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Cecil County Dragway: Rising Sun Maryland: 1963: Concrete: 1/4 mile ... pro 4's, super modifieds also connected is Drag Racing 1/4 mile and a MX Race track ...
1963 – Track is widened by 10 feet for safety and a dual-lane timer is installed. Alfred Stauffer and other family members visit Cecil Country Dragway for ideas and it is decided to expand the track again for the ’64 season. [2] 1964 – Track is lengthened to 4,000 feet long and 60 feet wide to allow quarter-mile racing.
Du Pont's interests in racing extended to the development and design of racecourses. In all, he created 23 racecourses, including Fair Hill, a steeplechase course at Fair Hill in Cecil County, Maryland, and Delaware Park Racetrack for flat racing. The latter opened on June 26, 1937.
Barbaro walking to the track at Fair Hill a week after winning the Kentucky Derby.. Fair Hill Training Center is a racehorse training center based in Fair Hill, Maryland.It was owned by William du Pont, Jr. of the well-known Du Pont family, who bought the land in 1926.
Moore County is currently known as a golf destination; last month, more than 200,000 people showed up for the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst. But if local enthusiasts are successful, it might become ...
Fair Hill is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. [1] Fair Hill is located at the intersection of Maryland routes 213 and 273, north of Elkton. It is home to the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area, a 5,613 acre protected area formerly part of the land holdings of William duPont, Jr. [2]
(In addition, the horse racing community was deeply resentful of oil-dripping cars being run on the horse-oriented dirt racing surface.) There was a temporary auto-racing circuit held in the race track parking lot during the mid-1960s and between 1987 and 1992. The latter hosted an IMSA Camel GT race. Both circuits were 1.600 mi (2.575 km) long ...
Orange County Fair Speedway: Unknown Qualifying Wheel brake locked, car rolled over several times, hit a guardrail and threw Albertson out onto the track [31] Michele Alboreto (ITA) 2001-04-25 Sports car Audi R8: EuroSpeedway Lausitz: Testing Tire failed, car went airborne, somersaulted, roll bar collapsed and crushed Alboreto to death [32]