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The Riverside International Speedway is an automobile racing facility at 151 Legion Road in West Memphis, Arkansas. Its facilities consist of a 0.25-mile (0.40 km) Gumbo clay oval [3] with banked corners, bleacher seating on both straightaways. Amenities include a concession stand.
Memphis-Arkansas Speedway: West Memphis: Arkansas: 1.5 miles (2.4 km) ground dirt 1954-1957 NASCAR Cup Series (1954-1957) 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 ...
Riverside International Speedway is designed as a scaled-down version of the famed Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. In 1967 track builder John Chisholm called up NASCAR co-founder Bill France, Sr. and told him about his intentions of building a half mile racetrack in Nova Scotia. Big Bill told Chisholm that a half mile track would ...
Memphis-Arkansas Speedway: 1.500-mile dirt oval LeHi, Arkansas: Mid-South 250 (1954–1955) 1954–1957 Closed due to owner's inability to afford the $100,000 cost to pave the speedway, as the dirt had become unmanagable and dangerous; layout remains intact. [17] Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway: 1.000-mile dirt oval Detroit, Michigan
Riverside International Speedway (West Memphis, Arkansas), a 1/4 mile dirt oval outside Memphis, Tennessee; Groveton Riverside Speedway, 1/4 mile, high banked, asphalt short track located in Groveton, New Hampshire; Circuit Riverside Speedway Ste-Croix, 5/8 mile oval and 1.7 km road course in Sainte-Croix, Quebec, Canada
The Memphis-Arkansas Speedway was a dirt oval track located just west of West Memphis, Arkansas, United States, in the community of Lehi. [1]This speedway had a total distance spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km), and at the time was the longest oval track visited by NASCAR (and the longest dirt oval track to this day). [2]
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Another racetrack in the Memphis metro area is Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. It is a 1/4 mile dirt track that runs 305 winged sprints, late models, modifieds, 600cc mini sprints, and stock-cars. The Track opened June 10th, 1950 making it one of the longest continuously operated tracks in the nation.