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108: 36: 870:, about 12 miles south of the Asheville-Weaverville Speedway. This track was closed after the track owners sold the track in 1998 to RiverLink, an organization that promoted making the French Broad River area of Asheville a public park. New Asheville became Carrier Park, with its racetrack becoming a banked concrete bicycle track. 280:
The track was closed in 1970, until North Buncombe High School was built on the property. In the 1970s and 1980s the track was used as softball fields and sports practice fields. The track itself had been disabled by first placing earthen barriers on opposite sides of the track, and later, concrete
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wanted that track to be closed in a poll done in the summer of 1987. However, by that time, the track had already been physically disabled for racing purposes.
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An anti-noise ordinance was used to shut down the track after years of racing; this fight was staged as early as the
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when a group of citizens petitioned their city council to shut down the track. 75% of people who read the
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The Asheville-Weaverville Speedway is not to be confused with the "New Asheville Speedway", which was a
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and progress forced the property to be closed, demolished, and re-zoned for educational purposes.
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Buildings and structures in Buncombe County, North Carolina
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Winners of the circuit during the Grand National Series.
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Weaverville, NC
Coordinates
35°44′19″N 82°33′31″W / 35.738671°N 82.558649°W / 35.738671; -82.558649
Grand National Series
oval track
Weaverville, North Carolina
NASCAR
Winston Cup Series
1951
1969
Richard Petty
Bob Flock
Fonty Flock
Lee Petty
Rex White
Fireball Roberts
oval track
Banjo Matthews
Ralph Earnhardt
Junior Johnson
Cotton Owens

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