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Greg Brotherton, a Washington State roadster racer directed a very enjoyable and unique thirty-minute documentary film about an old time midget racer that we will share with you this upcoming Saturday. Today’s feature contains a very interesting short 2:18 video, “No Race Track There” of Hot Rod Races that Brotherton attended in 1948 which were held in Sultan,…
Today we travel to the Goodwood Road Racing circuit located in southeastern England to view the exciting highlights of three races that were run at the Members Meeting yesterday. The event is a reenactment the race meets held earlier in the fifties and sixties at Goodwood for members of the British Automobile Racing Club. The racing is only…
Updated Mystery Solved – The 16th Street Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, located across the street from turn two of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway first opened with a midget race held May 29, 1946, on the eve of the big 500-mile race. In the early 1950s stock cars or “Jalopies” as they were referred to at…
Cuba has a long history of auto racing activity that began as early as 1905. According to Tom Cotter in his book, “Cuba’s Car Culture: Celebrating the Islands’ Automotive Love Affair,” Dictator Fulgencio Batista brought FIA sanctioned sports and stock car races to the Island in 1955. On Feburary 25th of that year, a series…
The Southern 500 was first run on Labor Day of 1950 and was the initial race on the NASCAR circuit to run a five-hundred mile distance. Located in Darlington, South Carolina, the challenging 1.375-mile egg-shaped oval “Super Speedway” featured one high-banked turn and corners of different radi. Sixty-three cars on the parade lap before the start of the…
On the third week of August, dedicated racers whose ultimate goal is to set a land speed record (LSR), descend on the Bonneville Salt Flats near the City of Wendover, located on the western side of Utah near the Nevada border. Land speed racing began there in 1914 with a “Blitzen” Benz in which “Terrible” Teddy Tetzlaff set…
The first NASCAR race of the season, the Daytona 500 is held every year on the Daytona International Speedway track that first opened in 1959. To celebrate the Forth of July Holiday the sanctioning body also began runing the Firecracker 400 race that year with the distance shortened to 160 laps, due to the intense…
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