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Racing in the Pikes Peak Region included 19th century horse tracks (e.g., to the west of Colorado Springs' Palmer House along Fountain Creek by 1882 [4] and to the north by 1903, the "Roswell Racing Park"), [5] and the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb started in 1916 on the 1915 Pikes Peak Highway.
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an annual automobile hillclimb to the summit of Pikes Peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. The track measures 12.42 miles (19.99 km) and has over 156 turns, climbing 4,720 ft (1,440 m) from the start at mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway, to the finish at 14,115 ...
Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb: Pikes Peak Highway: Pikes Peak, Colorado: Hill Slim Roberts B: Bobby Unser: 5 July 14 Atlanta 100: Lakewood Speedway: Atlanta, Georgia: Dirt Bob Veith: Eddie Sachs: NC: July 22 Indianapolis Sweepstakes Williams Grove Speedway: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Dirt Ed Elisian: Jimmy Bryan: NC: August 12 Dayton 25 Dayton ...
Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway: Detroit, Michigan: Dirt Jimmy Reece: Bill Vukovich: 7 September 1 Ted Horn Memorial DuQuoin State Fairgrounds: Du Quoin, Illinois: Dirt Bill Schindler: Chuck Stevenson: 8 September 1 Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb: Pikes Peak Highway: Pikes Peak, Colorado: Hill Al Rogers B: George Hammond: 9 September 6 Syracuse ...
There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was A. J. Foyt . At Indianapolis in the 500 mile race Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald were killed during lap 2 of the race; Sachs was 37 years old, and MacDonald was 27.
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Route 66 Raceway is a motorsports facility located in Joliet, Illinois, United States. It consists of a 0.25-mile (0.40 km) dragstrip and a 0.375-mile (0.604 km) dirt oval racetrack (Dirt Oval 66). The facility is owned and operated by NASCAR and is located adjacent to Chicagoland Speedway.
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