Originally Posted by rt9906:
They actually had a 1 Mile(!) board track in Charlotte in the 20's. I saw it in a book about Charlotte at the bookstore....cant remember what it was called....
That was actually a 1.25 mile board track. It was known as the Charlotte Speedway and operated from 1924 - 1927. Most board tracks were a mile or more in length. They were way too fast for the technology available at the time. If you know what a 1920's Indy car looked like just imagine one turning a lap of 138.6 mph on a 1.25 oval. That is exactly what Leon Duray did at the Altoona, Pa. board track in 1926!