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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…
Today is the 57th running of the Daytona 500, and the occasion has been chosen to look back at the last race on the beach in 1958 and the first 500 in 1959 held on the new super speedway. Paul Goldsmith driving Smokey Yunick’s 1958 Pontiac hardtop won the final race for sedans at Daytona…
Racers in the cold climes have from fall until spring to prepare their cars for the next season and put a “little more poison under the hood.” About this time of the year here in Vermont and New Hampshire, “Cabin Fever” sets in and for decades racers have been taking to the ice on the…
The Goodwood Revival features two events in one: an exceptional vintage racing celebration and an aviation event. It takes place yearly on the Goodwood road racing circuit outside of Chichester, England, and this year it took place on September 11-13, 2015. The Goodwood organization does a suburb job in everything they do, and that includes…
Today and for the rest of the week we are taking a bit of time off but have five short but exciting stock car short track racing film clips from around the world for you to enjoy today, thanks to British Pathe. Editors note: Starting today and on through to Monday we are taking advantage…
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