Ralph DePalma won the AAA sanctioned Syracuse 50 Race on the 1 Mile Dirt Oval New York State Fairgrounds, Syracuse, New York.
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1921
Ira Vail won the AAA sanctioned Syracuse 50 Race on the 1 Mile Dirt Oval New York State Fairgrounds, Syracuse, New York.
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1925
Ralph DePalma won the AAA sanctioned Syracuse 100 Race on the 1 Mile Dirt Oval New York State Fairgrounds, Syracuse, New York. Leon Duray was second followed by Ralph Hepburn, Earl Cooper and Jerry Wonderlich.
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1927
Babe Stapp won the 100 lap AAA sanctioned Charlotte Race 3 on the 1.25 Mile Board Oval Charlotte Speedway, Pineville, North Carolina. Cliff Woodbury was second followed by Dave Evans, Peter DePaolo and Leon Duray.
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1947
Ted Horn , driving the Horn #1, won the 20 lap AAA Eastern Sprint Car race at the Eastern States Expo Speedway in Springfield, MA.
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1948
Myron Fohr won the AAA sanctioned Springfield 100 on the 1 Mile Dirt Oval Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois.
Emil Andres was second followed by Ted Horn, Bill Sheffler and George Connor.
Bill Holland won the AAA Eastern Sprint Car race at the Reading Fairgrounds, Reading, PA.
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1949
Rex Mays drove an Offenhauser powered midget racer 147.037 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats for the U.S. Class E (2-liter, un-blown) record.
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1950
Emory Collins won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson, KS.
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1951
Deb Snyder won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson, KS.
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1953
Bob Slater won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Clay County Fairgrounds, Spencer, IA.
Gene Hartley won the AAA Midget race at the Indianapolis Speedrome, Indianapolis,IN.
Wally Campbell won the AAA Eastern Sprint Car race over Tommy Hinnershitz at the Morristown Speedway, Morristown, NJ.
Charlie Miller won the URC Sprint Car race at the York Fairgrounds,York, PA.
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1954
Al Herman won the AAA Eastern Sprint Car race at the Reading Fairgrounds, Reading, PA.
Jim McWithey won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Muskogee Speedway, Muskogee, OK.
Rex Easton won the 100 lap AAA Midget race at the Illiana Motor Speedway, Schererville,IN. Danny Kladis was second followed by Gene Hartley, Chuck Rodee and Jimmy Bryan.
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1957
Jiggs Peters won the ARDC Midget race at the Eastern States Expo Speedway, Springfield,MA.
Pete Folse won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson,KS.
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1958
Dick Brown won the ARDC Midget race at the Freeport Speedway, Freeport,NY.
Red Amick won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Music City Motorplex (1/2p), Nashville, TN.
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1959
Rodger Ward won the Hoosier Hundred USAC Champ Car race at the 1 Mile Dirt Oval Indiana State Fairgrounds, Indianapolis, Indiana. Eddie Sachs was second followed by A.J. Foyt, Jim McWithey and Len Sutton.
Bert Brooks won the ARDC Midget race at the Reading Fairgrounds, Reading,PA.
Parnelli Jones won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson,KS.
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1962
Pete Folse won the IMCA Sprint Car race at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson,KS.
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1964
Bobby Hogle won the CRA Sprint Car race at the Champion Speedway, San Franciso,CA. Hal Minyard finished second followed by Bruce Walkup, Mike Mosley and Ned Spath.
Gene Brown won the Sprint Car race at the Manzanita Speedway, Phoenix, AZ.
Mel Kenyon won the USAC Midget race at the O'Hare Stadium, Chicago, IL.
Sammy Sessions won the Supermodified race over Nolan Swift and Jim Shampine at the Oswego Speedway, Oswego,NY.
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1965
Bobby Unser won the USAC Sprint Car race at the Baer Field Speedway, Fort Wayne,IN.
Lou Blaney won the Sprint Car race over Frank Gorichky and Hank Jacoby at the Sharon Speedway, Hartford, OH.
Larry Dickson won the ARDC Midget race at the Trenton International Speedway (1.0p), Trenton, NJ.
Ray Tilley won the Super Modified race over Bryan Osgood, Kenny Weld, Leroy Felty and Johnny Crawford at the Williams Grove Speedway, Williams Grove,PA.
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1970
Al Unser won the Sedalia 100 USAC Champ Car race at the 1 Mile Dirt Oval State Fair Speedway, Sedalia, Missouri. Mario Andretti was second followed by Larry Dickson, Mike Mosley and Bentley Warren.
Ken Carberry won the AMSA Stock Car race, Harry Benjamin won the Super Midget Racing Club (SMRC) race and Dan McMahon won the V.W Sprint race at the Flemington Fair Speedway, Flemington, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
John Murphy won the Super Sportsman race over Scott Ausherman, Ron Heissy, Jerry Wolfe and Tim Leiphart at the Silver Spring Speedway, Mechanicsburg, PA.
Steve Smith won the 19th Annual Williams Grove 40-lap Sprint National at the Williams Grove Speedway, Mechanicsburg, PA. Lynn Paxton was second followed by Kenny Jacobs, Brad Doty, Lee Osborne, Jimmy Horton, George Ferguson, Keith Kauffman, Bobby Weaver and Dave Wickham.
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1982
Darrell Waltrip wins the NASCAR Winston Cup CRC Chemicals 500 over Kyle Petty at the Dover International Speedway , Dover, DE.
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1992
Cory McClenathan , in a Top Fuel dragster, ran the 1/4-mile in 4.799 seconds at Reading, Pennsylvania. Becoming the first NHRA driver to run the 1/4-mile in less than 4.8 seconds.
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1993
Rusty Wallace wins the NASCAR Winston Cup SplitFire 500 over Ken Schrader at the Dover International Speedway , Dover, DE.
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1999
Joe Nemechek won the NASCAR Winston Cup Dura Lube/Kmart 300 over Tony Stewart at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH.
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2004
Kurt Busch won the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Sylvania 300 over Matt Kenseth at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH.
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2011
Tony Stewart won the Monday rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Geico 400 over Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski at the Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IL.
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