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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.
Reading Fairgrounds Speedway (1924–1979) was a one half mile dirt/clay modified race track located in Muhlenberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The track opened September 24, 1924 and ran until June 29, 1979. [1] It featured a regular weekly series of modified, sportsman modified, and late model stock car racing.
The only driver who has won races in three disciplines of racing in Ken Schrader who won in ARCA cars (1998), UMP Modifieds (1998), and midgets. [2] Billy Winn won the first national championship dirt track race held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in 1934. A.J. Foyt ran his first national championship race there in August 1957.
It was a half mile, four-cornered dirt oval. Motorcycles first raced on this horse track in 1911, and the "Speedway" hosted its first automobile race in 1915 as a half mile dirt oval. The first race was promoted and won by Ira Vail. The track's grandstand opened in 1917 and remained standing until the track was demolished in January 2005.
The track first featured "horseless carriages" and motorcycles on June 11, 1904, on a 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 mi (1.8 km) dirt oval. Races were canceled after a motorcycle ran into the back of a car that was lining up. Harness horse racing events were also held at the track. In September 1904 another series of races was organized.
The Oakland Speedway was a motor racing track in San Leandro, California, a suburb of Oakland, California.It was a one-mile, banked dirt oval track built in 1931, which operated throughout the Great Depression and postwar years.
The landowner, Julian S. Carr, raced horses, and built a half mile horse racing track on the site. [3] Bill France noticed the horse racing track and expanse of open land while piloting his airplane. [3] On the site of the earlier horse track, he built a 0.9-mile dirt track in September 1947, two months before NASCAR was organized.
The track was opened in June 1934 as a flat "D shaped" 5/8 mile dirt track. The original track was a "copy" of the Legion Ascot Speedway. [1] Timeline - The following is a timeline of events from 1933 to the present: [1] 1933 - A "Kids Race" was held in September 1933. 1934 - The Official opening of the track was Sunday, June 3, 1934.