Secret Cave Found Under NASCAR Track May Confirm Awesome Conspiracy Theory

Before NASCAR, there was moonshine. After NASCAR, there will still be moonshine.

Don't know if that's on a shirt somewhere in the bowels of North Wilkesboro Speedway yet, but it should be. You're welcome, marketing team!

After decades of rumors and tin-foil hats, the conspiracy theorists were proven … RIGHT! … yesterday about the legendary NASCAR track. 

If you were one of those folks who always believed North Wilkesboro Speedway was built atop a secret moonshine cave, you are spending all day Wednesday collecting your flowers:

The moonshine is flowing at North Wilkesboro Speedway

Doesn't get much more NASCAR than that, I reckon. Such a simpler time. That, boys and girls, is why automobile racing used to be the most popular thing on the planet. 

From the speedway:

During grandstand cleaning and inspection last week, operations staff discovered cracks in the original concrete in section N. 

Crews began removing seats to inspect the extent of the damage and evaluate needs for repair. During the process, an open area of approximately 700-square-feet was discovered underneath the aging concrete.

"When we began renovating and restoring North Wilkesboro Speedway in 2022, we’d often hear stories of how an old moonshine still was operated here on the property under the grandstands," said Steve Swift, senior vice president of operations and development at Speedway Motorsports. 

"Well, we haven’t found a still (yet), but we’ve found a small cave and an interior wall that would have been the perfect location to not only make illegal liquor, but to hide from the law as well. 

We don’t know how people would have gotten in and out, but as we uncover more, there’s no telling what we might find."

Wild. What other sports league is pumping out this sort of content today? Sure, you have Shohei Ohtani cooking up NHL parlays on opening day eve, and the NFL has a new kickoff rule, and Joe is being called out by the mob for attacking Caitlin Clark …

… but none of that whets the appetite quite like NASCAR officials uncovering secret caves (allegedly) used to smuggle illegal alcohol into the county under the frontstretch of one of its most historic tracks mere weeks before an actual race is supposed to be run there. 

Can't wait to see where this thing goes. Hope they find Junior Johnson's old stash under there.