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1936 AAA Championship Car season

The 1936 AAA Championship Car season consisted of four races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Westbury, New York on October 12.

1954 AAA Championship Car season

The 1954 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 14.

1988 Motorcraft Quality Parts 500

It was considered to be a part of a series of spring races at Atlanta Motor Speedway that haven't been run since 2010.

1996 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain

The 1996 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain was the fifth race of the 1996 Speedway Grand Prix season.

1997 Winchester 400

Making only his second appearance at the famed Winchester Speedway, Hank Parker, Jr. led the final 54 laps to capture the 28th annual Winchester 400.

2011 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

The 2011 Individual Speedway Under 21 World Championship will be the 2011 version of FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship season.

2011 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy

The 2011 FIM Nice Italian Speedway Grand Prix was the sixth race of the 2011 Speedway Grand Prix season.

Antonín Kasper

Antonín Kasper, Jr. (1962–2006), his son, Czech speedway rider, 1982 Individual U-21 World Champion

Aquasco Speedway

Richard Petty, Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme, Bunny Burkett are among some of the great drag racers who raced on the now defunct speedway.

Arlo Bugeja

Arlo (Budgie) Bugeja (born 18 March 1986 in Humbug Scrub, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian speedway rider.

BLRC

British League Riders' Championship, UK motorcycle speedway championship staged between 1965 and 1994

Charlie Merz

Unfortunately, the race also produced the first fatalities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when 26-year-old driver Wilfred Bourque and his 22-year-old riding mechanic Harry Holcomb struck a fence post.

Charlotte Motor Speedway

H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler and the speedway then sponsored the funding for the traveling sculpture exhibition to be featured by Belk College of Business on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where a self-guided tour of the campus-wide display was extended to the end of July.

The feature of the April 2005 Food Lion Auto Fair at the speedway was a popular sculpture exhibition, Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs.

Comfort Classic

In 2000, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway started hosting the United States Grand Prix, which created an unfavorable tight scheduling conflict with the golf tournament.

Flat Rock Speedway

Flat Rock Speedway is a racetrack located in Ash Township, Monroe County, Michigan, though the mailing address is Flat Rock, Michigan.

Fleetwood Flyers

The Flyers first competed in the National League Division Two in 1948 when they replaced Wigan Warriors after three matches.

Food City

Food City 500, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Greenfield Stadium

Greenfield Stadium, Bradford, a former rugby league, greyhound racing and speedway stadium in Bradford, England.

Greg Hancock

Greg first came to the United Kingdom at the end of the 1988 speedway season to ride exhibition races with fellow 18 year old Californian Billy Hamill.

Harry Hartz

Hartz was badly burned and injured in a crash in 1927 at the Rockingham Speedway in Salem, New Hampshire, requiring him to spend the next two years in hospitals.

Hellesdon

Hellesdon was the home of the old Firs raceway (home of the Norwich Stars and of Ove Fundin, who was World Speedway Champion on a number of occasions in the early 1960s).

Jack Ormston

John Glaholme 'Jack' Ormston (born 30 October 1909 in West Cornforth - died 22 June 2007) was a Speedway rider who finished runner-up in the Star Riders' Championship in 1935, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship.

Jarosław Hampel

He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, although he first started racing on a mini-track in Pawłowice, close to the city of Leszno.

Johnny Aitken

Outside of his participation at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Aitken is known to have started at least 33 AAA-sanctioned races, from 1907 to 1916, and to have driven relief in at least three others.

Johnny Unser

In 1997 he made his first start in the Indy 500 starting in the 35th position after league and speedway owner Tony George added his and Lyn St. James' car to the field because slower cars than theirs were guaranteed starting positions because of prior races.

Jonas Raun

Jonas Lorenzen Raun (born 22 August 1989 in Haderslev, Denmark) is an internationalspeedway racer, formerly with the Belle Vue Aces in the British Elite League.

Kyle Legault

He began his British speedway career in 2005, with Premier League team the Sheffield Tigers where he recorded a 5.80 average in his first season.

Laguta

Grigory Laguta (born 1984), Russian-born Latvian motorcycle speedway rider

Landon Cassill

He was one of 16 drivers that participated in the three-stage evaluation process that took place at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, North Carolina, North Georgia Speedway in Chatsworth, Georgia, and Nashville Superspeedway.

LifeLock 400

Quicken Loans 400 or LifeLock 400 (June, 2008-2009), at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan

Luboš Tomíček

Luboš Tomíček, Sr. (1934-1968), former Czechoslovakian speedway rider in 1961 Speedway World Team Cup

Macon Speedway

Drivers including Gary Webb, Scott Bloomquist, Ken Schrader and Billy Moyer have won big-purse races hosted by the Macon Speedway.

Madison International Speedway

The Madison International Speedway (MIS) is a stock car racing oval in the town of Rutland in rural Oregon, Wisconsin (near Madison) a short distance off of Wisconsin Highway 138.

North American Under 21 World Qualifier

The North American Under 21 World Qualifier (usually referred to as the U.S. Under 21 Championship) is an annual speedway event held each year to qualify for a spot in the Qualifying Round of the World Under 21 Championships since 2003.

Norwich Stars

Speedway racing was staged in Norwich both before and after World War II at The Firs Stadium in Aylsham Road, Hellesdon.

Once a Jolly Swagman

It is centred on the sport of speedway racing, which was at its peak of popularity at the time.

Phil Crump

Until Jason's final Speedway Grand Prix season in 2012, Crumpy was the senior member of his son's support team, and is a highly regarded engine tuner like his father in law (and long time Team Manager of the Australian Speedway Team), the late Neil Street (1931-2011).

Reginald Wilson

Reg Wilson (born 1948), English speedway team manager and former professional rider

Ron Barfield, Jr.

He now runs a racing shop in Timmonsville, SC and Dillon Motor Speedway, a new 4/10 mile asphalt race track in Dillon, SC.

Sam Ermolenko

Guy Allen 'Sudden Sam' Ermolenko (born November 23, 1960 Maywood, California) is a former speedway rider.

Sandy Reed

Sandy Reed (died February 5, 2004) was a track announcer with Ascot Park in Gardena, California, and the Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.

Smoke a Little Smoke

The video includes Church driving vintage cars at Clarksville Speedway, and includes a cameo from NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne.

Somerset Rebels

The Somerset management looked for a more solid line up given the greater emphasis on away wins and he was replaced by Jason Doyle who had spent the previous season at Elite League team Poole.

Sophie Blake

Blake used to work for Sky Sports presenting speedway, she stood down from this role at the end of the 2007 season.

Speedway Helmet Race

The Speedway Helmet Race was an automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, during each of the three race weekends of 1910 (the last year prior to the first Indianapolis 500).

Steve Arpin

Arpin made his racing debut in Go-Karts at Riverside Speedway in Rainy River, Ontario at the age of 10.

Tiny Lund

In 1968, Lund appeared as one of the race drivers in the racing scene of the MGM movie 'Speedway' which starred Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra.

Yaldhurst Museum

The Yaldhurst Museum is located in the suburb of Yaldhurst, Christchurch, New Zealand, close to Christchurch International Airport, Riccarton Race Course and Ruapuna Speedway.


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