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Windsor Speedway

Windsor, ON

Status
Closed

Years in Operation: 1935;1946-1954

Name History:


Track Configurations:
1/2 mile dirt oval (1935)
1/3 mile dirt oval (1946-50)
1/4 mile dirt oval (1951-1954)

Notes:
  • Located on South Cameron Blvd
  • Built at a cost of $25,000
  • Original ownere was Joe St. Antoine
  • Opened on July 21, 1935
  • Held car and motorcycle races in 1935
  • Appears to have closed after the 1935 season
  • Re-opened on May 24, 1946 for the first post-war races
  • Owned by Frank Dayus, Stanley Robinson, Gordon Henderson in 1946
  • Track was bought outright by Gord Henderson in early 1947
  • Russel Kulvander was killed in a roll-over on August 6, 1949
  • Originally raced big cars and midgets, then roadsters and finally stock cars starting in 1950
  • The track was shortened to 1/4 in 1951 for the stock cars by adding a new corner on the inside of the track
  • This left the old corner to be used as the pits
  • The reconfig left the track banked in one corner and flat in the other
  • As of 2004 the property has not been developed and a vague remains of the track can be seen
  • The track pavement was only ripped up in around 2002
  • Appears to have closed in June 1953 due to low car count
  • Re-opened in September 1954 for a few events before closing permanently