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USAC Champ Car (1956-1963) Asheville-Weaverville Speedway: Weaverville: North Carolina: 0.540 miles (0.869 km) clay 1951-1987 NASCAR Cup Series (1951-1969) Bristol Motor Speedway: Bristol: Tennessee: 0.533 miles (0.858 km) dirt 2000, 2021-2023 2021-First dirt race for NASCAR Cup Series since 1971. California State Fairgrounds Race Track ...
Huntsville Speedway is a quarter-mile (.402 km) oval race track in Huntsville, Alabama. It opened in 1959 as a dirt track, and was paved in 1962. It held one NASCAR Grand National Series event in 1962, won by Richard Petty. [1] Today the track hosts weekly racing with a variety of stock car and modified classes. It shut down early in 2013 and ...
Texas Super Racing Series, Texas Pro Sedans, Dwarf Car Racing Series of Texas, Texas Thunders, Bombers, Super Streets, Sport Mods Thunder Road International SpeedBowl [54] Vermont Barre: 0.25 miles (0.40 km) High-banked oval (asphalt) American Canadian Tour, Pro All Stars Series, Late Models, Tiger Sportsman, Street Stocks, and Junkyard Warriors
The cars feature a purpose-built chassis design specifically for dirt late model racing. With many chassis builders within the sport, chassis design and components are always on the cutting edge of innovation and technology. The cars are powered by aluminum-head V8 engines (usually ranging between 400c.i. and 430c.i.) that produce over 800 ...
World Racing Group, Inc. (WRG) is a licensing, sanctioning and promotional organization aligned with oval dirt track auto racing. Through its World of Outlaws and DIRTcar brands, WRG supports individual races and racetracks, and also operates national touring series.
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.
Longtime stock car driver Red Farmer won his 500th feature race at the track. [ 8 ] From 1966 to 1968 the track hosted open-wheel racing and held the annual World 300 race for Supermodified racing , which attracted competitors that included notable drivers such as Bobby Allison , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Dale Hammac [ 11 ] and Armond Holley.
Sunny South Raceway originally opened in 1989 as a 1/8 mile dirt go-kart track in Grand Bay, Alabama. Full-size cars started running on the track in 1993. In 1996, the track was expanded to 1/4 mile and later paved in 2002. Sunny South Raceway has previously been operated under the names Big Oaks Speedway and J & J Speedway. [1] Today's version ...