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Dells Raceway Park

Dells Raceway Park (DRP), formerly known as the Dells Motor Speedway, is a car racing raceway located in the town of Lyndon, in Juneau County, north of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin just off of U.S. Route 12/Wisconsin Highway 16.


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1990s in Japan

A NASCAR exhibition race was held in Motegi, Japan during the late 1990s in the hopes of getting people interested in stock car racing.

Adrian Quaife-Hobbs

Adrian Rodney Quaife-Hobbs (born 3 February 1991 in Pembury) is a British race car driver, notable for being the youngest driver to win the T Cars championship and the youngest ever winner of a MSA-sanctioned car racing series.

Alexander Kolowrat

After he had met Charles Pathé in Paris in 1909, he got into cinematography, besides his interests in motorcycle and car racing, aviation and ballooning.

Alisha Abdullah

Alisha then moved on to formula car racing and managed to come fifth in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship, 2004.

ARDC

American Racing Drivers Club, a midget car racing sanctioning body in the East Coast of the United States

Aycliffe Stadium

However, photographs from 1955 of a driver's presentation evening at the North Briton Pub (in Aycliffe Village) suggest that stock car racing had already taken place at Aycliffe in 1955.

BRCA

British Radio Car Association, an organisation governing all types of radio controlled car racing in the United Kingdom.

Bremerton National Airport

This was Ferrari’s debut on a Northwest track at a time when the company was just starting to dominate west coast sports car racing.

Bruce McLaren

McLaren cars totally dominated CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins, a considerable number of them with him behind the wheel, between 1967 and 1972 (and five constructors’ championships), and have won three Indianapolis 500 races, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring.

Ed Samples

Samples raced at tracks such as Lakewood Speedway in the early, pre-World War II era of stock car racing; in the track's 1941 Labor Day event he battled for the lead before crashing out of the race.

Fireball 500

Stock car racing had already been the subject of Red Line 7000 but this movie would be specifically told from the teenagers point of view.

Giampiero Simoni

Giampiero Simoni (born 12 September 1969 in Porto San Giorgio) is an Italian former racing driver who made his name in Touring Car racing.

Heath Pearce

He has partnered with Matt Young as a co-owner in a professional sports car racing venture, Matt Young Motorsports with Heath Pearce.

International Open

International GT Open, a grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización.

Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw

Laidlaw regularly competes in historic car racing around the world with his Porsche 904GTS, Porsche 904/6, Maserati 250S & Maserati 6CM.

Janusz Waluś

However he did have some sporting success of his own in car racing even winning the national rally championship in the Fiat 127 class.

Johnny Rutherford

Rutherford, whom has been invited to The White House on behalf of Indy on multiple occasions, is considered a popular ambassador and spokesman for the sport of Indy car racing.

Kwun Tong Ferry Pier

The 1999 film The Legend of Speed by Andrew Lau, featuring Ekin Cheng and Cecilia Cheung, used the pier as the location for the starting/ending point for the car racing scenes.

Louise Piëch

When her son Ferdinand was in charge of Porsche's sports car racing program in the late 1960s, a second works team was set up, called Porsche Salzburg.

Lowood, Queensland

After the war the airfield was converted into the Lowood Airfield Circuit and ran as a car racing circuit for 20 years, the highlight hosting the 1960 Australian Grand Prix.

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.

Mike Chase

In addition to his racing career, in the early 1990s Chase worked as the head of stock car racing for A. J. Foyt Enterprises; he planned to attempt to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 on two occasions with the team, but was not approved by USAC for competition.

Occoneechee Speedway

The Occoneechee Speedway hosted stock car racing legends such as Fireball Roberts, Richard Petty, Ned Jarrett and Junior Johnson.

Peter McLeod

McLeod began his racing career in 1980 at the relatively old age of 32, progressing immediately into touring car racing where in just three seasons to become one of Australia's fastest privately entered touring car racers, and usually had the fastest Mazda RX-7's behind Allan Moffat's factory supported team (though with reportedly more horsepower than Moffat's cars).

Robert Barker

Bootie Barker (born 1971), crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car racing series

Stephen W. Wood

Acting/theater/performing experience includes an 'extra' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads (May 2007); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (September 2007); an 'extra' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising (November 2007); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, (August 2008);

Superstars V8 Racing

Superstars V8 Racing is a car racing video game based on the 2008 season of the Italy-based Superstars Series and available for the arcade on 17 April 2009 and ported to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows on 26 June 2009.

The Furious and the Fast

Christopher invites them all to the big race at Texas Motor Speedway which will feature his methane car racing against oil powered cars.

Theodor Weissenberger

Major Theodor Weissenberger (born 21 December 1914 in Mühlheim am Main, Grand Duchy of Hesse, killed in a car racing accident 10 June 1950 on the Nürburgring) was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1936 until the end of World War II in 1945.

Tim Schrick

Schrick has made a number of starts in the 24 Hours Nürburgring endurance event as well as several other car racing championships such as the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup.

Toyota Motorsport GmbH

In the meantime, they entered sports car racing and the 24 Hours of Le Mans: in 1998 and 1999, finishing 2nd in 1999 with the Toyota GT-One.

Turner Motorsport

Turner Motorsport also runs a production car racing team located in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and is the second most successful BMW privateer racing team in the world, second only to Schnitzer Motorsport, who run factory BMW DTM cars in Europe.