46. FIRSTS: First Oval-Track Auto Race

In 1896, the very first auto race on an oval track took place at the Rhode Island State Fair, just one year after the first city-to-city auto race in the world took place. Cars were so new, no one knew what to call them. Horseless wagons? Motor wagons? Motocycles? Electric Traps?Episode Source Material: Left Turns In The Ocean State | HemmingsScientific American Volume 75The Autocar: A Journal Published in the interests of the mechanically-propelled road carriage1896 Novel RaceMy Home Track - Rhode Island and the late, great Narragansett Park Speedway - NASCAR Talk | NBC SportsBoston Sunday Globe Archives, Sep 19, 1915, p. 15Narragansett Park SpeedwayThe First Automobile Races in America (Upd. Cranston, Rhode Island) - PreWarCarA Look Back On Rhode Island's Narragansett ParkChicago Times-Herald race - WikipediaThe Forgotten Car That Won America's First Auto Race | Smart News | Smithsonian MagazineOval track racing - WikipediaDuryea Motor Wagon Company - WikipediaThe Duryea Motor Wagon: There's a First Time for Everything | 2020Time Lapse: Turrets, tents and hippies -- where, when, what's happening here?History of Auto Racingautomobile racing | BritannicaAndrew L. Riker - WikipediaHistory of the American Automobile - Cole's Collision CenterRacing in AmericaAutomobile History.History of the automobile - WikipediaRace track - WikipediaHorseracing in the US | American Experience | Official Site | PBSFirst asphalt superspeedway track | Guinness World Records(1.366%2D,%2Fh%20(76.26%20mph). Riker Automobiles before they merge into Electric Vehicle Company and Columbia . . . . . .The day electricity led the way in the first American auto race