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Dirt track racing is a form of motorsport held on clay or dirt surfaced banked oval racetracks. Dirt track racing started in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 1930s using both automobiles and motorcycles, spreading throughout Japan and often running on horse racing tracks.
[6] [7] [5] The ½ -mile [8] dirt track would be suitable for both annual "Strawberry Hill" horse races and car races, and was known as the "Atlantic Rural Fairgrounds Track", "Strawberry Hill", [9] and "Strawberry Hill Raceway" [10] On October 12, 1946, Ted Horn gained the distinction of winning the track's first race in an open-wheel Indy ...
Legends car racing, Bandolero Cars, Pure Stock, Modified, Late Models, Super Late Models, Trucks, Bombers, Sportsman, Demolition Derbies The Speedway At Willow Springs: California Rosamond: 0.25 miles (0.40 km) Oval: Late Models, Street Stocks, Hobby Stocks, Mini Stocks, WRA Vintage Sprint Cars, Southwest Tour Truck Series, Skid Plate I-25 Speedway
Dog Track Speedway 0.250-mile dirt oval Moyock, North Carolina: 1962–1963 Paved and lengthened in 1964, closed c. 1974. Eldora Speedway: 0.500-mile (0.805 km) dirt oval New Weston, Ohio: Eldora Dirt Derby: 2013–2019 (Trucks) Track still active, no race in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Did not return to racing in 2021, but continues ...
Ventura Raceway is a 1/5 mile, high-banked clay oval racetrack located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, California, United States.On a weekly basis the track is home to many types of dirt track racecars including wingless sprint cars, midgets, dwarf cars, stock cars, modifieds, sport compacts, and karts.
The track is host to two of the older memorial events in the United States, the Bettenhausen 100 for the USAC dirt championship cars, first run in 1961 and the Allen Crowe Memorial 100 stock car event for USAC, now ARCA, stock cars, first held in 1963. Both races are now held on the last weekend of the Illinois State Fair.
In the beginning of dirt track racing small numbers of cars would gather at a horse racing oval. [2] [page needed] The first dirt race was held in 1876 in Cranston, Rhode Island and was made up of 8 vehicles, most who were gasoline powered, however the victor was a man named Whiting who had an electric powered vehicle. [2]
2018 – Seats were widened during the off season, eliminating 3,320 seats from the main grandstand and lowering the overall seating capacity to 21,135. [6] 2021 – The track hosted a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on July 9, the Corn Belt 150. It was the first race at the track to ever be sanctioned by NASCAR. [7]