Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The street stock division was introduced as a cheap way to get into racing. The cars ran stock chassis from American made cars, keeping the cost of racing down for its competitors. At the end of the 2016 racing season, the street stocks had their name changed to the sportsmen, per request of the division's new sponsorship. [7] In 1995, Seekonk ...
Besides stock car racing, Norwood Arena Speedway featured midget and sports car racing, drag racing, and other sporting events between 1948 and 1972, when Norwood Arena Speedway closed at the end of stock car racing season. The track hosted a variety of racing divisions during its 25-year run.
Late Model Sportsman, Modified, Grand Stock, U-Car, Pro Six, Legends, Street Stock, MACKA Champ Karts Speedway 95 [40] Maine Hermon: 0.333 miles (0.536 km) Semi-banked oval (asphalt) Limited Late Models, Super Streets, Strictly Stocks, Trucks, and Enduros Twin State Speedway [41] New Hampshire Claremont: 0.333 miles (0.536 km) Semi-banked oval ...
To capitalize on the nation's new attraction to auto racing following World War II, park owner Edward J. Carroll demolished the dance hall that had burned down in 1948. In its place laid out a flat 1/5-mile oval track, pit area and grandstand alongside the Connecticut River. The first full season of "modified" stock car racing was 1949.
Palmer Motorsports Park is an operating motorsports park in Hampden County, Massachusetts, located at the intersection of West Ware Road and Bacon Road in the town of Palmer. The creation of the track was approved by Palmer on December 4, 2007, and in 2009 underwent review by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. [1]
Carroll took a liking to auto racing, a sport that was gaining popularity in the Northeast after World War II, and added it to his slate of attractions at Riverside, building the Riverside Park Speedway in 1948, replacing an open-air bandstand. [12] The 1960s was a popular period for stock car racing at Riverside Park.
The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) is an independent regional stock car racing series based in the northeastern United States, and Eastern Canada.The American-Canadian Tour was founded in 1979 and conducts professionally-run stock car racing events across New England and Quebec.
Swaffham Raceway, originally Swaffham Stadium, [4] is a stock car and banger racing circuit in Swaffham, Norfolk, [5] which also hosted greyhound racing from 1987 until 2000. [ 6 ] Greyhound racing