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The speedway Board of Directors when the track opened consisted of Chairman Dan Lufkin, of Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette ; CEO David Lockton ; Donald Riehl, of DLJ ; William Loorz, CEO of Stolte Construction ; Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, and Dick Smothers from the entertainment industry ; J. C. Agajanian, an American motor sport promoter and race car owner ; Parnelli Jones, 1963 winner of the Indianapolis 500 ; Roger Penske, retired race car driver, race car owner and auto related business entrepreneur ; Briggs Cunningham, an American sportsman who raced cars and yachts ; and Chuck Barnes, Chairman and CEO of Sports Headliners, and former Director of Public Relations for Firestone Tires.
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* The Speedway Control Board, organization administrating motorcycle speedway in Great Britain
Following a power struggle between the Speedway Control Board and speedway club promoters, the British League was formed in 1965.
Following the approval, the Will County Board extended the Des Plains River Valley Enterprise Zone in order to give a tax break to the speedway developers.
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He ran many of the big super speedway races including Talladega Superspeedway in 1972, when he stunned the competition by turning laps that were 15 mph faster than his qualifying time.
Neil Bonnett holds the distinction of being the winner of the first ever NASCAR race held outside of North America when he won the 1988 Goodyear NASCAR 500 at the A $ 54 million Calder Park Thunderdome in Melbourne, Australia ( at the time the newly opened Thunderdome was also the first NASCAR style speedway to be built outside of North America ).
The speedway became the first sports facility in America to offer year round living accommodations when 40 condominiums were built overlooking turn 1 in 1984, twelve additional condominium units were later added in 1991.
The track became the first modern superspeedway to host night racing, and was the largest lighted speedway until 1998 when lights were installed around the Daytona International Speedway.
The race saw several blown tires after the speedway removed some rumble strips from the apron of the corners ; Kyle Petty was injured when he blew a tire, slammed into the outside and inside wall off turn four, and was T-boned by Sterling Marlin.
As it was, the speedway team ' Barrow Bombers ' who operated from Holker Street did so only for two years from 1972 till 1974, when the track was removed due to its unpopularity amongst other football clubs.
The following year, France sent a number of competitors to the Indiana speedway where on May 27, during qualifying, Boillot came tantalizing close to breaking the 100 mile-an-hour ( 161 km / h ) barrier when he set a new speed record of 99. 86 mph ( 160. 70 km / h ).
The property remained vacant for several years until the mid-1980s when a Hilton Hotel was built on turn 4 of the old speedway site.
Western Springs Stadium has been used for speedway since November 30, 1936 when motorcycling ( broad siding ) was introduced.
On 12 November 2011 the speedway will host its first ever World Championship event when it will host the FIM 2011 World Sidecar Speedway Championship with Murray Bridge based Mick Headland hoping to defend his title at his home track.
Many viewers of the commercial, including Lowe's Motor Speedway president Jerry Gappens, expressed their concern as it appeared the episode was parodying an actual incident that happened during a speedway race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May 1999, in Charlotte, North Carolina, when flying debris in a crash killed three spectators.
Seedhill, having hosted the Nelson Admirals speedway team between 1967 and 1969, latterly became a well known stock car venue before its eventual demolition around 1980 when the M65 motorway cut through the area.
The stadium was last used for speedway when it staged the Provincial League Riders ' Championship on 16 September 1961.
On 14 May 1938, when speedway racing was stopped early due to an accident, a crowd of 2, 000 demanded their money back.
Despite tracking very competitive looking teams in the mid 1980's the club never achieved the dizzy heights of the start of the decade, until 1990 when the appointment of loyal fan Tim Sugar as the team manager saw the club win the league title in both 1990 and 1992, with top rider Per Jonsson also crowned world speedway champion in 1990.
He was involved in an incredible accident at the Kentucky speedway on June 17 when he swerved to avoid Jason Leffler's spinning car and ended up hitting the inside wall at almost full speed.
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Oval tracks are classified as short track ( less than 1 mile ), intermediate or speedway ( 1 to 2 miles ) or superspeedway ( over 2 miles ).
The High Edge Raceway was the original home of the speedway team Buxton High Edge Hitmen in the mid-1990s before the team moved to the custom-built track immediately to the north of the original circuit.
In addition to Charlotte Motor Speedway, the company also owns and operates a dragstrip and dirt track facility adjacent to the speedway.
Located within the city are an athletic track, Australian football grounds, badminton courts, baseball diamonds, indoor basketball courts, indoor and outdoor cricket pitches, croquet turf, cycling ( velodrome and bmx track ), two 18-hole golf courses, a gymnastic centre, water bases hockey fields, the Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre used for equine sports, eleven bowling turfs, a kart-racing track, a speedway track and a motocross track, netball courts: twelve asphalt courts, 30 grass courts and an indoor synthetic court, an inline hockey court, rugby league and union fields ( nine senior fields and seven junior fields ).
In speedway some finals may have six riders depending on the size of the track and finals are generally held over six laps.
There was less celebration after the second race in 1977 as Gilles Villeneuve was involved in a crash that killed two spectators on the side of the track, leading to Formula One leaving the speedway.
* In season 1 episode 10 is set at a NASCAR track, a brief scene at 14 minutes reveals the track is the Irwindale speedway located in Los Angeles county.
The city has a motorcycle speedway track, Hayley Stadium, home to the Newport Wasps speedway team.
A short season in 1958 under former Glasgow Tigers promoter Ian Hoskins saw the end of the events at The Stadium but a short lived Long Track venture and a small speedway track staged four events — three on the long track and one on the short track — in 1972.
The racing took place initially on a loose shale track inside the greyhound track ; after Motorcycle speedway racing at the venue ceased the shale track was replaced with a hard tarmaced surface.
* Ascot Park ( speedway ), a motor racing track in Los Angeles
The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004, and the track repaved in 1978 and 2010.
To continue racing, speedway officials built the Daytona Flat Track, a new quarter-mile dirt track outside of Turns 1 and 2 of the main superspeedway.
Central Park is the site of Britain's most northerly speedway track.
The speedway track, which staged 8 meetings including a world championship qualifying round, was unusual in that it featured a brick wall safety fence.
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The speedway opened in 1959 by owner Bruton Smith, who is a native of Oakboro, NC.
Kentucky Speedway is a tri-oval speedway in Sparta, Kentucky, which has hosted ARCA, NASCAR and Indy Racing League racing annually since it opened in 2000.
The speedway has hosted the Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series, IndyCar Series, and the Firestone Indy Lights Series since the track opened, but the track didn't receive a Sprint Cup Series event until 2011.
On June 16, 2000, the speedway opened with a Slim Jim All Pro Series event.
One year after the speedway opened, it held its first Busch Series event, with Kevin Harvick emerging as the winner.
The speedway opened in 2001 and currently hosts NASCAR racing including the opening event in the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue ( Gorton ), Manchester, England, opened in 1836.
The sport proved to be very popular, and the decision was taken to convert the 1887 athletics ground into a speedway stadium, which opened on 23 March 1929.
It opened on 22 July 1956 and has since hosted crowds of over 120, 000 for both football matches and motorcycle speedway world championships.
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