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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.25.2010 - 6:46 pm
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Host of one of the most unusual races in NASCAR history in 1954. Run on
a temporary two-mile road course made up of airport runways, it
remained(until Toyota) the only race in NASCAR's premier series which
allowed foreign cars to compete. In fact, nearly half of the 43-car
field were sports cars, including the winner -- a Jaguar, driven by Al
Keller.

The road course was a temporary 2 Mile raceway located on the Linden
Municipal Airport. Auto racing was discontinued in 1955. The airport was
an integral place during World War II as it built military aircraft.


  2.   Aldo posted:
  02.27.2014 - 12:02 pm
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Half of the airport is now shopping mall.


  3.   Aldo posted:
  08.19.2015 - 6:51 am
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I think there was at least one more "international" race back in the '50's


  4.   Tylor Thaber posted:
  08.19.2015 - 8:45 am
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@3 Correct, Langhorne 1953 was an international race, and a big one at
that. I do believe there was one more, but I don't recall what it was.
Only one international car madw that last one, if my memory is correct.


  5.   Alex posted:
  08.19.2015 - 10:27 am
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There were international races at Linden, multiple at Langhorne,
multiple at Bowman-Gray Stadium, and the inaugural race at Riverside.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.09.2017 - 12:41 am
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Major competition returned to this airport in 2010 when it hosted a
round of the Red Bull Air Race.


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