Washington State auto racing now has a place to call home on the internet. Whether you’re a driver, owner, crew or fan, www.washingtonautoracing.com is where you need to be for all the action.

www.WashingtonAutoRacing.com is a free community based social networking website for auto racers and their fans. Members build their own racing profile webpage, share photos, videos, news, forums, blogs and join groups about their racing experiences. Members may also link to other websites they have as well as those of their sponsors. One could call this the MySpace or Facebook for auto racing in Washington.

WashingtonAutoRacing.com is open to all styles of auto racing. Groups have been formed for: Asphalt Oval, Dirt Oval, Drag Racing and Road Course. As the community grows, more groups will be added.

This web community offers many key features for its members as well as those just visiting. The home page offers a wide variety of the latest members, photos, videos and discussion topics. The members profile page is a star feature. One has the option to build his or her profile page using a number of different templates or styles. The number of pictures and videos one may upload and display is unlimited.

The forums and blog sections gives the WashingtonAutoRacing.com members the opportunity to teach and learn from one another we well as make new fellow racer friends, fans and in many cases, a mentor. The track locator provides information and links to all racetracks in the state of Washington. As WashingtonAutoRacing.com continues to grow, other features will be launched.

Check out the WashingtonAutoRacing.com community now for a full, feature-rich experience for auto racers and their fans. Joining is fast and easy and will never cost a dime. No experience is needed to build your webpage either. Just fill in the blanks, add some photos and/ or videos of you and your car and your done! You then have a webpage of your very own to gain valuable exposure to the world about you and your race car!

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Does auto racing contribute much to the development of commercial vehicles? And do you know of any examples of any new developments/innovations, that have come from auto racing; which have been incorporated into new generations of commercial vehicles?

The Islip Motor Speedway, which opened in 1947 and closed its doors in 1984 was a popular local auto-racing track and is remembered fondly for being the source of some great auto racing trivia.

The shortest track on record ever driven on by the top dogs of NASCAR was the .20 [2/10 mile] oval track at Islip Speedway in Islip, New York.

Islip Speedway is also the home of the first ever Demolition Derby. In 1958, owner Larry Mendelsohn promoted the first recorded Demolition Derby, making the Islip Speedway, “the Birthplace of the Demolition Derby”.

NASCAR – Grand National Events where held at Islip Speedway from June 1964 to July 1971, except for the years 1969 and 1970.

Some of the NASCAR Grand National Highlights at Islip Speedway where as follows:

Billy Wade was NASCAR Rookie of the Year in 1963. He won only four [4] races in his career. His four [4] consecutive victories came in 9 days from July 10 to July 19, 1964, one of which was won at Islip Speedway while driving for Bud Moore. Billy Wade died while testing tires in Daytona, Florida.

Richard Petty’s 1967 season was and will be the most dominant season ever run. The season earned him the title “The King.” 27 wins in 49 races.

Richard Petty’s 1971 victory marked the last NASCAR Grand National event held at the Islip Speedway.

In 1966, Bobby Allison brings home the 2nd of his 84 career wins and the 11th of 84 in 1968.

Islip Speedway became a casualty of NASCAR’s march of progress. In 1972, NASCAR entered the modern era with 31 races. Winston became the major sponsor and demanded that all races fewer than 250 miles in length dropped. With the loss of NASCAR events, Islip lost its drawing card.

Demolition Derby – As mentioned above, Islip Speedway is known as the “Birthplace of Demolition Derby”.

The only real qualification needed to participate in a Demo Derby is a valid driver’s license.

The cars used are generally rust buckets, gleaned from salvage yards, salvage auctions, repair station back lots, people’s backyards, and country fields and barns. Most are American made sedans and hardtops, or station wagons.

The old cars prepped by removing all glass except the windshields, grilles, headlights, rear seats, and side-view mirrors, have their standard gas tanks removed and usually replaced with a 5-gallon plastic container mounted securely in the area of the extricated back seat. This is for obvious safety reasons. Likewise, the car battery mounted by the front driver’s seat is so instead of in the engine compartment where batteries are usually located.

To win a Demolition Derby usually means you have the last car running under its own power.

In its hay-day, Demo Derbies played on television on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” and even raced at the Old Polo Grounds in New York.

As happened to many old local auto-racing tracks, Islip Speedway went the way of the wrecking ball and the property turned into a shopping mall.

Poloi asked:


I just signed up for Yahoo Fantasy Golf and Auto Racing. How does this work? I picked my team for the Auto Racing and Golf. Do I get points based upon their results in real-life races/golf tournaments or are the races/golf tournaments simulated and have their own winners? Is it like a pick-em for each real-life race/tournament to see who does best? I don’t get this!

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Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, motor racing or car racing) is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world’s most watched television sports.

History

The beginning of racing

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful petrol-fueled automobiles before that time people raced in other vehicles such as horse-drawn buggies. The first race ever organized was on April 28, 1887 by , by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier. It ran 2 kilometers from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne. It was won by Georges Bouton, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather pointless to call it a race. On July 22 1894, the first real contest was organized by Paris magazine Le Petit Journal, as a reliability test. The Comte de Dion was first to arrive in Rouen on his steam car, but a Panhard et Levassor was judged to be the winner.

In 1895, the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris Rally was held and this was the first real race as all competitors started together. The winner was Émile Levassor in his Panhard-Levassor 1205 cc model. He completed the course in 48 hours and 47 minutes, finishing nearly six hours before the runner-up.

The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March 1897 as a “Speed Week.” To fill out the schedule, most types of racing event were invented here, including the first hill climb (Nice – La Turbie) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

An international competition, between nations rather than individuals, began with the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing.

The first auto race in the United States took place in Chicago, Illinois. The course went from the South side of the city, North along the lakefront to Evanston, Illinois and back again on November 28, 1895 over an 54.36 mile(87.48 km) course, with Frank Duryea winning in 10 hours and 23 minutes, beating three petrol-fueled and two electric cars.

City to city racing

With auto construction and racing dominated by France, the French automobile club ACF staged a number of major international races, usually from or to Paris, connecting with another major city in Europe or France.

These very successful races ended in 1903 when Marcel Renault was involved in a fatal accident near Angouleme in the Paris-Madrid race. Nine fatalities caused the French government to stop the race in Bordeaux and ban open-road racing.

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