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Spencer Speedway is a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) flat asphalt oval located in Williamson, New York. The track was built by brothers Del, Walt and Merele Spencer, and opened in August 1955. [ 1 ] It was purchased by John White in 2005, who also owned the Chemung Speedrome .
The following summer Petrocci was fatally injured while visiting the Spencer Speedway when a race car became airborne and crashed into the pit-side grandstands. Petrocci's sons Robert Jr. and Darryl took over operations at the track, and soon teamed up with promoter Glenn Donnelly to become one of the three original tracks that made up Drivers ...
Jim Shampine began drag racing in 1959 at the quarter-mile ESTA Safety Park Dragstrip in Cicero, New York. Then in 1962 he bought his friend Nolan Swift's championship-winning “Ten Pin” numbered modified, converted it to a supermodified, and renumbered it the enduring “8-Ball”.
In all, Evans won more than 480 feature races at at least 40 different tracks across the United States, but the bulk of his wins came in New York: 66 at Shangri-La Motor Speedway in Owego, 42 at ...
He won the Sportsman championship in 1953 and 1954 at Canandaigua Speedway (Canandaigua, New York). [8] He was the Modified division champion at Shangri-La Speedway (Owego, New York) in 1965, 1969, and 1970. [9] In 1965 through 1967, Hoag won three consecutive track championships at Spencer Speedway (Williamson, New York). [10]
Memphis-Arkansas Speedway: West Memphis: Arkansas: 1.5 miles (2.4 km) ground dirt 1954-1957 NASCAR Cup Series (1954-1957) New York State Fairgrounds Racetrack: Syracuse: New York: 1 mile (1.6 km) cinder 1903-2015 AAA / USAC Champ Cars (1924-1962) World of Outlaws (1978-1995) Super DIRTcar Series (1982-2015) Occoneechee Speedway (1954 renamed ...
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Robert "Bob" Zeigler (August 9, 1929 – February 22, 2023) was a driver and promoter of modified stock car racing.Equally adept at driving on both dirt and asphalt surfaces, he was recognized for his driving talent and respected for building a speedway during what many believe to be the golden age of stock car racing.