FLORIDA (USA)
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DAYTONA SPEEDWAY
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1953 - DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY IS BORN
By 1953 Bill France Senior decided it was time to build a modern speedway complex that would cater for the ever increasing speeds and large crowds that wanted to watch American Stock Car Racing.
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1954 - JOHNNY ROBERTS
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1954 - Johnny Roberts on the sand at Daytona Beach. Photo: Brian Tidball collection.
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1955 - DAYTONA BEACH ROAD CIRCUIT
France began construction of the new 2.5mile Super Speedway in 1956 while the street and beach circuit continued to hold events.
1960 DAYTONA BEACH CIRCUIT LOCATION
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1958 DAYTONA SPEEDWEEK
With the closure of the Daytona Beach road circuit in 1958 and the opening of Daytona Speedway in 1959, racing in the form of distance and speed records over the standing quarter mile did continue on the beach only until 1961.
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Photo's: unknown.
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1958 - DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY OPENS
With the closure of the road and beach circuit Daytona International opened on the 23rd of Febuary 1958, with the running of the first Daytona 500 on the 22nd of Febuary 1959, this was won by Lee Petty in an Oldsmobile from Johnny Beauchamp and Charley Griffith in third, the race distance was two hundred laps.
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1967 - DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL 24 HOUR RACE
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DAYTONA 500 HONOUR BOARD
195922nd January 1959200 laps |
1st Lee Petty2nd Johnny Beauchamp3rd Charley Griffith |
Oldsmobile?? |
196024th Febuary 1960200 laps |
1st Junior Johnson?? |
Chevrolet?? |