* 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.

Normally used an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand alone series, with National, State and Club events and Championships. The first NASCAR " Strictly Stock " race ever was held at Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class.

Stockcar racing began in New Zealand during the 1950s, first race was at Aranui Speedway on November 27, 1954.

* Auto Racing-Toledo Speedway is a local auto racetrack that features, among other events, stock car racing and concerts.

The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway, which Newman narrated.

Speedway racing takes place on asphalt or clay oval tracks which are normally between 1 / 6 mile and 1 / 4 mile long.

In 2008 a MotoGP event was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time on a newly prepared track, and observers noted that the Speedway had hosted motorcycle racing before cars raced there.

The oldest ( 1919 ) continuously operating automobile racing dirt track in the US is the Orange County Fair Speedway, Middletown, NY

* Charlotte Motor Speedway, an auto racing track located in Concord, North Carolina ( in the Charlotte metropolitan area )

Within Dover International Speedway is Dover Downs, a harness horse racing track.

** Martinsville Speedway, an auto racing track located just outside the Virginia city

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

The paper clip-shaped Martinsville Speedway, the shortest track in NASCAR stock car racing

He spent years racing at many local short tracks, including Southside Speedway in Midlothian, Virginia.

Richmond County is well known for its history in racing, with the advent of the Rockingham Speedway which opened in 1965.

The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.

Speedway racing was staged at Crayford Greyhound Stadium.

For many years Wimbledon Stadium has been host to Greyhound racing as well as Stock car racing and Speedway.

Speedway racing was staged in Great Yarmouth before and after the Second World War.

Dirt track auto racing takes place at the Kings Speedway from March through October.

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

Childress ' second-year Busch Series driver Kevin Harvick was named as Earnhardt's replacement driver, beginning with the race following Earnhardt's death held at the North Carolina Speedway.

Speedway was staged at four venues in the City.

Richard's grandson, Adam Petty, was killed in an accident at New Hampshire International Speedway on May 12, 2000, five weeks after the death of Lee.

* 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.

It was brought to New Zealand after New Zealand Speedway riders witnessed the huge crowds that watched the races in Britain earlier that year.

The stabbing death of Meredith Hunter by a Hell's Angel at the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway was captured and shown in Albert and David Maysles ' documentary film Gimme Shelter.

Eventually, a stock car race was held at Daytona International Speedway in 1959.

Events in 1938 and 1939 are well known but it is possible that a venue was active from at least 1931 as a team named Staines raced at Caxton Speedway ( near Cambridge 1931-1933 inclusive ).

In August 2011, it was revealed that V8 Supercars Australia was in the process of negotiating to hold a race at Clark International Speedway in the Philippines from 2013.

Carl G. Fisher was an early automobile entrepreneur who was the manufacturer of Prest-O-Lite compressed carbide-gas headlights used on most early cars, and was also one of the principal investors who built the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The North Wilkesboro Speedway was the first NASCAR ( National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing ) track ; it held its first race on May 18, 1947 As noted above, Wilkes County native and resident Junior Johnson was one of the early superstars of NASCAR, as well as a legendary moonshiner.

The North Wilkesboro Speedway was closed following the 1996 NASCAR season after two new owners, Bob Bahre and Bruton Smith, moved North Wilkesboro's NASCAR races to their tracks in Texas and New Hampshire.

Speedway racing was staged at California in Reading.

Speedway was staged on a track in City Way, which opened in 1932.

Speedway racing was staged at the Greyhound Stadium in Melton Mowbray in 1949.

Speedway racing was staged at the stadium in 1997.

Speedway racing was staged at the New Cross Speedway and Greyhound Stadium, situated at the end of Hornshay Street, off Ilderton Road.

Speedway is staged just outside the town.

Speedway has been staged at nearby Matchams Park.

Speedway was staged at the Greyhound Stadium as the home of the Glasgow Tigers in the late 1970s / early 1980s before the new road forced a move to Craighead Park which closed down at the end of the 1986 season.

Speedway racing, earlier known as Dirt track racing, was staged at a track on the southern edge of the town in 1930.

Speedway racing was staged at the racecourse.

Speedway racing was staged in the Bothwell Castle estate area in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Speedway racing was staged at the greyhound stadium in the town in 1930.

From 1996 to 2000 the CART series staged events at Jacarepaguá in an accessory trapezoid-shaped speedway named Emerson Fittipaldi Speedway having approximately 3 km ( 1. 864 mi ) length.

Speedway racing was staged at the greyhound stadium in Hazel Grove in 1937 although details of the meetings are quite sketchy.