This was a was a one half mile dirt/clay modified race track. It opened September 24, 1924. In 1958 NASCAR would come to Reading. They would run 200 laps around the 1/2 mile dirt track. Junior Johnson and Eddie Pagan would stage a great battle, with Johnson pulling out the win by ten car lengths. 1959 would be then only other Cup race held at the speedway. Johnson would start on the pole, but Lee Petty would grab the lead at the drop of the green and lead until lap 188. At that point he broke an axle and Johnson was there to take the lead. He held it the rest of the race and beat Speedy Thompson by four
laps. It featured a regular weekly series of modified, sportsman modified, and late model stock until it closed in 1979. The racetrack was replaced by the Fairgrounds Square Mall, which opened in 1980, closed in 2018, and was demolished in 2020.
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