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    Board track racing was a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s. Competition was conducted on circular or oval race...
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    Laurel, Maryland (category Cities in the BaltimoreWashington metropolitan area)
    is a city in Maryland, United States, located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore on the banks of the Patuxent River. While the city limits are...
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  • raced at various tracks in 1993, including the East Carolina Motor Speedway near Robersonville, North Carolina and Langley Speedway in Hampton, Virginia...
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  • campus[citation needed] at the site of the former Beltsville Speedway (a.k.a. Baltimore-Washington Speedway), selected in 1980 and completed in September 1983....
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    debt he incurred. He also drove the speedway's pace car for several years. He operated the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for more than ten years, overseeing...
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    10 to September 1, 2017, the train terminated at Washington, D.C. instead of New York City due to track work at Penn Station. Starting October 1, 2019,...
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    opened 1873. Baltimore Union Station–Landover: Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road opened 1872. Landover–Washington, D.C.: Magruder Branch opened 1907 The Manhattan...
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    Jim McKay (category Television anchors from Baltimore)
    participated in the effort to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to Baltimore and Washington. In 1995, McKay had heart surgery and was forced to miss the Preakness...
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    started in 1919 as Speedway Field when several local groups came together to take control of the former bankrupt Twin City Speedway race track. The first hangar...
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    and Flemington Speedway. Midget car racing was popular during the 1930s and 1940s; the two major tracks were Yellow Jacket Speedway, which closed in...
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