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The “Blue Knight” Tom Reffner of Rudolph, Wis., wheeling his 1974 AMC Javelin, won the very first ARTGO Wayne Carter Classic at the Grundy County Speedway on September 7, 1975. Collecting $825 for his winning effort, Reffner defeated Bob Roper, Joe Shear, Tom Musgrave and Dick Trickle, who was driving Ted Musgrave’s car. Updated: Biographies & …
Car racing in Chicagoland, history; Car Racing in …
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Regardless, Chicago has the longest history of auto racing, hosting the nation’s first “moto-cycle” race in 1895. It was a chilly Thanksgiving …
Chicagoland Racing - SPEED SPORT
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Going way back in history, Chicagoland’s Raceway Park opened its stock car racing season in the 1950s usually on Easter Sunday afternoon. With the exception of 1950, 1958 and 1959, the “World’s Busiest Track” opened its gates each year to thousands of fans who were hungry for the competition provided at the short, quarter-mile, oval.
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KALWASINSKI: A Look Back In Chicago History - SPEED …
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CHICAGO — Before getting too far into 2020, let’s take a look at Chicagoland auto racing, 10 and 25 years ago – the years were 2010 and 1995. 2010 – Pretty much the dominant driver every Friday night, Brett Sontag scored another late model stock car track championship at Grundy County Speedway in Morris, Ill., giving Sontag a total of five late model crowns at the …
Chicagoland Speedway - Wikipedia
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Chicagoland Speedway is a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) tri-oval speedway in Joliet, Illinois, southwest of Chicago.The speedway opened in 2001 and actively hosted NASCAR racing including the NASCAR Cup Series until 2019. Until 2010, the speedway has also hosted the IndyCar Series, recording numerous close finishes including the closest finish in IndyCar history.. The …
Early Chicago Racetracks — chicagology
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When this property came into the hands of the present lessees in May, 1891, it was called Garfield Park, and Mr. Corrigan’s new track, opened May 20, was known as the Chicago Racing Association, a name that has gone into disuse in favor of “Hawthorne,” the name of an adjacent railway station.
Motor Sports - Encyclopedia of Chicago
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Small oval tracks flourished in and around Chicago. Raceway Park, a one-fifth-mile asphalt oval near Blue Island, opened in 1938 and by the 1950s was hosting more than 60 stock car races and 15 midget car races a year. During the 1940s, midget car racing also thrived as an indoor event at the International Amphitheater.
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CHICAGO MOTOR SPEEDWAY
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CHICAGO MOTOR SPEEDWAY. By Stan Kalwasinski . Having a short run on the local racing scene, the Chicago Motor Speedway, located at 33 rd Street and Laramie Ave. in Cicero, was in the process of being dismantled in February/2005, bringing down the curtain on only four years of actual racing. With the development plans announced in 1998, the track, which involved the …
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