Americans have raced on more than 6,000 racetracks, road courses and drag strips, at home and abroad, since an American Duryea and a German Benz met in the snow in Chicago in 1895. A few more than 1,200 still exist or are still used today. The rest have disappeared under shopping centers, airports and housing developments - or simply into the mists of time.Included here are the best remembered, the most important and the most interesting of those tracks, along with some that are remembered only by local historians. Come along for the ride and rediscover the heritage of automobile racing.
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This review is from: Lost Race Tracks: Treasures of Automobile Racing (Paperback)
Sadly, one of the most important and significant tracks is not mentioned in this book. Namely, Savannah, Georgia, which was the birthplace of the First American Grand Prix (then named Grand Prize) long before Watkins Glen and held the largest international road races in the pioneering days of motorsports with crowds of 150,000 in 1908 to 500,000 by 1911 when both Grand Prize and Vanderbilt Cup races were held. So I felt Savannah should have been highlighted and was disappointed that the very first Grand Prix track in America - truly a "lost track" was missed in a book
that is supposed to restore the lost ones to its readers.
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Another interesting book from Gordon Eliot White, this one covers many of the race tracks of the past which are no longer running auto races. Some I had visited, and others I have never seen, it does give a interesting view in to the past of motorsports.
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