I really enjoyed watching this one the best I liked all the other ones But this one is the best I helped a neighbor buddy of mine in gocart racing for a number of years Also went to demolition derby and races cars racing Never One like this one perfect one to finish my day Loved it bro Happy New year to you Fireman 🔥🔥🔥
Happy New Year I hope you had a Wonderful Xmas and I can't wait to see what 2022 has in store for you ... Keep the explorations coming love them ... Much love from CT
This is really depressing. 30 years ago we used to go and watch Charging Charlie Cragan and the rest compete every weekend during racing season. Sprint cars on Friday night at Lernerville (Looneyville) and late model stocks at Motordrome on Saturdays.
I live not to far away from here I was just there a few weeks ago it went up for sale and sadly it’s starting to be demolished the grand stands aren’t there anymore but the buildings are.
I was there the night of that crash in the opening scene. We were parked right there by turn 4. I would have been 12 at the time. I remember the flames shooting up after the car smashed into the wall. It was one of the coolest/scariest things I had seen in my life (at that time). We used to go every Friday night. It is a shame that this place has turned into what it is today. Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of memories. C and C Lumber night! We always got to ride in the back of the delivery trucks when we took a lap around the track!
Bedford fairgrounds on Wed. North Hills Speedway on Thurs. Clearfield on Fri. Smuckers on Sat. Motordrome on Sunday. Raced 5 dsys a week back then. The pits were up on the top above turn 4.
Excellent photography ! Ethan you said exactly what I was thinking how much you loved how nature has taken over. It is beautiful. This was a very good video. Have a great New Year and Chris as well !
I can confirm the official shut done at the end of 2015 I was a member of one of the modified race teams that raced here that year the story that I got was the promoter ran out of money or ran off with the sponsor money for 2016 I've heard it told both ways and had a two-year contract with the track owner there by nobody else could take over the track and he had disappeared the end of 2015 so the track didn't reopen for the 2016 season and has set every since
I used to take my little brother here a few Friday nights every summer. We grew up about 3 miles up the river from the track, and the sound would carry right up the valley.
I've seen a few different coverages/backgrounds on this place and IMO, I'm shocked it stayed open till 2016! Did I hear that correctly? Compared to places like the mega millions Talladega, even in 2016 - those suites and that track were super outdated. Great video though
Man It would be awesome to have some banners and bumper stickers that old in the shop and on the toolbox! Even the beer posters are cool to me, I can’t believe all plaques and everything just dropped and left. They need a rightful home somewhere covered and the story will stay preserved. Definitely a talking point!
I remember back when I was little I went to that same track in West Newton, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh with my dad and friends who I brought with me. Those were great times and it sucks that they abandoned that place because it was actually fun there. I don’t know if the owners of the track passed away or something else. 8 years later I was 9, now I’m 17 and almost an adult. I miss that place. Hope someone will buy it one of these days!
It is sold and will be leveled soon. Another track in the area purchased the main grandstand. I went to this track a lot in the 1970's when it was dirt.
Am in utter disbelief that someone hasn't gone in & snatched up all the memorabilia, souvenirs, & collectibles that were housed in the office building? My lord, hope all that merchandise is salvaged & saved by collectors before every structure on the grounds is destroyed & removed. A shameful waste to say the least. Not into racing, yet this is a COOL video!
We think of man-made structures as permanent and impervious obstacles to nature that will weather the storm, but the reality is that as soon as any structure or thing is no longer maintained, it is expeditiously reclaimed by the land with no mercy.
We need another Cleetus McFarland type to come along and buy this track and give it a Freedom Factory overhaul. Bring racing back to these old tracks and give life back to these often forgotten pieces of national and local history.
It really is astonishing that of all the owners, investers, managers, staff and patrons of that place over the years, so many things were left behind that could have made great memorabilia or be repurposed.
This reminds me of abandoned movie theaters. Same empty social theme of what life was before the internet and Covid ruined my world. Life after people.
I used to help a guy who raced there when I was a kid spent every Friday night there from the early 90s to early 2000s it’s sad that this place just got left behind an now is torn down
Unfortunate that people feel the need to smash out windows and trash these places. The place did matter to a lot of people at one point in time. Lively atmosphere with hundreds of people there on race night. Good video.
I was at a VW/Audi event called Oktoberfest. That would have been sometime around 2013 or 2014. So not long after the track closed. It certainly wasn't that bad back then. But it explains the Fahrvergnugen and Mr. Bubblehead on the platform in the infield.
I used to film the weekly races there from 2005 to 2011 from the platform above the announcer's booth that you access from that ladder and roof hatch in there. Odd seeing the place in that state but it still brings back good memories of all the Friday nights spent there. The videos I filmed there are on my channel if you wanted to see the place before it closed.
You should upload them.
oh, u did lol
I did watch one of your races, hard to believe the place fell apart like this in just a few years
cant believe 2011 was 11 years ago
It is so sad to me to see the sport dying like it is. My favorite track is just not getting the crowds it used to. They are still doing pretty good but who knows how long it can last. Two other area tracks are just hanging on by a thread. I have been to them when there were not 200 people there. One was even offering free admission to people from one city or another on special days just to try and draw people in.
As a Nascar fan, it's sad to see these tracks are not being used anymore.
Another fellow Nascar fan lets gooo
@@NascarFanSince No its not the fans. Its the cost. Its getting to expensive to operate a track, too expensive to run a race car, and that cant be made up with gate revenue. Once the car counts drop, its all over. Also, the way NASCAR has got away from what made it successful doesnt help. There's still lots of short tracks that are thriving under good ownership. Nascar fan since 73'
@@tornadoalleystudios2283 its also nascar moving onto other tracks bigger ones
It is sad to see these old speedways abandoned 🙁🙁🙁🙁
ya, its a shame they leave these tracks like this, why dont they use them for charity events, or something?
This place was remarkable as far as an abandoned location. Nature reclaiming its own inside our man made venues. If you guys enjoyed the video, leave a thumbs up! This was definetly one of my favorite explores from this year. I'm wishing all that view a Happy New Year's! As we aren't slowing down this year ! Thanks for watching !
Where was this
Happy and Safe New Years to you 🙂
So that tape you found around the 17 minute mark is a betamax or betacam tape, probably betacam a very common broadcast format until the mid 2000s, very cool and not VHS at all. Still awesome you found it though
Happy New Year Buddy thanks for your content love what ya do stay safe
WELL DONE. ! ! ! EXCELLENT AUDIO AND VIDEO EDITING ! ! ! GAVE ME GOOD TIME VIBES ! ! !
I’m from Pennsylvania and I remember the racetrack at Dorney park for stock cars , and the Nazareth speedway. Both gone,many good times I had at both. I’ve never been to this one. Thank you !
I was thinking of Nazareth Speed way I'm from Allentown Pennsylvania
@@amerbooboo1... it’s still there I was there in June. Nature has completely reclaimed it, all bleachers removed, you can’t even tell what it was anymore. Sad
Where was this speedway?
It's honestly mind blowing how everything was just left behind! I recently bought a race track that was out of operation for a couple of years. I'm so excited to try to bring it back to life.
That’s awesome you bought a track. Good luck with it. The track I worked at for 10 years in AZ just closed down in Nov.
@@kiernanchurch5193 Thank you so much! It's a full time job already! I'm sorry to hear that yours closed.
That’s great! Which track did you buy?
@@hunt7572 it's called Nevada Speedway, a dirt track in Missouri.
bring this 1 back as well
I raced on and off for 10 years at this great track. It breaks my heart to see it in this condition
Where this track located?
Ok know I know. Been there many times growing up. Sad to see it look like this it's been 9 years since I was last there
@@steelersnation43T. do you know how to look up something? why are u asking someone for the location look it up
im sorry😟
i remember u u race at jtown now sometimes now right
Wow, the memories I have of this place. Spent many Friday nights here with my father. I even remember seeing a car hop the infield wall on the backstretch and take out someone's personal vehicle. So sad to hear it is no more.
10s of thousands of dollars of racing memorabilia there. Used to go there in the 70's to see my favorite drivers like LJ Dennis, Blackie Watt, and Russ Redshaw.
i saved a few things from there before the construction company moved in.
I agree. Great explore. As a Nascar fan and a self confessed car nut, I loved seeing the old memorabilia like tickets, stickers, banners, etc. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool, I love your videos man. For some reason it's so cool to see the old abandoned properties. Almost like it's a weird gateway to the past I guess.
Thank you! Well said
Great explore! In amazing condition with minimal amount of vandalism. People just left it alone after it closed down.
You are such a breath of fresh air to watch . True talent and passion. Your smile and excitement for what you do is so contagious. Never stop !!!!!
Thank You for entertaining us through 2021. Like last year ,this year couldn't have been that much easier and I for one appriciate your dedication. Have a great festive season and Happy New Year Regards, Dafydd
i know an old man who used to race there, bob stanford, he raved about the place. PA needs its own cletus mcfarland to save this place.
Big fan here! Been watching your videos for a while and finally decided to subscribe. I live in Connecticut so a lot of the places you go to I'm familiar with. Keep up the good work!
The opening crash was Chuck Kennedy, I was there that night. And where you opened your video, up in the back stretch VIP box, that was rented by Rose Lumber. I used to watch races every weekend from that very spot with my mom and dad, with the Rose family. Very awesome people... I miss those days so much....
I remember when it was dirt! I remember when Charlie Swartz raced there along with John Holt, Lynn Geisler, Mark Banal, John Johnson, Bucky Johnson, and ....
Very fun to go along with you in this very well made video!
The vehicle you encountered at about 9:45 is a street-sweeper. Maybe they used it to clean the track and/or pit areas?
Thank you for the compliment! That makes sense. Thanks for your comment
Awesome, I used to live less than 10 miles from this track.
i may or may not have taken a few souvenirs when i went such as a few trophies, the fiber glass cowl induction hood and some banners and some flags
I remember going there as a kid from 2005 to even 2014. It looks so different now. I have a lot of good memories there. Thats where i was able to watch local racing as i fell in love with it. Thank you for making this video
Like the "hop-over-the-counter" transitions. Nice work; keep it up!
That was a pretty cool explore. Although I don't really watch NASCAR it is still really neat to see these places after they close down, especially cool things like that old Gatorade sign.
Thanks for the video. Only was there once during its pavement days. I was helping local E-Mod driver John "Peanuts" Yunstince. Took a night off from wrenching on sprint cars. My dad was a sprint car fan and I took him to an All-Star Circuit of Champions race when I was 16 back in 83 or 84. Saw an ad in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that they were running there and that really started a great journey. I think Kenny Jacobs won the race in the 4J. Got to see Keith Kaufman in the big block powered Hamilton 77, Dave Blaney in the 10 car, Steve Smith Sr, Joe Saldana etc.. Got to see the guy I would work for on his sprint car some 7 years later, John Stickley in the L-7 sprint car. I worked on his car in the western Pa. circuit from 1990 to roughly 2005. Lots of great memories. That one night taking my dad to the race started something special. Thank again.
RIP Peanuts. Such a great and talented guy!
Very cool video. I wish I would have been their for a race or two. Thanks for all the videos in 2021. Happy new year
16:27 legit thought a monster pooped on the wall in there
Great video. How sad seeing a lot of things still in place, just up and gone and closed down
Wow I remember all the fun times I had at this track. Sure do miss going there on Friday nights.
Loved the video have a few memories of this place growing up as a kid
Great music mix to the video. Thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Thanks.
Cleatus needs to buy this the freedom factory 2.0 lol
You know. NASCAR drivers and you have something in common. Giant, brass balls. It takes alotta guts to drive that fast. And it takes alotta guts to explore where you explore. Lotta balls. And a lotta guts.
So much cool stuff left behind! Hope you took some stuff home. No harm in that!😃
Explored this a year ago. You have great footage I missed out on seeing the stands and most of the buildings😢. Ty for sharing .
I am from Canada and went to this speedway in 2012. So sad to see it has been shut down. The racing was awsome and very very fast. Great Video from you guys. Wayne from Canada
I have many good memories from the days of dirt. I never took my ride out when they had that option. I did do PID and Sharron a few times.. Good times!
Bro this i say was another great video I really enjoyed watching this one the best I liked all the other ones But this one is the best I helped a neighbor buddy of mine in gocart racing for a number of years Also went to demolition derby and races cars racing Never One like this one perfect one to finish my day Loved it bro Happy New year to you
Fireman 🔥🔥🔥
Happy New Year I hope you had a Wonderful Xmas and I can't wait to see what 2022 has in store for you ... Keep the explorations coming love them ... Much love from CT
This is really depressing. 30 years ago we used to go and watch Charging Charlie Cragan and the rest compete every weekend during racing season. Sprint cars on Friday night at Lernerville (Looneyville) and late model stocks at Motordrome on Saturdays.
Love the opening!! Great video.
My parents took me and my brother there as kids. Your video brought back some good memories.
Cool video :D Thank You! And damn. you nailed it with the background music/'soundtrack'!! Really good choise IMO ♥♥♥
This is the reason I go to you tube. Just for the videos you post. I love the history. Please keep posting.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT VIDEO AND EDUCATION. THANKS FOR SHARING. I LEARNED SO MUCH.
I live not to far away from here I was just there a few weeks ago it went up for sale and sadly it’s starting to be demolished the grand stands aren’t there anymore but the buildings are.
Cool video! Very cool indeed! Thanks!
Haha nice, on the table is write : VW Fahrvergnügen 😅
Thanks for upload and greetings from Bavaria
We enjoyed the dirt tack era, wasn't much into asphalt... It was a great place!!!!!
Enjoyed it! Thanks for bringing us along.
I was there the night of that crash in the opening scene. We were parked right there by turn 4. I would have been 12 at the time. I remember the flames shooting up after the car smashed into the wall. It was one of the coolest/scariest things I had seen in my life (at that time). We used to go every Friday night. It is a shame that this place has turned into what it is today. Thanks for the video, brought back a lot of memories. C and C Lumber night! We always got to ride in the back of the delivery trucks when we took a lap around the track!
😪really sad - such a great track too. Thank you for this though. I spent a lot of hours here/there. Video is well done - Thank you.
Bedford fairgrounds on Wed. North Hills Speedway on Thurs. Clearfield on Fri. Smuckers on Sat. Motordrome on Sunday. Raced 5 dsys a week back then. The pits were up on the top above turn 4.
Such great memories. I helped build and maintain a modified that raced there for three years. 🏁😢
Excellent photography ! Ethan you said exactly what I was thinking how much you loved how nature has taken over. It is beautiful. This was a very good video. Have a great New Year and Chris as well !
I absolutely love this track in NR2003.
I didn't even know it was closed and in this shaped until now..
Thank you for your video, it's sad to see this go unused , and everything abandoned this way.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!! AWSOME
Great explore, can't belive all that stuff is still inside. Definitely would love to see this place myself
I can confirm the official shut done at the end of 2015 I was a member of one of the modified race teams that raced here that year the story that I got was the promoter ran out of money or ran off with the sponsor money for 2016 I've heard it told both ways and had a two-year contract with the track owner there by nobody else could take over the track and he had disappeared the end of 2015 so the track didn't reopen for the 2016 season and has set every since
👍🏻 your content is so dope! I’m so glad I found your channel!! keep em coming!!
I used to take my little brother here a few Friday nights every summer. We grew up about 3 miles up the river from the track, and the sound would carry right up the valley.
Pretty cool spot...nice seeing the memorabilia left there...✌🏻
All these photos, banners, plaques etc need to be preserved for this places history before it's too far gone.
I've seen a few different coverages/backgrounds on this place and IMO, I'm shocked it stayed open till 2016!
Did I hear that correctly?
Compared to places like the mega millions Talladega, even in 2016 - those suites and that track were super outdated.
Great video though
Man It would be awesome to have some banners and bumper stickers that old in the shop and on the toolbox! Even the beer posters are cool to me, I can’t believe all plaques and everything just dropped and left. They need a rightful home somewhere covered and the story will stay preserved. Definitely a talking point!
Great job , excellent video, sad but very well done
I remember back when I was little I went to that same track in West Newton, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh with my dad and friends who I brought with me. Those were great times and it sucks that they abandoned that place because it was actually fun there. I don’t know if the owners of the track passed away or something else. 8 years later I was 9, now I’m 17 and almost an adult. I miss that place. Hope someone will buy it one of these days!
16:22 damn bro someone took a big one💀
It would be interesting to visit this track in 10 years. You are my favorite explorer keep up the good work 👏 🙌
It is sold and will be leveled soon. Another track in the area purchased the main grandstand. I went to this track a lot in the 1970's when it was dirt.
Will be apartments probably in 10 years
Love the video man..... It's so sad how racing is dying.
Only NASCAR is dying. Dirt racing is as strong as it has ever been.
Am in utter disbelief that someone hasn't gone in & snatched up all the memorabilia, souvenirs, & collectibles that were housed in the office building? My lord, hope all that merchandise is salvaged & saved by collectors before every structure on the grounds is destroyed & removed. A shameful waste to say the least. Not into racing, yet this is a COOL video!
We think of man-made structures as permanent and impervious obstacles to nature that will weather the storm, but the reality is that as soon as any structure or thing is no longer maintained, it is expeditiously reclaimed by the land with no mercy.
Like you man i like how nature retakes stuff its just cool to look at almost therapeutic really
Very close to where I live. I've seen races on dirt and pavement. I forgot it was there. Good explore.
Great stuff. I love your videos, but at the same time, they make me a little sad as.well
Prior to being paved, Friday nights hosted motocross events in the infield section. It was like a supercross track. That was probably mid-eighties.
Those big signs are worth some serious coin
Awesome video, Dude!
Awesome find
Great intro and what a cool place. Sad that it closed though and it just rots.
great vidio i really like ur perspective of these places
I grew up in the area and Friday nights at Motordrome were tradition, sad to see it like this.
A speedway is one of the riskiest businesses . they now have other Saturday night speedways in the Pitsburgh area.
great video !
Love these kind of videos I live in jonesboro Tennessee and I don't live to far from Bristol speedway Bristol Tennessee
We need another Cleetus McFarland type to come along and buy this track and give it a Freedom Factory overhaul. Bring racing back to these old tracks and give life back to these often forgotten pieces of national and local history.
It really is astonishing that of all the owners, investers, managers, staff and patrons of that place over the years, so many things were left behind that could have made great memorabilia or be repurposed.
This reminds me of abandoned movie theaters.
Same empty social theme of what life was before the internet and Covid ruined my world. Life after people.
Agreed. Seeing where hundreds/ thousands sat now empty is something else
I used to help a guy who raced there when I was a kid spent every Friday night there from the early 90s to early 2000s it’s sad that this place just got left behind an now is torn down
Unfortunate that people feel the need to smash out windows and trash these places. The place did matter to a lot of people at one point in time. Lively atmosphere with hundreds of people there on race night. Good video.
My father-in-law would have been watching that race. He was an avid NASCAR fan.
@jennerstownspeedwayllc 12:26,, 15:50 16:04 that would make a great display at the track the ones before i think as like a memory of motordrome
I was at a VW/Audi event called Oktoberfest. That would have been sometime around 2013 or 2014. So not long after the track closed. It certainly wasn't that bad back then. But it explains the Fahrvergnugen and Mr. Bubblehead on the platform in the infield.
Great video
Made a trip there one time and took lots of pics when Motordrome and Jennerstown were sister tracks
We can ask cleetus MCfarland If je put's the place together and doe's burnout's there... Good find and well done. Thank's for youre work...
Seems that NASCAR grew and this track didn't so it got left behind...be cool to see it brought back to life.
I was last here in 2011 for an Enduro race that they had. Was not the best race, but the track is great. Crazy in just 11 years it’s become like this.
Enjoyed going there, so sad to see this now...
Amazing how they just left it all, kinda like a time capsule
great pictures