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Legends car racing, Bandolero Cars, Pure Stock, Modified, Late Models, Super Late Models, Trucks, Bombers, Sportsman, Demolition Derbies The Speedway At Willow Springs: California Rosamond: 0.25 miles (0.40 km) Oval: Late Models, Street Stocks, Hobby Stocks, Mini Stocks, WRA Vintage Sprint Cars, Southwest Tour Truck Series, Skid Plate I-25 Speedway
Altamont Raceway Park is a motorsports race track in the western United States, located in northern California, west of Tracy.It opened on July 22, 1966, and operated under the names Altamont Speedway, Altamont Raceway, Altamont Motorsports Park, Altamont Raceway Park and Arena, and Bernal Memorial Raceway.
The track is featured in video games such as the Gran Turismo series (since the second installment, including the bike version Tourist Trophy), the Forza Motorsport series, and the MotoGP series. In a bid to compare real life versus video games, Jeremy Clarkson of the British automotive show Top Gear attempted to beat his Gran Turismo 4 time of ...
In 1950 and 1951 the Bay Meadows 150 AAA Indy Car race was run at the track. [citation needed] In 1954, 1955 and 1956 the track was used for NASCAR. In the 1955 event, Elias Bowie became the first African-American to start a top-level NASCAR race. All of the exterior scenes in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 heist movie The Killing were filmed at Bay ...
Los Angeles, California 1957 1959 1961 Race held in 1957 under the track name Los Angeles Speedway; race in 1959 under the name New Ascot Stadium. Closed in 1990. Now the site of a car auction lot. Asheville–Weaverville Speedway: 0.540-mile dirt oval Weaverville, North Carolina: Western North Carolina 500 (1958–1969) Fireball 300 (1966–1969)
The race was revived at the new Cal Expo site as a USAC Silver Crown race from 1989 until 2000. Motorcycle racing's Sacramento Mile continues to be held at the new California Exposition as part of the AMA Grand National Championship. A 2.1-mile (3.4-km) road course was laid out in the parking lots surrounding the oval, and used for sports car ...
Thunderhill has two tracks: the original 2.866 mi (4.612 km) track known as Thunderhill East and a 2.000 mi (3.219 km) track known as Thunderhill West. The two tracks can also be combined to offer a 4.600 mi (7.403 km) track. Thunderhill also offers two large skid pad areas as well for drifting and car control events.