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Albany-Saratoga Speedway is a 0.36-mile dirt oval on U.S. Route 9 in Malta, New York.The track features racing on Friday nights, with five different weekly racing divisions, including DIRTcar modifieds, DIRTcar sportsman, limited sportsman, pro stocks and street stocks and also four cylinder racers.
Poles. 0. 1. 0. Brett Hearn (born September 1, 1958) is a semi-retired modified stock car driver from Kinnelon, New Jersey. [5] He currently serves as race director at Orange County Fair Speedway. Hearn has amassed 919 wins in a stock car over the course of his professional career which has spanned four decades.
Grand National/Winston Cup Series. Petty won 200 races from 1960 to 1984. Of those, 196 wins came with Petty Enterprises, mainly in the No. 43 but also in Nos. 41 and 42 from 1962 to 1966. Petty ran two dirt races for owner Don Robertson in 1970 at Columbia Speedway and North Carolina State Fairgrounds as part of a deal with Petty Enterprises ...
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.
Albany-Saratoga Speedway: Richard Petty: 2 Asheville-Weaverville Speedway: Rex White: 5 Augusta Speedway: Joe Weatherly, Richard Petty, Bobby Isaac, and David Pearson: 2 Beltsville Speedway: Bobby Isaac: 3 Birmingham International Raceway: Ned Jarrett: 3 Bowman Gray Stadium: Rex White: 6 Bristol Motor Speedway: Darrell Waltrip: 12 Bristol Motor ...
Albany-Saratoga Speedway: 0.400-mile dirt oval. Malta, New York: Albany-Saratoga 250 (1970–1971) 1970–1971 Track was dirt after 1978; converted back to asphalt in 2009; returned to dirt in 2012. Altamont–Schenectady Fairgrounds 0.500-mile dirt oval Altamont, New York: 1951 1955 Auto racing discontinued after 1955.
Saratoga Race Course is a Thoroughbred horse racing track located on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States.Opened in 1863, it is often considered to be the oldest major sporting venue of any kind in the U.S. [2] It is the fourth oldest racetrack after Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack (1858), [3] Freehold Raceway (1854) and Fair Grounds Race Course (1852).
Three months after his death, the first annual 100-lap "Don MacTavish Memorial Race" was organized at Albany-Saratoga Speedway. Race-winner Richie Evans was presented the winner's trophy by Mrs. Dorothy MacTavish and Miss Marcia MacTavish, mother and sister of the late driver for whom the event was named.