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Under the Grandstands and Concessions

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Abandoned Rockingham Speedway: FULL TOUR! (Hidden NASCAR History In Storage)

What happens here

The hosts venture underneath the grandstands, revealing various remnants of concession stands and other facilities. They discuss the historical items found, such as old menus and equipment, noting that some of the equipment looks surprisingly new, possibly from an attempted revitalization that stalled. They also point out an area where sand has accumulated, suggesting wind erosion over time.

Goal: Examine facilities under the grandstands

Tools and materials

  • Flashlight — Illuminating dark areas under the grandstands

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video you should check that out too you know you see the square on the ground where something should have been and then a year down the road you realize oh this is where a battery backup was for this thing or whatever but all of all that good stuff seems to be missing the best view in the whole place as far as i'm concerned is the camera stand up there let's go up there yeah i mean all this stuff seems to be in pretty good shape still it really is well it's one solid piece of metal so like literally the whole thing would have to all of the ground would have to cave in at once for anything to happen wow this is awesome how athletic am i feeling uh-huh we gotta go over the fence we can go all the way to turn one and then walk all the way back yeah i think we can climb over it that's what i do you're tall over it can't you i thought this was like a treacherous drop it's going like 10 feet yeah only 10 feet we're okay now it's limbo time let me call ronnie oh my god he's been here since 82. oh ronnie knows everything about this place ronnie the track historian where have i heard that one before yeah there's multiple things under here oh ronnie please answer buddy he always answers my thoughts i mean i've been fighting weeds here since my first day almost three years ago and it's just such a daunting task they're everywhere ever i mean they're everywhere i i dream i dream about wheat i'm not kidding about better ways to kill weeds what is this down here just like one of the flag guys from the olden days or something i'm assuming it was yeah because i mean obviously that's something for somebody to stand on i just i don't know why the pit was ever made except for maybe drainage don't step down here yeah those little burrs i just got thorns stuck in my ankle these look newer than everything else we spent a couple days doing nothing but crawling around that building trying to find the different lines that control those lights we finally figured it out and i mean i'm talking i don't know if i've ever been happier when we got those lights working so this this truck was purchased new and was on like utility duty at this track and stayed with the track this whole time we we got another thing that we did uh during that same winter we got the caution lights working was we got the truck running so oh that's cool was this thing like buried in some building somewhere uh yeah well it was it was in the pit garage oh yeah is there anything cool in the domino's place so that's…

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