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The Fort Lauderdale Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race open for three years old or older, over a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf track held annually in December at Gulfstream Park, Hallandale Beach, Florida. The event currently carries a purse of $215,000.
Starworks Motorsport is an American automobile racing team based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, currently competing in the new for 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The team was established in 2010 by Peter Baron and runs a Riley Daytona Prototype and two Prototype Challenge Oreca Chevrolet FLM09 cars.
ESPN broadcast its first race in 1981, from North Carolina Motor Speedway [6] (its first live race was later in the year at Atlanta International Raceway), and TNN followed in 1991. All Cup races were nationally televised by 1985; networks struck individual deals with track owners, and multiple channels carried racing content.
The Ft. Lauderdale A1A marathon and Half Marathon began in 2006 when it was founded by Steve Tebon and Exclusive Sports Marketing. [1] Since then, it has grown to field more than 4,500 participants from over 40 US states and 12 countries to become one of the premier events in the state of Florida. The race is currently a Boston qualifier.
The Hot Chocolate 5K in Chicago and the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run in Miami are the largest organised 5K runs in the United States, having attracted over 20,000 and over 16,000 runners, respectively, in 2012. The number of runners ranked the Hot Chocolate 5K as the 20th largest road running event of any distance in the United States that year ...
The last race at the speedway took place on December 13, 1992, due to the western expansion of new homes and complaints from neighbors. [2] A part of the subdivision of Pembroke Isles now occupies the site of the drag strip, which ran from the south by west to the north by east and roughly aligned with the current NW 167th Avenue.
A driver live-streamed a police chase and standoff at I-35W at Loop 820 in Fort Worth on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024.
The following people were born, or have lived in, Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Sports figures. Auto racing. Hélio Castroneves, 2001, 2002 and 2009 Indy 500 Champion [1]