Willamette Speedway kicked off its 60th season on April 18 – and a new era for the one-third mile clay oval on the outskirts of Lebanon with its first-ever NASCAR-sanctioned event.
“It’s bigger and better than ever,” Cory Penfold, who has operated the track with his wife Sandy since 2022.
Cory Penfold said this is his 50th year at the track.
“I started going there when I was 2,” he said, noting that his dad,…