The Lonsdale Sports Arena in Cumberland, Rhode Island, hosted the first sanctioned stock car race outside the South in 1947. Fonty Flock won the national championship race at the arena, witnessed by ...
He explained that sprint car racing conditions drivers to operate with the car pitched sideways for extended periods. That ...
CUMBERLAND – What is now a shopping plaza that includes a Stop & Shop and a McDonald's holds a noted place in American auto racing history: It is the site of the first sanctioned stock car race in the ...