Here's a good article I just read about the speedway, Jr. Johnson and others... Quite good!

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2015/3 ... ter-nascar

I don't follow NASCAR but one knows names having lived in North Carolina for my whole life. We went to Boone this past weekend for my daughter's birthday and as we passed the speedway one of my younger daughters was asking about the track.


It is a shame that at least some weekend circuits could not run on the track a few times a year. I guess there is not enough money to keep it up unless races are done weekly or near weekly as Hickory, W-S and I guess Elkin do. I did not know Elkin had a track.

McLeansvilleAppFan wrote: I did not know Elkin had a track.

Friendship speedway. its a dirt track

I took 268 at North Wilkesboro coming back from Boone back in January. I wanted to drive by and see the train tracks and I was by myself so no one was complaining about the time. I took I-77 at Elkin as it was getting late enough so I just missed this as the track appears to be just off 268. I turned a mile too soon.

It was spring of 1971, my freshman year. Junior Johnson had announced he was building a Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the World 600. Three of us decided we wanted to see and left Boone looking for his shop. We made several stops asking directions and finally found his house.

We pulled up and there he was in the front yard planting flowers. A bit sheepishly, we asked if we could see his shop. "Why sure you can boys!", he said, "C'mon!" He took us to the garage at his house, took us inside and told his guys to show us around. They showed us the car, the engine room, the whole outfit.

Junior Johnson took the time and had the courtesy to make a lifetime memory for three teenage college students. Our country, our world needs more people like that.