Selinsgrove Speedway

One of America's Dirt Track Racing Traditions Since 1946: The tradition began July 20, 1946, when Bill Holland, who later went on to win the 1949 Indianapolis 500, won the first race at Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway ... the high-speed half-mile dirt oval designed by the legendary Hollywood stunt man and race car driver Joie Chitwood. Since then, many of motorsports' most famous drivers--from Holland and Red Byron to Jeff Gordon and Steve Kinser--have turned laps at the historic fairgrounds speedway. Today, the track hosts weekly sprint car and stock car racing on Saturday nights from March through September. In 2001, Selinsgrove Raceway Park, the one-fifth mile oval located inside of the fairgrounds' half-mile track, started racing go karts and micro sprint cars on Friday nights during the season.