Today's the day !!!

Wall Stadium Re-opens !!!  You know where I'll be tonight !!!

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Wall Stadium Track History:

Long before Bruce Springsteen ever belted out the words to "Born to Run", the Jersey Shore has been the place to be for fun and excitement during the summer months for inland Northeast residents.

The lure of the Atlantic Ocean and all of the entertainment hot spots that it has spawned continually draws vacationers from thousands of miles to the North, West and South to enjoy it's recreational pleasures. Among the many items on the seaside menu to enjoy are the ocean and it's beaches and the boardwalks of Belmar, Point Pleasant and Seaside Heights. Lounges and nightclubs abound near the shoreline making for after hours fun for the many local inhabitants and the vacationers that are drawn here. The Great Adventure amusement park is just a half-hour inland from the beaches yet adding another place of interest to an already exciting area for summer fun.

Nestled among all of this activity is one of the most successful stock car racing short tracks in the country. Strategically located at the intersection of the Garden State Parkway. Interstate 195 and New Jersey Highway 34 is Wall Stadium, a high banked third-mile paved oval that has been hosting exciting racing events for the past 54 years!

The founders of the speedway, Thomas and Jennie Nicol, first fell in love with the sport by visiting the Long Branch Speedway. Once the Nicols assembled a 55-acre tract of land off Route 34, they began to visit speedways from New Hampshire to Virginia, noting the bad points to avoid and the good ones to incorporate into their design.

Thoughts of the future were obviously in Mr. Nicol's mind as the track was constructed with a steep 30 degree banking in the corners and 16 degree banking on the straights which allowed the speeds to increase while still keeping a margin of safety intact.

The comfort of the spectator was also a first priority from those early days as the track and it's grandstands, which line the front straight, were built in a man-made bowl. This procedure allowed the foundation of the spectator seating area to be formed of poured concrete.

Although the Nicol's original design was a good one, new owners took over the speedway in February, 2002, and immediately began a massive renovation and improvement plan. The Creamer family, Joseph Sanzari, Tim Shinn and Fred Archer, partners in Wall Township Speedway, knew that an update was needed to ensure that the race fans to today were comfortable.

Although the improvements are ongoing at Wall Stadium - "Racing At The Jersey Shore Since 1950" thus far the owners have rebuilt the grandstand seating, renovated the restroom and food concession facilities, paved the pit area, added a one-fifth mile "inner oval" to the speedway which also serves as a safety apron and recently replace the famous wooden guardrail with steel in the turns of the the ultra-fast oval.

Jim Morton, former track operations managers leased the speedway in 2008 to hold the 35th annual Turkey Derby, as the track had sat idle since November, 2007. The large turnout and support for Morton's first promotional event at the speedway brought on another entire racing season at the Jersey shore oval in 2009.