In the United States, speedways have been variously located next to junkyards, jammed next to suburban sprawl and occasionally plopped in the middle of their hometowns.
Without question, NASCAR dropped a million jaws when it moved the Busch Light Clash to a temporary track constructed around the gridiron inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
There was without a doubt a time when a lot of people figured road racing in this country was all about amateur racers politely slicing at each other in foreign-built sports cars, enjoying the camaraderie and basically having a good time. Road racing was the playground of weekend enthusiasts.
The list of new venues for NASCAR’s top series was gradually growing as the 1960s commenced. The yawning expanse of Daytona Int’l Speedway had closed out the previous decade and sweeping new ovals near Charlotte and Atlanta were quickly propelling NASCAR into the superspeedway era. The biggest tracks, however, weren’t…
In the late summer of 1813, U.S. Naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry put the wind at his back and sailed forth with his squadron of light brigs from the tiny port at Put-In-Bay, Ohio, after the War of 1812 had spilled across the Great Lakes.
Time seemingly trickles like a shallow stream in the rolling hills of Oley Township, Pa., tucked tightly into bucolic Berks County. Its quietude and wafting aromas of agriculture belie its lofty place in history.
