Candlestick Park (now Monster Park) has been the site of a temporary course in the stadium parking lot in San Francisco, California. The parking lot is currently used for various Solo and Autocross events.
New: 1999-06-19 Last Updated: 2007-10-27
A 1.9 mile temp road course was used from 1963 through August 11th, 1965. The 1.5 mile course was proposed for sometime in the mid-90s, probably by NASA, but the NASA race does not seem to have actually happened.
Allan E. Brown, The History of America's Speedways: Past & Present. Comstock Park, Michigan: Brown, 2003 , ISBN 0931105617 , pp. 128. Order from National Speedway Directory |
Pete Hylton, Ghost Tracks: A Historic Look At America's Lost Road Racing Tracks. Benton, Kentucky: Legacy Ink, 2007 , ISBN 978-0-9796976-1-6 , pp. 68-70. Order from publisher |
The Google Map Link below shows the 1.9 mile course used by the SCCA in the 60s.
This map shows the course for a proposed NASA event in the 90s. This event apparently never took place.
For information on how these aerial images work, Click Here.
You may also wish to try using the Yahoo! Search as it may produce current news items.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.