ISOM, Ky. (AP) — A Pike County man has died after a crash at the Mountain Motor Speedway in Isom.
Authorities tell local media that 61-year-old Willard M. Hicks of Shelby Gap was driving in a drag race Saturday evening, lost control of his vehicle, left the track and struck a tree.
Hicks was pronounced dead at a local hospital. No one else was injured in the crash.
Police said it was the first fatal wreck at the speedway in decades.