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When the fiftieth anniversary of road racing in Watkins Glen was celebrated during the 1998 racing season, this event was the climax, returning many original cars and drivers to the original 6.6-mile (10.6 km) street circuit through the village during the Grand Prix Festival Race Reenactment.
One of the earliest known automobile races in New York City was in 1896, when six cars competed in a race between the city and Westchester County, New York. [15] In 1904, William Kissam Vanderbilt II began hosting the Vanderbilt Cup , held on a 25-mile (40 km) circuit of local dirt roads in Nassau County, Long Island .
Stock car racing events in the NASCAR Cup Series have taken place at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on the 2.454-mile (3.949 km) road course annually since 1986. Since 2018, the 90-lap, 221-mile (356 km) race has been known as Go Bowling at The Glen for sponsorship reasons. [2]
Auto racing was first presented at the former horse track located on Coffeen St in 1936 and again in 1940, when the Jefferson County Fair featured sprint car races sanctioned by the American Automobile Association. In 1949, the Fair introduced the International Midget Auto Racing Association, which returned for two additional shows the same ...
New York: 1960 Concrete .40 miles (0.64 km) Separated cross Indianapolis Speedrome: Indianapolis: Indiana: 1945 Asphalt Figure 8 World Championship Racing .60 miles (0.97 km) Flat cross Little Valley Speedway: Little Valley: New York: 1932–2011(figure 8 track) Clay .28 miles (0.45 km) Flat cross Manzanita Speedway: Phoenix: Arizona: 1951 ...
Syracuse, New York: 1955–1957 Track remained active until 2015. Was razed in 2016 as a part of a redevelopment project of the NYSF Tar Heel Speedway 0.250-mile dirt oval Randleman, North Carolina: Turkey Day 200 (1963) 1963 Closed after 1967; possibly hosted one racing event in 1975. Tennessee-Carolina Speedway 0.500-mile dirt oval Newport ...
New York State Fairgrounds Racetrack: Syracuse: New York: 1 mile (1.6 km) cinder 1903-2015 AAA / USAC Champ Cars (1924-1962) World of Outlaws (1978-1995) Super DIRTcar Series (1982-2015) Occoneechee Speedway (1954 renamed Orange Speedway) Hillsborough: North Carolina: 0.900 miles (1.448 km) black dirt 1947-1968 NASCAR Cup Series (1950-1968 ...
Riverhead Raceway is a quarter-mile (402 m) oval race track with a Figure 8 course, [2] located in Riverhead, New York. [1] It is the only auto racing venue on Long Island since Westhampton Raceway closed down in 2003. [3] It started being built in 1949 [1] and opened as a dirt track in 1951, before permanently changing to asphalt in 1955. [2]