Daytona Beach Road Course

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The Daytona Beach Road Course was a historic motorsport circuit in Daytona Beach, Florida, that combined stretches of beach and public roads and hosted early stock car and land speed racing before being superseded by Daytona International Speedway.

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Daytona Beach Road Course canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct sports venue
motorsport race track
road course
associatedWithOrganization NASCAR
associatedWithPerson Bill France Sr.
cityStreetUsed South Atlantic Avenue
State Road A1A
surface form: State Road A1A
closed 1958
country United States of America
surface form: United States
eraOfProminence 1930s
1940s
1950s
firstNASCARRaceHeld 1948
hasBackStraightOn hard-packed sand beach
hasStartFinishOn paved highway section
heritageStatus historic motorsport venue
hostedEventType land speed record attempts
sports car races
stock car races
hostedSeries American Championship Car Racing
surface form: AAA Championship Car

NASCAR Cup Series
surface form: NASCAR Grand National Series

NASCAR Strictly Stock Series
sports car racing
influencedCreationOf Daytona International Speedway
lastNASCARRaceHeld 1958
layoutShape roughly rectangular
length 4.1 miles
6.6 kilometres
locatedIn Daytona Beach
surface form: Daytona Beach, Florida

Florida
Volusia County, Florida NERFINISHED
notableFor combining beach and highway sections
early NASCAR championship races
pre-war land speed record runs
opened 1936
parallelTo Atlantic Ocean
partOf history of NASCAR
history of land speed record attempts in the United States
reasonForClosure increasing spectator numbers
safety concerns
reasonForReplacement need for permanent superspeedway
replacedBy Daytona International Speedway
safetyLevel relatively low by modern standards
surfaceType asphalt
sand
usedBeachSection true
usedPublicRoads true

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Daytona International Speedway replaced Daytona Beach Road Course
Daytona 200 formerVenue Daytona Beach Road Course