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The track closed for a while in 1988 but reopened in 1996 with Roger Crick and Mike Graham as the owners and has seen success. The speedway was purchased by H & H Motorsports in 2010. The new owners closed the auto racing program in July 2011. Kart racing and some special events continued through 2011. Mark Tatalovic brought the track back to ...
ISMA Super Modifieds in Turn 4 at Jennerstown Speedway, 2007 Jennerstown Speedway. Jennerstown Speedway Complex is a racetrack in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania.Built on land that was once home to the Jenners Fair the track had its start in the 1920s as a flat, half-mile dirt track.
Williams Grove Speedway is a half-mile dirt racing track located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States.The speedway opened on May 21, 1939, it has been owned by the Hughes family for over 50 years and has hosted many of the most notable national touring series and some of those most prestigious races in the country.
Dirt track racing is the single most common form of auto racing in the United States. According to the National Speedway Directory, there are over 700 dirt oval tracks in operation in the US. [1] The composition of the dirt on tracks has an effect on the amount of grip available. Many tracks use clay with a specific mixture of dirt.
The 1 ⁄ 2 mile dirt track was constructed in the 1900s as a horse racing track. The first automotive events held at the location were not racing, instead it was a sport called auto polo. Following the Great Depression the first large race that happened at the small track would be held in 1947 by the American Automobile Association. The race ...
As of March 2016 the track was closed and for sale or lease. [3] The track and buildings are all still on the property, though have become looted and vandalized as often happens with "abandoned" properties with little or no security. [4] The original Motordrome was in nearby Ruffs Dale. East Huntingdon Township. It was a dirt track. Pits were ...
2015 – Maple Grove Raceway's concrete racing surface was extended in 2008 to the 770′ mark of the quarter mile track. In the spring of 2015 ownership elected to remove the remaining 550′ of asphalt and replace it with concrete, making Maple Grove one of the only total concrete quarter mile tracks in the east.
The track held a single race each year at the annual fair until the 1960s. [3] The track held an annual American Automobile Association (AAA) "big car" (now sprint car) race until the AAA stopped sanctioning in 1955. [3] During the winter of 2007, the speedway was resurfaced with sifted clay. Joe Padula III took over track promotion in 2013. [4]