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Detroit, Michigan Motor City 250 (1951–1952) 1951–1952 Now the site of an Amazon warehouse. Monroe County Fairgrounds: 0.500-mile dirt oval Rochester, New York: 1950–1956 1958 Track closed c. 1962; briefly reopened during 1981. Now the site of a daycare. Montgomery Motor Speedway: 0.500-mile dirt oval Montgomery, Alabama) 1955 Paved in 1956
Michigan International Speedway (formerly named as the Michigan Speedway from 1997 to 2000) is a 2.000 mi (3.219 km) D-shaped oval superspeedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.It has hosted various major auto racing series throughout its existence, including NASCAR, CART, and IndyCar races.
International Speedway Corporation (ISC) was a corporation whose primary business was the ownership and management of motorsports race tracks.ISC was founded by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. in 1953 for the construction of Daytona International Speedway and in 1999 it merged with Penske Motorsports to become one of the largest motorsports companies in North America.
Speedway Motorsports, LLC is an American company that owns and manages auto racing facilities that host races sanctioned by NASCAR, NHRA, World of Outlaws and other racing series. The company was founded by Bruton Smith and has its headquarters at Charlotte Motor Speedway , in Concord, North Carolina , just north of Charlotte.
With the 10-race playoffs opening Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, NASCAR and its teams remain bitterly locked in a years-long feud on an extension of the franchise system at the heart of the ...
Flat Rock Speedway in 2021. Flat Rock Speedway was constructed in 1952, but financial issues led to the original investors backing out. Under Sheldon Hayes of the Cadillac Asphalt Company, the track was completed in 1953; using 70 tons of a mixture of rubber and asphalt, Hayes created a "rubberized" asphalt surface that was the first of its kind for a race track.
Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city in the world.” The Michigan Central Station train depot in November, 2011. For years, it stood as a haunting symbol of the city's decline and fall.
Whenever Music City comes up on the NASCAR schedule, texts fly to see who’s spending an extra day or two in town to enjoy all the options. After another successful race this weekend at Nashville ...