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 | Hemmings Scientific American Volume 75 The Autocar: A Journal Published in the interests of the mechanically-propelled road carriage 1896 Novel Race My Home Track - Rhode Island and the late, great Narragansett Park Speedway - NASCAR Talk | NBC Sports Boston Sunday Globe Archives, Sep 19, 1915, p. 15 Narragansett Park Speedway The First Automobile Races in America (Upd. Cranston, Rhode Island) - PreWarCar A Look Back On Rhode Island's Narragansett Park Chicago Times-Herald race - Wikipedia The Forgotten Car That Won America's First Auto Race | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine Oval track racing - Wikipedia Duryea Motor Wagon Company - Wikipedia The Duryea Motor Wagon: There's a First Time for Everything | 2020 Time Lapse: Turrets, tents and hippies -- where, when, what's happening here? History of Auto Racing automobile racing | Britannica Andrew L. Riker - Wikipedia History of the American Automobile - Cole's Collision Center Racing in America Automobile History. History of the automobile - Wikipedia Race track - Wikipedia Horseracing in the US | American Experience | Official Site | PBS First 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