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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.22.2010 - 3:52 pm
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Was a man made racetrack located on the Montgomery airbase. Listed as a
2 mile racetrack. Track was three straightaways and 3 tight flat turns.
Auto racing was discontinued in 1960. Rex White won the only race held
there. It is no longer called Montgomery Airbase, but Stewart Field.


  2.   Graham Clayton posted:
  01.06.2012 - 6:42 am
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The drivers would top 140 mph on the broad straightaways, going wide
approaching the corners and, braking, head single file into the sharp
turns. Dust clouds billowed over the turns as most drivers ran on the
dirt outside the runways to better attack the acute angles.


  3.   Billy Kingsley posted:
  03.15.2012 - 1:45 am
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It is NOT Stewart. Montgomery Airport is a small regional airport still
in operation, in Montgomery NY. Stewart is an Air Force Base AND
International Airport in Newburgh NY. Totally seperate. If I could swim,
Stewart would be in walking distance for me. Montgomery is about 45
minutes away by car, Stewart 10.


  4.   @Statscrash posted:
  07.19.2018 - 12:51 am
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uh #1 aren't most race tracks man made?


  5.   Andy U posted:
  12.18.2018 - 8:33 am
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1956 Pine Bush map shows triangular airfield called Montgomery Airport
and also "US Reservation" meaning military. There are two triangles
sharing one side, making one big triangle. Not sure which layout would
have been used without measuring.

The one in Newburgh is called Stewart Air Force base on the 1957 map. It
is clearly not in Montgomery (2 map sheets away) and just a few miles
from Newburgh.

OK, here is the real deal. I have consulted the 1956 and 1957 maps of
Newburgh and Montgomery NY. Watching this video I am 100% sure this
track was Montgomery Airbase (now Orange Co Airport). It is NOT Stewart.
I can tell by the layout of the turns in the video plus the building in
the video.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=UMAzO-0uXq0


  6.   Onion posted:
  09.01.2019 - 11:11 am
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This is not a "paved track" as that would mean a paved oval in the
site's system. This track was a rudimentary road course and should
appear as such.


  7.   A posted:
  07.12.2020 - 12:54 pm
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Up until twenty years ago or so the Orange County Airport featured three
runways that were connected. Sometime before 2004 the runways were
reconfigured, but the earlier layout makes it a bit easier to picture a
rudimentary road course.


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