| Track:
Defunct - 1/2
mile
dirt oval, 4/27/68 - 5/6/72 and 1/2 mile paved oval, from 5/20/72
- 1987 |
| Track Location: Located at 9267 Cincinnati-Dayton Rd.,
West Chester, Ohio, the track property was later occupied by the Napier
Truck
Training School, and subsequently leveled in 2009 to make way for
retail development. |
Tri-County
Speedway - aka. Queen
City
Speedway
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| Sanctions: The Tri-County/Queen City
Speedway has
hosted
the following Sanctioning organizations - United States Auto
Club (USAC) National Midgets, United States Auto Club (USAC) National
Sprint Cars, Automobile
Racing Club of America (ARCA), American
Speed Association (ASA), World Wide Auto Racing (WWAR), National
Association of
Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), International Motor Contest
Association, American Midget Racing Association, Great
American Truck Racing, Stock Car Connection. |
| Brief History: Opening on April 27, 1968 as the Tri
County Speedway, a half mile dirt oval in the Old West Chester area of
Butler County, the track hosted numerous USAC Sprint, Stock Car,
Midget, as well as IMCA, ARCA events in its early years. Weekly
divisions included Late Models, Hobby Stocks & Sports Sedans. The
Track and some adjacent land was purchased by Dudley Farrell in 1972, where the track was paved and renamed Queen
City Speeway. USAC contuinued running Sprint on
the 1/2 mile pavement, and also groups like the ASA Stock Cars, ARCA
Stock Cars, IMCA & WWAR
Midgets. |
Track Specifications
(paved track 1972): Length: 2,640
feet (measured 15 ft. inside the outside guardrail); Width: 60 feet;
Banking: 17 1/2 deg. in the turns, 3 deg. on the straightaways;
Straightaway Length: 534.6 feet; Racing surface: Asphalt; Pit Surface:
Asphalt; Double guardrails in the turns (3 ft. high), 5 ft. high steel
reinforced concrete wall on the straightaways; Lighting: 1500 watt
quartz. Seating Capacity: 8,000.
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Television: An uknown number of races were show on TV,
including several ASA races that were televised on the "American Sport
Cavalcade" program on TNN.
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Miscellaneous: On April 26, 1987, the first annual
"Sights of Spring Arts and Craft Show" featuring 100 booths was held at
the Queen City Speedway with proceeds benefiting the Children's
Hospital Medical Center. After the Speedway closed there were also Flea
Markets later held at the track (2001).
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