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  1.   Anonymous posted:
  03.04.2015 - 11:00 am
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Famous race track that was one of the most important tracks on the old
IMCA Stock Car tour in the 50s.


  2.   AnonymousEFR posted:
  03.04.2015 - 11:00 am
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Opened 1902, closed 2002.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.27.2016 - 8:26 pm
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During its ASA days the Midwest stock car series was the ONLY ones who
used this track. The track was only used for a single race each year
during the fair.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.28.2016 - 10:06 pm
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This track, and its long tradition of hosting an annual ASA race, died
off suddenly when a change in direction by the Fair Board to enlarge and
improve the property's grandstand for concert use required the closure
and eventual demolition of the track. The decision came three months
after the last race with no warning so no one knew the 2002 race would
be its last. Today the track is gone and most of the area where it once
stood has been redeveloped for parking lot use. For a while even after
the grandstand expansion the backstretch and turns 3 and 4 remained
largely intact but they too are gone now.

The winner of every race here got to ring the victory belle, a big brass
locomotive-style bell hooked to a trophy engraved with the names of all
this race's winners.

The Minnesota State Fair is the second-most attended state fair in the
United States. Each year an episode of "A Prairie Home Companion" is
taped live at the grandstand area.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.28.2020 - 10:46 am
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The ASA races in the later years here were traditionally run on Labor
Day as a one-day Monday show. Because of this compressed nature and
weekday scheduling the organizers were sometimes able to recruit higher
level NASCAR talent to be in the race such as Dick Trickle or Ken
Schrader. Mark Martin made a rare ASA appearance in 1996. The visiting
Trickle won the race back-to-back in 1991 and 1992.


  6.   JSPorts posted:
  04.28.2020 - 11:02 am
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I wish NASCAR would still run the Southern 500 on Labor Day.


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.22.2020 - 2:44 pm
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This track started out life as a one-mile long dirt horse racing track
that was covered over for cars. The original mile-long layout lasted
until 1939 before it was shortened down to a half-mile for 1940. Racing
was paused for World War II and once it resumed stock cars slowly
replaced open wheel races as its main events. The track was paved in
1964 and remained in that configuration until its demise.


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