Its paved now, but when I was a kid it was dirt. David Pearson, Tiny Lund, and others who made it to the big time started out there.
Dale Earnhardt's daddy, Ralph's name is on the wall as a past track champion.
I still remember those Saturday nights--- getting home late after the race, and still having to sit in the tub to soak off the red dust from the track so I would be clean for church on Sunday morning.
No, I’ve never been there, but my husband may have gone up there before we were married. Nowadays we stick to dirt, no asphalt for us.
There’s a lot of nights we’ll get in the shower after the races and watch the water run red as you wash all that dirt off you.