Speedway - Auto racing's ghost tracks

[Wouter Melissen]

'Speedway – Auto racing’s ghost tracks' is the latest book from my good friends SS Collins and Gavin Ireland. Like the much acclaimed 'Autodrome', Speedway explores long derelict racing tracks. This time the author and photographer have focused on American tracks.

Full press release:

An evocative and original look at the history of eight abandoned race circuits in the USA and Europe, and viewed as they are today in stunning new photographs.

Around the world languish a number of long-forgotten raceways; windswept and abandoned, the derelict pit roads and crumbling concrete are all that remain of once great race tracks. From the NASCAR heartland of North Wilkesboro and Middle Georgia to the great European super speedways at Monza and Brooklands, these faded circuits are now monuments to the victories, defeats, triumphs and tragedies once played out before excited crowds.

With roots as diverse as Nationalist Socialism and Prohibition-era bootlegging, the histories of these places offer an insight to different times and attitudes, as well as the evolution of motor racing. Many of the characters who raced on these circuits had a profound impact on their sport; these circuits, which fostered and occasionally destroyed such great drivers, are revisited here – photographed as they are now, but also remembered in their prime by word and picture.

With over 180 images, this unique and evocative book is available now from bookshops or from Veloce Publishing

Speedway – Auto racing’s ghost tracks
By SS Collins
ISBN 9781845842413
UPC 636847042417
Available now.
UK ￡35.00, USA $69.95