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Finding Original Track Pavement and Markings

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Chicago's Abandoned Racetrack Nobody Knows About - Inside Forgotten Meadowdale Raceway

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What happens here

Search for original track pavement surfaces. The video notes differences in asphalt color and texture, with some areas appearing newer or more intact due to later modifications or protection from the elements. Identify potential paint remnants from old track lines, as seen in the video. The presence of trees and vegetation covering older sections of the track suggests these areas were quickly reclaimed by nature after abandonment.

Goal: Identify and assess the condition of original track pavement and markings.

Tools and materials

  • Small brush — Clearing debris from pavement
  • Trowel — Light excavation

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downhill Corner probably carry a good bit of speed through because it is bank but you can't see yeah so you're just there's a big balls corner here so that wall looks like the concrete wasn't the wall they had a guard rail over that so if you would hit the guard rail and then kind of Squish into the wall which might help slow you down a little bit Yeah I think all of the the guard rails were when I heard they were stolen over the over the years and like like Linda was saying for 40 years this place was a Dumping Ground people came back here um I'm guilty of that I came back here in 1996 with my Firebird I got about maybe a few minutes into a lap I was like I I'm scar I just I don't know I got nervous like I'm going to get busted and I just bought the car like I didn't even have tags on it yet temporary tag like that's the last thing I need to do is get busted on a old racetrack did you get down to this part of it yeah I Came In by The Silo entrance and started heading that direction a little bit and then got scared and turned around I I for I think I heard sirens or something like that oh my God out here so let me just I'll rerecord the intro here we're here with AJ Hendrickson who is half a lat veteran of this racetrack 30 years ago 30 years after it closed he saw half the racetrack well not quite a little bit a few minutes I'm not sure and I wasn't going really fast either I was just and it was like stupid late at night I'm thinking it was like 2:00 or 3 in the morning so this looks like it was pretty wide those trees must have started growing shortly after it closed cuz they're big but the guard rail is another few feet Beyond The Big Trees right yeah absolutely whenever we do these kinds of things I just wonder if there are places that I've spent a lot of time at in my lifetime that will one day look like this when I'm older and I'll be sad about it yeah I've actually gone through that already in my life I'm not that old one of the coolest RAC tracks I've ever B in my entire life little a go-kart

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