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Road America, Circa 1958

May 25, 2026 By pete

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Text by Robert Birmingham
Photos by Glen Glendenning

The 1957 NASCAR race weekend attracted a less than hoped for crowd and rightfully so. To put it bluntly, the two-race program was too short, and the large American cars were not interesting. Therefore in 1958 Road America returned to what by now had become known as the June Sprints and three months later, the Road America 500.

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