||


  *Comments on Berlin Raceway:*
  View the most recent comment <#5> | Post a comment <#post>


  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.22.2011 - 2:50 am
   Rate this comment:      (0)      (0)

This track is called Berlin Raceway because the town it was built in was
originally called Berlin. Berlin, MI changed it's name to Marne, MI
during the massive anti-German sentiment that occured in the USA during
World War I...ironically the Berlin track wasn't built in 1950 but still
used the old name.

Berlin was the stopping grounds of NASCAR champion Johnny Benson Jr.
before he hit it big. Tim Steele and Bob Senneker are other stock car
champion graduates of the track.


  2.   RacingDude00 posted:
  07.19.2020 - 11:05 pm
   Rate this comment:      (0)      (0)

Anyone know if this track is still hosting the ARCA East cars this
coming weekend


  3.   rm posted:
  09.08.2020 - 9:38 pm
   Rate this comment:      (0)      (0)

The East race was officially cancelled for this year, though they're
supposedly working towards bringing an ARCA race back to the track in
2021. A shame, personally I have tried to go to Berlin three times now
yet the races wound up being postponed (or cancelled, in this case) each
time.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.21.2020 - 6:52 am
   Rate this comment:      (0)      (0)

The late, great Bud Lindemann, of "Car and Track" fame, worked here as
an announcer before in the early 1960s before his television career took
off. He was an announcer at a couple of Michigan short tracks.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  02.03.2021 - 9:50 am
   Rate this comment:      (0)      (0)

An ASA TV broadcast here in August 1995 called the crowd here "one of
the most partisan crowds in all of motorsports" at the time. Why?
Because local hero Johnny Benson, Jr. came over from the NASCAR Busch
Series to play ringer with his old compatriots in ASA that night and
scored his final victory in the series later that evening to the roars
of the fans. The NASCAR Busch title-bound Benson bested ASA favorite
Scott Hansen and fellow Michigander Dave Sensiba, the night's
polesitter, to get the win. Benson made just three ASA starts in 1995
but the last two at his hometrack Berlin both ended in victories. He
never raced in ASA again afterward.


------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Post a comment:*
Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved
by the moderator.

Name:

Comment: