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Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).
Earnhardt began his professional career at the Winston Cup in 1975, making his debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600.
* NASCAR was hosted at Dover International Speedway, most drivers have special paint jobs with America flags for honor of the September 11 attacks, in God Bless the USA which was composed by Lee Greenwood, showed the aftermath of the World Trade Center in New York City.
* Walt Disney World Speedway ( Home of the Richard Petty Driving Experience )
Silesian Stadium is a home stadium for the Polish national football team, and used for international football games and other events ( for example, it has held the Speedway World Championships four times, with the 1973 World Final attracting over 120, 000 spectators ).
At the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sharpie 500, held at Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee on August 23, 2008, 168, 000 people performed the wave to set a new Guinness World Record.
Speedway racing was staged in Great Yarmouth before and after the Second World War.
The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.
Between 1936 and 1960 Wembley hosted all of the first fifteen finals of the Speedway World Championship.
Speedway first took place at Wembley in 1929 and operated until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, a few days before the 1939 World Championship Final was due to be held but was cancelled as a result.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Indy 500 and the World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway were held on different days of the week.
Ullevi has also hosted Motorcycle speedway and hosted the Speedway World Championship on no less than eight occasions, second only to Wembley Stadium in London, England which hosted the World Final a record 26 times.
Since the World Championship was changed in 1995 from a single meeting Final to the Speedway Grand Prix ( SGP ), Ullevi has hosted a round of the series in 2002, 2003, 2004 ( Grand Prix of Scandinavia ), 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 ( Grand Prix of Sweden ).
Five time World Champion Juan Fangio practiced at the Speedway in 1958, but ultimately decided against it.
They won the 2007 European Speedway Club Champions ' Cup with World champion Jason Crump.
* Speedway World Cup
In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing.
In speedway racing Denmark has won several world championships, including the Speedway World Cup in 2006 and 2008.
* Zenon Plech ( born 1953 ), Speedway World Championships runner-up in 1979 bronze medalist in 1973, former Stal Gorzów coach and rider.
Derrick Close represented Lanarkshire Eagles and England in the 1952 Speedway World Championship Final.
Tracy also competed in one Camping World Truck Series race in 2008 at Texas Motor Speedway, where he finished 20th for Germain Racing.
Waltrip won only one NASCAR Winston Cup race in 1976, the Virginia 500, at Martinsville Speedway in, but in 1977 and 1978, working with legendary Nascar crew chief Buddy Parrott, he won six times each year, including his first of four career victories at the Talladega Superspeedway, in Talladega, AL, on May 1, 1977, and his first of a record five career victories in the series ' longest race, the Coca-Cola 600 ( formerly the World 600 ), May 28, 1978.

Speedway and Champion
* WTS Wrocław — motorcycle speedway team ; multi medalist in the Polish Speedway League ( last time Polish Speedway Champion in 2006 season ).
Australian Northern Territory Speedway Champion circa 1970-Still holds records today
* Peter Collins, 1976 World Speedway Champion
He had already won the second race of the season Feb 28th 1993 at North Carolina Motor Speedway but also a sad one as his friend and reigning NASCAR Champion Alan Kulwicki was killed flying into Bristol Speedway in April 1993, because of this Rusty won the race at Bristol and in respect to Alan Kulwicki he did a " Polish victory lap "— turning his car around and driving around the track the wrong way, as made famous by Kulwicki.
Gant got his last Cup victory on August 16, 1992, at the Champion Spark Plug 400 at Michigan International Speedway.
Harvick became the 2002 IROC Champion in his first season in the Series, winning at the California Speedway.
Notable in motorsports are: Two time DTM ( Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters ) and Race of Champions winner Mattias Ekström, Multiple Speedway World Champion Tony Rickardsson ; British Touring Car Champion Rickard Rydell and the IRL and Indy 500 champion Kenny Bräck, F1 Grand Prix winner, Ronnie Peterson and Björn Waldegård who won the Safari Rally in 1977, the Monte Carlo Rally in 1969 and 1970 as well as the British RAC Rally in 1977.
The same car then ran the Pepsi 6 Hour Champion Spark Plug Challenge at the Daytona International Speedway three days later and finished in 17th ( out of 71 cars ) with 130 laps.
Skinner was also hired by Michael Waltrip Racing to drive the # 00 Champion Mortgage car in the Sprint Cup Series for 3 races: Michigan, Bristol, and Auto Club Speedway.
Ned called his son Dale's first victory ( in his 129th race ) in the 1991 Champion 400 at the Michigan International Speedway.
He was also crowned the 2002 NASCAR Weekly Racing Series Midwest Champion after another Modified championship at Lakeside Speedway and a Late Model championship at the famed I-70 Speedway in Odessa, MO, his first attempt at racing on asphalt.
In 2001, he won the Madison International Speedway Late Model Track Champion, and the Midwest All Racing Series ( MARS ) Championship and Rookie of the Year.
Liverpool Speedway continued to run the Australian Speedcar Grand Prix on both the asphalt and dirt until 1988 with such winners as 10 time Australian Sprintcar Champion Garry Rush in 1977, Ron " Sleepy " Tripp of the United States in 1983 and 1984 and after the track had reverted to a clay surface, World of Outlaws legend Steve Kinser would swap his Sprintcar for a Speedcar and win in 1986.
He was the World Speedway Champion in 1981 and 1982 and rode for the successful Cradley Heath Heathens speedway team in the United Kingdom.
His great-uncle, Ivan Mauger, is a former six time Speedway World Champion.
White competed a total of 22 times of the 55 races that year, winning his first NASCAR race at the season-opening event at the Champion Speedway in Fayetteville, NC.

Speedway and 6
* December 6 – The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California.
Speedway racing takes place on asphalt or clay oval tracks which are normally between 1 / 6 mile and 1 / 4 mile long.
It is now well known for its retail area along Route 6, which includes a movie multiplex, many different chain stores and restaurants, the Seekonk Speedway, a " fast track " destination for ARC or auto racing club, as well as the Seekonk Golf Driving Range with batting cages and new miniature golf.
Langley Speedway in Hampton, seating 6, 500, hosts stock car races every weekend during Spring, Summer, and early Fall.
California Jam, also known as Cal Jam, was a rock music festival concert held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California on April 6, 1974.
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was an infamous rock concert held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in northern California, between Tracy and Livermore.
#" Speedway at Nazareth " – 6: 23
#" Speedway at Nazareth " – 6: 23
#" Speedway at Nazareth " – 6: 23
Rusty's first win came on April 6, 1986, at Bristol Motor Speedway.
On April 14, 1993 Speedway President Tony George, and the president of NASCAR, Bill France, Jr. jointly announced the Inaugural Brickyard 400 would be held Saturday August 6, 1994.
The track is referred by the classic term of a " superspeedway " ( a track of one mile ( 1. 6 km ) or longer, compared to a short track ), and is named to differentiate itself from the. 596 mile Nashville Speedway USA ( now Fairgrounds Speedway ) at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds near downtown Nashville.
Turn One ( 14 degree banking ) was modeled after the now defunct Trenton Speedway, Turn Two ( also known as " The Tunnel Turn ") is like Indianapolis Motor Speedway ( 9 degree banking ), and Turn 3 ( 6 degree banking ) is similar to The Milwaukee Mile.
On July 6, 1983, Hodgdon completed 100 percent purchase of Bristol Motor Speedway, as well as Nashville Speedway, in a buy-sell agreement with Baker.
In the fall of 2002 students from Sullivan East High School in Bluff City attended the skyboxes at the Speedway as temporary schooling, due to an outbreak of black mold that closed the school for nearly 6 weeks.
It runs from Edison, Nebraska, at U. S. Highway 6 and U. S. Highway 34 to the Interstate 74 / Interstate 465 interchange in Speedway, Indiana.
* tC RS 6. 0 only available in Speedway Blue with 1100 units produced
On 6 February 1977, out of 57 cars that started the 24 Hours of Daytona, Championship of Makes, at Daytona International Speedway, an AMC Hornet driven by Tom Waugh, John Rulon-Miller, and Bob Punch drove car # 15 to 22nd place overall and 12th in the GTO class by completing 394 laps in.
Irvan made three starts in Ulrich's # 6 car, finishing 15th at Martinsville, 22nd at North Wilkesboro Speedway, and 19th at Riverside.
Round 6 was at the Texas Motor Speedway and Briscoe qualified second.
* 2010 Scion tC RS 6. 0 (" Speedway Blue ")

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