The SCCA began sanctioning professional racing in 1963, when the United States Road Racing Championship was formed.

Road racing events can be of virtually any distance, but the most common and well known are the marathon, half marathon, 10 km and 5 km.

Road racing courses come in two primary types: looped and point-to-point.

Motorcycle speedway racing was staged at a stadium in Wraysbury Road.

Further splits in the American scene saw the Grand American Road Racing Association form a separate series, the Rolex Sports Car Series, with its own GT and prototype rules aimed at providing cheaper, lower-cost racing for independent teams.

Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing.

Jacques ' uncle, Jacques Sr., was also a racing driver and in 1985 at Road America became the first Canadian to win a CART race.

Speedway racing was staged at a stadium in New Hammond Beck Road in the 1970s and 1980s.

* Allan Davis, Road racing cyclist, 2009 Tour Down Under Winner

Horse racing has also left its mark in the naming of roads in Singapore such as Race Course Road in Little India where horse racing was first held in Singapore and Turf Club Road in Bukit Timah where Singapore Turf Club used to be before moving to its current location in 1999.

Collinsville Road supports, among other things, a NASCAR track, a gambling casino, a live horse racing track, and Cahokia Mounds.

Road America was built in 1955 with the first racing being held on September 10 & 11, 1955.

* Rolf Sørensen was at one point the leader of the UCI Road World Cup in road bicycle racing, and grew up here.

Paul Smith left school at the age of 14, a member of Beeston Road Club his only ambition was to become a racing cyclist until his father hauled him off to work at a clothing warehouse.

In 1917, the Jefferson Park Race Track was opened near the intersection of Jefferson Highway and Shrewsbury Road and was a favorite horse racing venue for many years.

Road bicycle racing

Road bicycle racing

Road bicycle racing

Road racing

At the corner of Harper Road is the former site of Pole Position ( 155 – 157 ), which was a motorcycle workshop and racing team HQ that relocated to East London in 2009.

In 2003, KTM started sponsoring and supporting Road racing in various capacities, with the most successful results stemming from their Supermotard or Supermoto efforts.

Tobacco Road is dead.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

The school is located at 9-1/2 Mile Road, Woodward Heights.

Houghton said 6 p.m. Friday had been set for a canvass of all 480 homes in the subdivision, which is located northeast of Dequindre and 14 Mile Road East.

One of the most fascinating and intriguing aspects of Ancestral Puebloan infrastructure is at Chaco Canyon and is the Chaco Road, a system of roads radiating out from many great house sites such as Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl and Una Vida, and leading towards small outlier sites and natural features within and beyond the canyon limits.

The longest and most famous of these roads is the Great North Road.

This religious explanation is supported by modern Pueblo beliefs about a North Road leading to their place of origin and along which the spirits of the dead travel.

* Avenue, see Road ( Ave. is more frequent )

The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.

" Tjaden appears as a well-liked school teacher in the sequel, The Road Back, but it is unclear whether he is the same person as in the prequel.

The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

For many this area is the highlight of any visit to Aberdour ; parking at the foot of Shore Road is usually at a premium.

A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.

Another, more specialized route is the ' Deutsche Uhrenstraße ' (" German Clock Road "), a circular route which traces the horological history of the region.

The capital, Road Town, is situated on Tortola, the largest island, which is approximately long and wide.

He then went to San Juan secondary, which is located in Moreau Road, Lower Santa Cruz.

The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western District on Hong Kong Island.

The book and its sequel, The Road Back, were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany.

The Mills Industrial Park at 874 Silver Lake Scotchtown Road () was the planned location for the 1969 Woodstock Festival until the Town of Walkill banned the festival in July 1969 forcing it to move to Bethel, New York where it was held less than a month later.

Road racing sidecars began to change away from normal motorcycle development in the 1950s with them becoming lower and using smaller diameter wheels and they kept the enclosed " dustbin fairing " banned in solo competition in 1957.

The island ( off Baddegana Road, Pita Kotte ) had been used as a recreation and brawling spot for Portuguese soldiers in the last days of the Kotte era, alcohol being banned from the Royal City.

In July 1970, as one of the first people to be breathalized, he was banned from driving for a year and fined 75 pounds with 20 guineas costs for having consumed more than the permitted level of alcohol in Old Brompton Road at 4 a. m. on 21 March 1970.

An agreement with the Road Time Trials Council meant that it too banned him.

Clubs could not affiliate to both the NCU and the BLRC ; riders who raced in BLRC races were banned from NCU events and from time trials run by the Road Time Trials Council.

As a member of the North Road Cycling Club, he helped organise a rebel individual time trial, on 5 October 1895, at a time when the National Cyclists ' Union had banned racing on roads.

Motorbikes are banned from some roads within Naypyidaw city limits, including sections of Taw Win Yadana Road, resulting from hundreds of traffic accident-related deaths in 2009.