For about as long as there have been cars, there have been drivers eyeballing each other and sizing up who can get from point A to point B the fastest. Prior to the 1900s, when automotive racetracks ...

The first automobile race in the United States was the Chicago Times-Herald race in 1895. In the century and some change since then, roughly 100 racetracks have come and gone. We nearly lost Willow ...

FREEHOLD, N.J. - Freehold Raceway, the oldest horse racing track in the country, will close in December after 170 years. It will mean the end of an era in New Jersey. Horses have been racing the ...

For the first time in the United States since data has been recorded, the racing-related fatality rate for the majority of U.S. races—specifically tracks under the oversight of the Horseracing ...