To say Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a fan of old race tracks is an understatement. He loves them. He loves talking about them, learning about them and preserving them in whatever way he can.
His passion is the backbone of Lost Speedways, his Peacock series that explores shuttered, dilapidated and abandoned race tracks around the country, as the (mostly) retired NASCAR driver investigates the tracks’ histories, their legends and their failures.
When Season 1 debuted in 2020, Earnhardt admitted his motivations behind the show “were purely selfish” because he loves “the mystique and eeriness of abandoned things, especially when those things are race tracks.”
All eight episodes of Lost Speedways Season 2 will premiere Thursday, so For The Win spoke with Dale Jr. about the show, new tracks on NASCAR’s schedule in 2021 and the track he hopes is eventually added to the lineup.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
