<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/55146af769beddd1053654af-1200-924/speedwaythumb.jpg" border="0" alt="Abandoned NASCAR speedway" style="color: #000000;"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://sephlawless.com/">Seph Lawless</a></span></p><p class="caption">North Wilkesboro Speedway has sat abandoned. </p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>North Wilkesboro Speedway, which served as a stop in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series from&#xa0;1949 until September 1996, has sat abandoned for 20 years.</p><p>Aside from a brief year of activity in 2011, the speedway has been left to rot in the elements.</p><p>Photographer Seph Lawless captured the decrepitude as part of his "Autopsy of America" project. The images are gathered in his new book,&#xa0;<a href="http://sephlawless.com/the-last-lap-north-wilkesboro-speedway-2">"The Last Lap - North Wilkesboro Speedway."</a></p>

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Go inside an abandoned NASCAR race track that's been left to rot for the last 20 years

Seph LawlessNorth Wilkesboro Speedway has sat abandoned. North Wilkesboro Speedway, which served as a stop in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series from&#xa0;1949 until September 1996, has sat abandoned for 20 years.Aside from a brief year of activity in 2011, the speedway has been left to rot in the elements.Photographer Seph Lawless captured the decrepitude as part of his "Autopsy of America" project. The images are gathered in his new book,&#xa0;"The Last Lap - North Wilkesboro Speedway."

Seph LawlessNorth Wilkesboro Speedway has sat abandoned.  North Wilkesboro Speedway, which served as a stop in NASCARs Winston Cup Series fromxa01949 until September 1996, has sat abandoned for 20 years.

Go inside an abandoned NASCAR race track that's been left to rot for the last 20 years

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