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Las Vegas Motor Speedway (track complex formerly known as Las Vegas Speedway Park from 1993 to 1996, Las Vegas Speedway in 1992, Las Vegas International Speedway from 1990 to 1992, as the Las Vegas International Speedrome from 1972 to 1990) is a 1.5-mile (2.414 km) tri-oval intermediate speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Marchbanks Speedway (also Hanford Motor Speedway) was a racetrack located in San Joaquin Valley near Hanford, California. It hosted open-wheel and NASCAR cars, as well as motorcycle racing, in the 1950s and 1960s. The track was subsequently demolished. It was originally built by local farmer B. L. Marchbanks, and named after himself.
The Stardust International Raceway was an auto racing track in present-day Spring Valley, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley. It featured a flat, 3.000 mi (4.828 km), 13-turn road course, and a quarter-mile drag strip. Some track maps depicted the road course with 10 numbered turns.
A Milk Farm Restaurant sign, measuring 100 feet tall, [3] was built in May 1963 [3] and still stands today at the intersection of State Route 113 and Interstate 80. [26] Dixon is home to the Dixon May Fair, California's oldest fair. [27] [28] The fair began in 1885 as a May Day celebration and predates the Solano County Fair which first ...
A new Shelby American, Inc. was founded in 1995 in Las Vegas. Don Landy was replaced by another of Carroll Shelby's business associates, Don Rager, and design of the new car began at Shelby's shop in Gardena, California while a new assembly plant was being built near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. [19]: 25
It moved to the current Milk Farm Road location along Interstate 80 in 1939. [2] Originally called Hess Station, [1] it gained the moniker Milk Farm in 1940 when The Saturday Evening Post wrote an article about it, and also gave Dixon the nickname “Dairy Town” for its contribution to the California dairy industry. [2]
It opened on March 27, 1999, under the official name Irwindale Speedway. Toyota purchased the naming rights to the facility in 2008, and from that time until 2011 it was also known as the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. [1] The speedway featured banked, paved 1 ⁄ 2 - and 1 ⁄ 3-mile oval tracks and a 1 ⁄ 8-mile drag strip.
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