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The Oakland Speedway was a motor racing track in San Leandro, California, a suburb of Oakland, California. It was a one-mile, banked dirt oval track built in 1931, which operated throughout the Great Depression and postwar years.
The 1954 season included 9 individual races, with Oakland Speedway and Balboa Stadium both hosting two events. [1] Multiple of the season's races were in combination with the NASCAR Grand National Series.
Carey went on to win rain-shortened races at the dirt tracks in Detroit and Syracuse, [1] [2] and clinched the 1932 national title by finishing second in the season finale at Oakland Speedway with points leader Frame dropping out. [2] No other rookie driver would win the national championship until reigning Formula One world champion Nigel ...
The 1954 Mid-South 250 was a NASCAR Grand National race that took place on October 10, 1954, at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway in the community of LeHi, Arkansas. One hundred and sixty-seven laps were raced on a dirt track spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km). Twelve-thousand people attended this untelevised race where Buck Baker won in his 1954 Oldsmobile.
On Memorial Day, May 26, 1947 Sweikert ran his first race for prize money at the Oakland Speedway, and finished second. Sweikert then quit automotive repair and became a full-time driver. He gained his first racing sponsorship in July 1947, when he became a track roadster race driver for Hubbard Auto Parts of Oakland.
A postman from Redlands, California [2] who also became a Long Beach night club owner among other things, [1] Gordon took up racing in 1925. [2]Gordon made nine starts in the AAA-sanctioned national championship from 1932 to 1935 and entered two non-points paying races after that, scoring a win at Oakland Speedway in January 1936.
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The 1932 AAA Championship Car season consisted of six races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in San Leandro, California on November 13. The AAA National Champion was Bob Carey and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Fred Frame.