Seventeen years after the Ontario Motor Speedway vanished, Roger Penske spent $110 million to mimic his D-shaped oval at Michigan Speedway, the only other two-mile track on the NASCAR circuit.

In the early 1980s, fans could hop onto the Queen streetcar or the Coxwell bus, head over to venerable Greenwood Raceway, and see top three-year-olds compete in the Queen City Pace. Times change ...