La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway
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| Location | Town of Hamilton, near West Salem, Wisconsin, United States |
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| Date opened | 1957 |
| Race type | 5/8 mile (outer), 1/4 mile (inner) |
| Course type | Asphalt |
| Notable races |
ASA Midwest Tour ASA Late Model Series |
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The La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is a semi-banked asphalt oval racetrack in West Salem, Wisconsin. The outer track is 5/8 mile and the inner track is a 1/4 mile. The track was built on at the fairgrounds for La Crosse County. It used to host an event on the American Speed Association (ASA) before the demise of the series. It currently hosts annual touring events on the ARCA Midwest Tour, , and the ASA Late Model Series. It hosts weekly which are sanctioned by NASCAR's Whelen All-American Series. It was the first NASCAR-sanctioned race track in Wisconsin.
The track opened as a half mile dirt track in 1957 in West Salem, Wisconsin as part of the relocation of the La Crosse Interstate Fairgrounds from the site of Veterans' Memorial Stadium on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus. It originally ran a single annual International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) event and it was known as the La Crosse Inter-State Fairgrounds. The event featured IMCA "Big Car" (now known as sprint cars), midgets, and "New Model" (similar to stock cars raced by USAC cars and NASCAR's Grand National series [now Sprint Cup Series]). The event ran until 1966, and numerous notable drivers competed in these events including: Johnny Beauchamp, Jim Hurtubise, Dick Hutcherson, Ramo Stott, Parnelli Jones, Johnny Rutherford, and Tom Bigelow.
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