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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.15.2010 - 12:50 pm
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The Dayton Speedway is a race track in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It
has been called the "Fastest 1/2 mile (plus 210 feet) in the world".

The track has held events for NASCAR, AAA, MARC, ARCA, ASA, USAC, etc.

The track was opened in June 1934 as a flat "D shaped" 5/8 mile dirt
track. The original track was a "copy" of the ASCOT Speedway.

By 1986 the track, was rusted and forgotten. Track is now a Landfill.

A Website has been created to revive the Speedway.
http://wthompson4.sports.officelive.com/default.aspx


  2.   Timberwolf Frenzel posted:
  01.02.2012 - 5:34 pm
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Dayton was the greatest track ever to exist.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.05.2018 - 10:06 pm
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This track hosted the first-ever NASCAR Grand National/Cup race on a
fully paved oval track back in 1950. Jimmy Florian won in a Ford and it
was the first of many NASCAR Cup victories for the Blue Oval brand.


  4.   OreiusCentaur posted:
  02.15.2018 - 5:00 pm
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This track also hosted the first-ever ARCA Racing Series event way back
in 1953, an event won by Buckie Sager.

Results of the race, as well as many other ARCA races that this site is
missing, can be found here.

https://sites.google.com/site/hscrrarchive/arca-1/1953-marc-season/1953-marc-01


  5.   rm posted:
  10.04.2018 - 12:04 am
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Dayton was a high banked half mile that was built to be a clone to
Salem, mostly, as well as Winchester. It was best known for its 500 lap
Dayton 500 ARCA races. The name, as should be pointed out, predates the
Daytona 500 by several years.

Reportedly the steepness of the banks was achieved by burying trolley
cars in the turns.


  6.   Andy U posted:
  12.09.2018 - 8:13 am
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Good photos of action at the track.
https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/sports/through-the-years-dayton-speedway/jpr9o5jmxpHLV9oZtNoq7J/#6jwLUxqJTCCh6FcPBnYQWw

Seems to be on the site of Rauch Trucking. Might be able to make out the
banking of the turns on the north side.


USGS Miamisburg OH map, 1955 shows it plain as day.


  7.   A posted:
  09.24.2019 - 10:37 pm
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For such a large track, all evidence of it sure was obliterated. This
must be the most desirable area, as within a mile or so of the former
track there are two prisons, two landfills and a sewage plant.


  8.   TTaylor944 posted:
  09.25.2019 - 8:16 am
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The track is probably still there, actually. When racing ceased for good
they just started dumping trash in the infield and slowly filling it up.
Over time it became a full blown landfill, but from what people I know
that live in the area tell me the track was never actually torn down.
It's just under 20 feet of trash.


  9.   Noah posted:
  02.02.2020 - 3:49 pm
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Its unknown if the track still exists or not.

After it closed it was used as a dumping sight,and eventually became a
landfill.

Sometime in the 90s or early 2000s though the site was filled with
clay,flattening out the land.

It might still be there,just under clay and trash,but some rumors also
say when it was filled with clay it was demolished.


  10.   rm posted:
  11.01.2020 - 7:25 am
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While always listed as a half-mile, the track was technically .540 miles
in length.

Hosted a 600-lap MARC race (now known as ARCA) in September 1962, won by
series legend Iggy Katona with a margin of victory of 6 laps over
runner-up Jack Farris. The race was speculated at the time to be the
longest-ever scheduled at a half-mile track. That may not be true
overall, given the popularity of enduro races at many a short track, but
it is almost certainly true when it comes to nationally-touring stock
car series - The Third Turn cites it as the race with the highest lap
count in its records. The plan even called for all drivers entered to
start, a number variously reported as 40, 42 or 45 cars. Shockingly, the
race saw just two cautions, going green all the way up to lap 423!

The race was marred by a late crash involving Dudley Stacy and Ken Toole
in which the drivers collided off of turn 4 and spun down into the pit
lane, smashing into the cars of Jack Bowsher and Ken Reeder that were
receiving service. Three crew members as well as Reeder were injured by
the accident, one of them so severely that one of the mechanic's legs
had to be amputated at the hospital. Reeder escaped with injuries to his
chest and legs.


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