The Second Annual International Pop Festival was also . The service, which was previously only available for Comcast subscribers, launches on Wednesday alongside Earnhardt's show. My goal is to showcase the obscure, sometimes historic, forgotten places I have visited across the Southeast. The Allman Brothers Band, who was relatively unknown before this festival, opened and closed the show. {{Motorsport venue | Name = Middle Georgia Speedway | Nicknames = | Time = EST/EDT (-0500/-0400) | Location = 4015 US-41 Byron, Georgia United States | Coordinates = .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap} 32408.00N834245.93W / 32.6688889N 83.7127583W / 32.6688889; -83.7127583 Coordinates: 32408.00N834245.93W / 32.6688889N 83.7127583W / 32.6688889; -83.7127583 | Image = | Image_caption = | Capacity = | Owner = [[] | Operator = | Broke_ground = | Opened = 1966 [1] | Closed = c.1986 | Construction_cost= $500,000 | Architect = | Former_names = | Events = NASCAR | Layout1 = Oval | Surface = Paved [1] | Length_km = | Length_mi = .548 [1] | Miles_first = True | Turns = 4 | Banking = | Record_time = | Record_driver = | Record_team = | Record_year = | Record_class = }}, The Middle Georgia Raceway was a raceway located in Byron, Georgia, in the United States. LeeRoy Yarbrough sat on the pole position and Bobby Allison won the 267-mile (430km) race. After the economy crashed, plans were placed on hold. But it is not the rest of the story Leon. Bill Elliott, driving for Harry Melling, had won 11 races in 1985, but lost the title by 101 points to three-time race winner Waltrip. Thornton himself planned to put a light industrial park there when he bought the property in 2006, but fate intervened. While the racetrack had a short life within professional racing, the land where the track was located holds many stories. Middle Georgia Raceway was one of three tracks in the city of Macon that hosted NASCAR premier series races. Ken Ragan, father of 2-Time NASCAR Winner David Ragan, won the final race at Middle Georgia Raceway, as said on Peacock's Lost Speedways, hosted by NASCAR On NBC Announcer Dale Earnhardt Jr. The Middle Georgia Raceway was a popular race track for early NASCAR greats, and the 80 acres hosted one of the biggest music festivals in the 1970s. Category:Middle Georgia Raceway - Wikimedia Commons NASCAR's Deep Georgia Roots | NASCAR Hall of Fame | Curators' Corner "My reasons for wanting to do this show were purely selfish I love the mystique and eeriness of abandoned things, especially when those things are race tracks," Earnhardt said, per Dirty Mo . NASCAR started its 1968 and 1969 season at the Middle Georgia Raceway. I must disagree about the tracks condition, it would take a lot to get it back in shape.