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The Riverside International Speedway is an automobile racing facility at 151 Legion Road in West Memphis, Arkansas. Its facilities consist of a 0.25-mile (0.40 km) Gumbo clay oval [ 3 ] with banked corners, bleacher seating on both straightaways.
Pages in category "NASCAR races at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Memphis-Arkansas Speedway: West Memphis: Arkansas: 1.5 miles (2.4 km) ground dirt 1954-1957 NASCAR Cup Series (1954-1957) New York State Fairgrounds Racetrack: Syracuse: New York: 1 mile (1.6 km) cinder 1903-2015 AAA / USAC Champ Cars (1924-1962) World of Outlaws (1978-1995) Super DIRTcar Series (1982-2015) Occoneechee Speedway (1954 renamed ...
Memphis-Arkansas Speedway: 1.500-mile dirt oval LeHi, Arkansas: Mid-South 250 (1954–1955) 1954–1957 Closed due to owner's inability to afford the $100,000 cost to pave the speedway, as the dirt had become unmanagable and dangerous; layout remains intact. [17] Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway: 1.000-mile dirt oval Detroit, Michigan
Riverside International Speedway is designed as a scaled-down version of the famed Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. In 1967 track builder John Chisholm called up NASCAR co-founder Bill France, Sr. and told him about his intentions of building a half mile racetrack in Nova Scotia. Big Bill told Chisholm that a half mile track would ...
The Memphis International Raceway (more commonly known as MIR) was founded in 1986 by Ed Gatlin, who along with a group of investors, bought a 400-acre tract of land within the northeastern section of Shelby County, and built a drag strip with an adjacent road course, including a dirt track and a go-kart track. [2]
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The Memphis-Arkansas Speedway was a dirt oval track located just west of West Memphis, Arkansas, United States, in the community of Lehi. [ 1 ] This speedway had a total distance spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km), and at the time was the longest oval track visited by NASCAR (and the longest dirt oval track to this day). [ 2 ]