Pocono Raceway (NASCAR Library Collection) by Gene A. Card

By Gene A. Card

The framework for the production of Pocono Raceway started within the overdue Nineteen Fifties, whilst a bunch of traders shaped Racing integrated. In 1962, a spinach farm close to lengthy Pond, Pennsylvania, used to be selected because the web site for the multifaceted racing complicated. building at the tune begun in 1965, yet growth moved very slowly. The three-quarter-mile oval element of the power was once accomplished in 1968, however it was once now not till 1971 that the two-and-a-half-mile superspeedway was once prepared for festival. From its humble beginnings, Pocono Raceway has grown to draw nice numbers of enthusiastic spectators to either one of its NASCAR� occasions each one year.

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