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Lorain County Speedway

racing track in Amherst Township, Ohio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6678736 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lorain County Speedway, also known as Lorain Raceway Park, is an auto racing track located in Amherst Township, Lorain County, near South Amherst, Ohio, USA opened in 1949 as a 1/3 mile dirt oval. It was paved between the 1960 and 1961 racing seasons. It is currently a 3/8-mile asphalt oval, with 12 degree banking in both turns, and slight banking on the straightaways. The track sits at 781 feet elevation.

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“Lorain County Speedway” enters the record as racing track in Amherst Township, Ohio. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lorain, County and Speedway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1960, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lorain, County and Speedway.
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“Lorain County Speedway” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lorain, County and Speedway provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6678736. Authority coordinates are 41.359, -82.217. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1960 and 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lorain County Speedway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.