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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.28.2010 - 12:40 pm
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.5 Mile Dirt Oval located in Gardena, California. The race in 1954,
scheduled to run 500 laps, only ran 496 due to a scoring error caused by
inexperience of running long races. At the time it set a record for
NASCAR in laps run in a race, and the scorers were unable to keep
accurate enough numbers. The track then was taken off the schedule after
1954. The Artesia Freeway was then constructed at the site.


  2.   Graham Clayton posted:
  10.26.2013 - 5:26 am
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The only circuit (in 1951) to run three NASCAR races in one season?


  3.   Chriswo29 posted:
  07.07.2017 - 10:15 pm
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The track closed in the early 50's to make room for the Artesia Boulevard.


  4.   Andy U posted:
  12.11.2018 - 1:47 pm
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races were run again at Ascot Park in 1957. It was about a mile from
Carrell location.

This one is tough to place. It shows up at the top of the Torrance CA
map, 1951. Thing is, so much had changed. Maybe looking at some maps
between then and now can help transfer the exact location.

Looks to me like the track is oriented in the 11-5 way. No doubt this is
the track, even the 1951 map calls it Carrell Speedway.

Bordered
South by 177 St
west by Normandie Ave
East by Vermont Ave
North by just over Artesia Blvd.

The middle of the school track just south points directly into the first
turn.
I think Artesia replaced 174th St and that would have cut off the 3/4
turns.


  5.   A posted:
  09.24.2019 - 8:25 pm
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An historic aerials view from 1952 shows the track very clearly. It was
oriented slightly SE to NW, and looking at modern satellite views,
covered the area more or less from the Gardena-Carson Family YMCA to the
Food 4 Less across Artesia to the NW.

The north end of the oval was still quite discernible in 1963, but
nothing at all appeared to be left by 1972. What was the far north end
of the oval, turns three and four, is now in the Gardena Willows Wetland
Preserve which appears to have a trail where one could actually walk by
the area where the far north end of the track was.


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