Is There a Future for Local Tracks?(Motorsports)
AutoWeek, September, 2005
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Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH In 1955 former NASCAR champion Bobby Allison drove his 1938 Chevrolet to Hialeah Speedway, painted some numbers on the door, and went racing. Three weeks later he won. "I've never forgotten Hialeah Speedway," Allison says, "and what it did for me." Plenty of other pro drivers got their start at Hialeah, a flat, little paved oval track just west of Miami.
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Though Bobby Allison, his brother Donnie and friend Red Farmer are known as the founding members of the Alabama Gang, they learned to race at Hialeah Speedway in Florida. On a ...
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