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Protesters ignored Detroit's 8 pm curfew with authorities taking no actions against protesters, allowing the demonstrations to end peacefully. [16] Subsequent protests continued each day afterward, remaining largely peaceful. By the time the 8 pm curfew ended on June 8, an estimated 400 protesters in Detroit had been arrested.
Here are the top five finishers for Sunday's IndyCar Series race, the 2024 Detroit Grand Prix, with car make, total time and laps lead, if applicable: 1. Scott Dixon (Honda), 2 hours, 6 minutes, 7 ...
Sanctioned street racing returns to the Motor City this weekend. The 2024 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix is back with a series of races in downtown Detroit. This is the second straight year the race ...
The Detroit Grand Prix's short, narrow and bumpy track took some shots a day before the race returned to streets downtown. “We recovered any potential damage," race chairman Bud Denker said Sunday.
The track opened in 1949 for Thoroughbred flat racing. In 1953 a harness racing season was added. After 1985, only Standardbred harness racing events were run here until 2014, when Thoroughbred racing was revived. [2] The track was sold and closed in April 2018, leaving Northville Downs as the only horse racing track in Michigan. It closed in 2019.
By 1908, the racetrack, at the east end of the fairground, had a 5,000-seat capacity grandstand. The track originally hosted Thoroughbred flat racing as well as Standardbred harness racing. Later, it was used for auto racing, after the growth of that industry. [3] In 1971 the grandstand was declared unsafe; it was demolished in 2001. [3]
IndyCar is throwing two new wrinkles — and a lot of bumps — at its drivers in the Motor City. The Detroit Grand Prix will make its debut on a 10-turn, 1.7 mile downtown street circuit Sunday.
The Walk to Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on June 23, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan.It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or more and was known as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history" up to that date.