Charles Moudy is resurrecting Pineridge Speedway. He and his team have grand plans for the Guntown, Mississippi, dirt oval, that has been dormant for a few years now.
“The tornado tore up everything,” Moudy said of the track’s condition. “I took the speedway over on October 13, and we’ve been working sun-up to sundown to upgrade just about everything there.”
Moudy, who has owned and sponsored several race cars, will be making several capital improvements to the track, including extending the track’s size.
Pineridge Speedway announced on its Facebook page that racer Bryan Fortner will run Pineridge Speedway.
The 2024 schedule, including the divisions running, have yet to be determined. The track plans to host its grand reopening early next year.
You can follow the progress of the track’s construction here.
Outside Groove Note of Transparency: 2024 plans were not set and clarified (2023-11-03). Additional reporting by J.A. Ackley (2023-11-03).
The Outside Groove Director of Photography has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
