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| Location | Jennerstown, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Opened | 1920 (original) 2014 (reopened) |
| Major Events | World Stock Car Championship (1951 - 1957) |
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Jennerstown Speedway Complex
Jennerstown Speedway Complex (previously known as Jennerstown Speedway) is a paved oval track in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania. The track opened to the public in the 1920's as a half-mile dirt track; the track was reconfigured in the late 1940's to a paved oval as part of an effort to attract stock car racing - which had replaced midgets as the entertainment of choice - to the speedway. The facility has undergone a number of transformations leading up to today’s state-of-the-art motorsports complex.
History[edit | edit source]
Constructed in the late 1920s as a flat half-mile dirt oval, the Jenners Fairgrounds, as the speedway was then known, played host to ‘big car’ racing (forerunners to the sprint cars of today) during the 1930s.
Following World War II, the track was reconfigured as an asphalt oval with 9° of banking; a smaller, lighted dirt quarter mile track was built in the infield in 1953. Track presenters soon debuted stock car racing, which had replaced the midgets as the post-war entertainment craze sweeping the nation. The oval track would go through several boom-and-bust cycles, going through stages of abandonment and re-opening until the track (seemingly) closed for good in 2009. It would later reopen in 2014 after heavy lobbying from local racers and promoters.