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June Sprints

motor race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ6312428 ↗
Source-derived summary

The June Sprints are amateur sports car races held yearly on the third or fourth weekend of June at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

It is one of the longest-running standalone road races in the United States.

History

The event was first held in 1956 as a round of the SCCA National Sports Car Championship, as a shorter-format alternative to the Road America 500.

In 1982, the race was won by professional golfer Danny Edwards.

The June Sprints are hosted by the Chicago Region of the Sports Car Club of America.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, June, Sprints and motor is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “June Sprints” 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.