The Murray County Speedway is located on the southwest corner of the Murray County Fairgrounds in Slayton. The existence of the racetrack goes back to the 1930s when there was a 1/2 mile horse racing track. Later, the track was converted to a 3/8 mile track. The infield of the track was also the football and baseball fields for Slayton High School, until the early 1960s. In the early 1970s the Slayton VFW club took over the operation of running the track on Friday nights for a few years and then the Slayton Jaycees ran it. The track would sit idle for a short time in the early 1980s until Don Zins became the promoter. In the late 1980s the track would sit idle again until 1993. Then a group of guys, (Dave Baack, Rande Johnson, Earl Linder, Gary Muecke, Roger Tyrell), decided to form an association of members, to get the Speedway back as an active track. The first several years had the Speedway facing many difficulties that need to be worked out. However, by the mid 1990s found the Speedway holding many top notch nights, that rivaled many of the tracks in Southwest Minnesota. IMCA and USRA have been the two sanctioning bodies that the cars have raced under.