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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.03.2013 - 10:38 am
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The Des Moines Street Course was set up mainly for SCCA Trans-Am racing.
The urban Iowa track was a scenic one downtown and rather uniquely it
included two bridge crossings of the Des Moines River (only other street
course I can think of with that would be the IMSA one they used to do in
Columbus, Ohio).

Trans-Am ran the Des Moines circuit from 1989 through 1994. The final
1994 event was probably hindered by the fact that the infamous Midwest
floods of 1993 washed out the main Trans-Am race the prior year, hurting
interest for following races.

Trans-Am had a habit of doing street races in rather unusual cities
without a higher series supporting them. Other locations they ran
included Grand Rapids, Michigan, Reno, Nevada, Niagara Falls, New York
and a couple different ones in the Dallas, Texas area including one at
Addison Airport.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.06.2018 - 3:57 pm
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Correcting myself from four years in the past, SCCA Trans-Am did have a
race in Niagara Falls (specifically it was in 1988) but it was in
Ontario on the Canadian side of the Niagara River.


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