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Joshua Vadeboncoeur, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Gardner-Webb University

‘Right to race’ laws and the battle over America’s local racetracks

Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Easley, S.C., held its last race in 2022. The track is at the center of debates over redevelopment and the future of local racing facilities. Tony Crescibene/flickr, CC BY

Across the United States, the local auto racing tracks that have anchored rural and working-class communities for generations are disappearing.

Some have lost out to real estate developers when suburban sprawl makes the land beneath them too valuable to ignore. Others are strangled, slowly, by noise complaints and nuisance lawsuits filed by residents who moved to the area long after the track had been built.

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