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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.14.2010 - 3:51 pm
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On July 18, 1958, Richard Petty made the first of 1,058 starts in NASCAR
Grand National (now Sprint Cup) competition in a race at the stadium.
0.333-mile paved oval (until 1966)
1.748 mile street circuit (1986-present)
Oval track closed in 1966; stadium closed in 1989; demolished in 1999;
now the site of BMO Field. Parking lot and surrounding roads form street
circuit used since 1986 for CART, Champ Car, and now IRL races. NASCAR
Canadian Tire Series currently races on this circuit.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.14.2010 - 6:21 pm
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This stadium, located almost right on the Lake Ontario waterfront, was
once the original home of Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays and
was the home of the CFL's Toronto Argonauts from 1959 to 1988. Both
teams moved to the SkyDome (now called Rogers Centre) after the new
stadium was built in 1989.

BMO Field that now occupies the site is the home of Toronto F.C., the
city's Major League Soccer team.


  3.   Beau posted:
  11.09.2010 - 6:12 pm
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The venue was actually named Canadian Exhibition Stadium.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.02.2012 - 5:07 pm
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The Exhibition Place street circuit used by CART and now IndyCar races
right past the former site of this stadium.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.09.2015 - 11:10 am
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Nicknamed after its demise as the "Mistake by the Lake."

Neither of the Canadian tracks the Cup series visited in the 1950s is
still in existence.


  6.   Andy U posted:
  12.14.2018 - 10:36 pm
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You can see the track in this 1957-60 Toronto Planning Commission map.

http://jpeg2000.eloquent-systems.com/toronto.html?image=s0727/s0727_fl0008_it0006d.jp2

It is near the soccer stadium, airport, and lake/


  7.   Andy U posted:
  12.14.2018 - 10:47 pm
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Bam:

http://jpeg2000.eloquent-systems.com/toronto.html?image=ser12/s0012_fl1956_it0186.jp2


  8.   Canadianfan posted:
  12.15.2018 - 7:38 am
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http://www.canadianracer.com/cne.asp

Everything you've ever wanted to know about this particular race track.
Including a few photos.


  9.   MasonShell24 posted:
  11.14.2019 - 2:22 pm
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This track isn't listed in the "tracks" tab.


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