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The 1950 NASCAR Grand National season was the second season of professional stock car racing in the United States. Beginning at the Daytona Beach Road Course on February 5, 1950, the season included 19 races. The season concluded at Occoneechee Speedway on October 29. Bill Rexford won the Drivers' Championship with a 26th-place finish at the ...
American Flat Track is an American motorcycle racing series. [1] The racing series, founded and sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in 1954, originally encompassed five distinct forms of competitions including mile dirt track races, half-mile, short-track, TT steeplechase and road races. [2][3] The championship was the ...
1952 Southern 500. Fonty Flock makes his way into "Winner's Circle" with the help of his crew chief, Red Vogt. The 1952 Southern 500, the third running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on September 1, 1952, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina .
Board track racing was a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s. Competition was conducted on circular or oval race courses with surfaces composed of wooden planks. This type of track was first used for motorcycle competition, wherein they were called motordromes, before being adapted for use by various ...
Paul Goldsmith. Paul Edward Goldsmith (October 2, 1925 – September 6, 2024) was an American racing driver. During his career he raced motorcycles, stock cars, and Indianapolis cars, achieving success in each discipline. Goldsmith won the USAC Stock Car national championship in 1961 and 1962, driving a Pontiac for Ray Nichels.
Recirculating oil system introduced on all H-D engines in 1936, R became W to denote this. WLA and WLC were military models, WR was a racing model Servi-Car: 45.1 cu in (739 cc) flathead 1932–1936 (R-series engine) 1937–1973 (W-series engine) From 1964, the first Harley-Davidson to have electric starting. [2] Model K and KK
Harley-Davidson engine timeline. Harley-Davidson engines are a line of engines manufactured since 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by the Harley-Davidson company for use in its motorcycles. Harley-Davidson engines are now made at Harley-Davidson Motor Company's Pilgrim Road Powertrain Operations facility in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
His last NASCAR win came in 1966 at Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway. Goldsmith competed in the Indianapolis 500 on six occasions, NASCAR said. His best performance was in 1960 when he finished ...