GEORGIA (USA)
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1949 - PEACH BOWL SPEEDWAY
Peach Bowl Speedway was built by Roy Shoemaker in 1949, The 1/4 mile dirt oval track was suited perfectly to midget racing and was well supported by competitors and spectators.
Sometime into the 1950's Bill France leased the track and introduced Stock Car racing to the 1/4 mile oval, The sedans ran quite successfully, so much so that the track was paved and thats when things really took off.
During the 1950's Stock Cars and Sportsman's dominated the program and by the 1960's it was Jalopies and Supermodifieds.
Shoemaker died of a stroke in November of 1971 and the race track was closed that year, Later to be sold off and demolished.