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La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway
The La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is a semi-banked asphalt oval racetrack in West Salem, Wisconsin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway )〕 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, Mid American Stock Car Series, and the ASA Late Model Series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway FAQ )〕 It hosts weekly stock car races which are sanctioned by NASCAR's Whelen All-American Series.〔 It was the first NASCAR-sanctioned race track in Wisconsin, and the only NASCAR-sanctioned asphalt race track.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway )〕
==Track history==
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" stock cars (similar to stock cars raced by USAC cars and NASCAR's Grand National series (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.〔
The track was paved in 1970 as a half mile, with the track's current banked grandstand being built at the same time.〔 Robert Morris and Larry Wehrs were the promoters for the first two seasons before Wehrs became the sole promoter in 1972. Racing alternated between Friday and Wednesday nights for the first five seasons before permanently running on Wednesday nights in 1975. The Central Wisconsin Racing Association (CWRA) Late Models were the featured division at La Crosse from 1970 until 1991. Following the 1986 season the La Crosse County Agricultural Society, the owners of the racetrack, decided to make a change with the promoter. Instead of renewing with Wehrs, the La Crosse County Ag Society went with Midwest Motorsports Management as the new promoter. Longtime ARTGO Challenge Series president John McKarns and Rockford Speedway president Jody Deery headed up the new promoter group, with Deery's youngest son Chuck named the track manager. In 1989 La Crosse became the first track in Wisconsin to become a part of the NASCAR Winston Racing Series (now the Whelen All-American Series), NASCAR's national weekly short track program. The track would run the NASCAR shows on Saturday nights, which would become the main race night starting in 1992. Four drivers (Kevin Nuttleman, Paul Proksch, Charlie Menard and Steve Carlson) would go on to claim either a regional, divisional or state championship. Carlson would capture the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national championship in 2007, the first for a driver from the state of Wisconsin. Nuttleman would become the first driver in NASCAR Whelen All-American Series history to claim a championship under all three formats (Great Northern Region in 1989, Division III in 2005 and Wisconsin State Championship in 2009), and is one of the 25 greatest drivers in NASCAR Whelen All-American Series history.
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