Windsor Speedway
Windsor, ON

Status:
Closed

Years:
1935
1946-1954

Name History:

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

Track Info:

• 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