The Fight to Save Greenville-Pickens Speedway

This is a shoutout. The Real Historic Greenville Pickens Speedway — follow that page.

The fight

Greenville-Pickens Speedway. Now it sits in the path of an industrial development: a 376,380-square-foot industrial building, retail and restaurant complex, hundreds of acres of warehouses. If nobody buys the track, it gets demolished. Tasha's own words: it WILL be bulldozed if this purchase does not close.

She's not letting that happen. Tasha started racing at Greenville-Pickens when she was 10. She became the first woman to ever win a late model race there. When the track's future went uncertain, she started a Facebook page and a petition — 4,700 signatures and counting — and fought for three years.

Then she stopped asking for permission. Her words: "Good thing I wasn't asking for permission."

She formed a nonprofit, negotiated directly with the owner, and signed a purchase agreement: $3.7 million, with a real contractual deadline. Fifty-plus local businesses have pledged labor and materials for the restoration — paving, electrical, plumbing, concrete. Dale Earnhardt Jr. publicly promised to run a CARS Tour race there if it reopens.

Why this track matters

Greenville-Pickens opened in 1946 — two years before NASCAR existed. It hosted the first-ever flag-to-flag televised NASCAR race, the 1971 Greenville 200. David Pearson won the track championship there in 1959. Ralph Earnhardt raced there. So did Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, William Byron, and Josh Berry.

This isn't some forgotten field. It's where NASCAR learned to be on television.

Her vision is our world

Tasha's plan goes way beyond Saturday night racing: car shows, truck meets, drift events, festivals, charity events, veterans and first responder events, STEM programs for kids. A year-round home for car culture, twenty minutes from Greenville.

Read that list again. That's Selfvation's goals!

How to help

- Follow The Real Historic Greenville Pickens Speedway on Facebook — that's the movement's page -

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— the deadline is real and the clock is ticking - Read the full story — every detail of the three-year fight

The bigger picture

This isn't happening in a vacuum. Tonight the IHRA put twelve drag strips up for auction on Tranzon — Atlanta Dragway, Heartland, Milan, Empire, Galot, Piedmont, Rockingham, Dragway 42, Kil-Kare, National Trail, Memphis, Virginia Motorsports Park. Bids due November 17. I verified the listings myself.

How it happened: IHRA's new owner bought a dozen tracks in 2025, the

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, leadership fell apart, and now the whole portfolio goes to the highest bidder. Even Rockingham — where ESPN broadcast its first-ever NASCAR race, the 1981 Carolina 500 — is on the block.

Twelve tracks for sale nationally. One woman fighting to save ours locally. Same lesson: tracks only exist as long as the community shows up.

The takeaway

Go follow the page. Throw a few dollars at the campaign if you can. And go to the local strip — the eighth-mile where you bracket race on Friday nights only exists as long as people show up for it.

If you're part of it — racer, fan, photographer, or just somebody who shows up — Selfvation is where the scene lives. Find the meets, list your show, put your build in front of the community. Free on iPhone and Android, just search Selfvation.

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