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1 dzień temu · Map Named race Season Notes Air Base Speedway: 0.500-mile dirt oval 0.250-mile dirt oval South Carolina ... Montgomery Air Base: 2.000-mile (3.219 km) paved road course New York Empire State 200 (1960) 1960 Temporary airport course. ... 0.500-mile dirt oval Ohio 1953 Closed in 1959; smaller tracks used same site until 1965. ...
1 dzień temu · The biggest factor driving airlines to relocate their operations from Midway to O'Hare was the jet airliner; the first scheduled jet at O'Hare was an American 707 from New York to Chicago to San Francisco on March 22, 1959. One-mile-square (2.6-kilometer-square) Midway had no space for the runways that 707s and DC-8s required.
