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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.27.2010 - 8:16 pm
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Marchbanks Speedway was a racetrack located in San Joaquin Valley near
Hanford, California. It hosted open-wheel and NASCAR cars, as well as
motorcycle racing, in the 1950s and 1960s.

It was originally built by local farmer B. L. Marchbanks, and named
after himself. The track began as a half mile dirt track. It was later
paved as a 1.4-mile, high-banked racetrack also hosted speed runs for
watercraft in an infield lake, much as Lake Lloyd at the Daytona
International Speedway does today.

Three NASCAR races where held at the track. The first race was held on
the dirt track in 1951. Danny Weinberg won his only NASCAR race. Marvin
Porter won the race on the 1.4-mile paved course in 1960. The NASCAR
race record was set March 12, 1961, when Fireball Roberts led all 178
laps of a 250-mile race, hosted at the track. He finished two laps ahead
of the second place driver.

Turn One was very highly banked(25 degrees), and there was a triangular
dogleg on the opposite side of the grandstand.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.30.2011 - 11:40 am
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This track was expanded and rebuilt into the triangular 1.5-mile
"Hanford Motor Speedway" in 1967 to host USAC Champ Car races.

Hanford was the first Superspeedway built west of the Mississippi River
but was shortlived, it closed in 1969 and the track was bulldozed into
the ground in 1984.


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