Texas World Speedway

The asphalt that used to be here was two miles around, banked twenty-two degrees in the turns, with a grandstand built to hold twenty-six thousand people. Texas World Speedway opened in 1969 and ran NASCAR, sports cars, and Indy cars for nearly fifty years. Then it closed in late 2017 and the bulldozers came. Most of the track site is now a residential development called Southern Pointe. As of 2024, more than half of it has been replaced by houses. The first race ever held here was a shakedown event for sports car drivers in October of 1969, delayed a week by rain. Cecil B. Harriss won it. A few weeks later Bruce McLaren won the first race open to spectators, and Bobby Isaac took the first NASCAR event. The track had been designed by Charles Moneypenny, who wanted the corners banked at twenty-five degrees.