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If you are not aware, there is a great Facebook page on the track.

Historic Aerials.com
Aerial views of the track, when it was still intact present a confusing pattern of race tracks
within a race track. This happens to be 1962.

EARLY RACING

It appears that the first racing in what one would call the stock car racing era took place just before World War II, with crude roadster - like jalopies called
"muddy buggies". There were no safety features and the cars raced only on dirt. Some of that early racing did occur in Dover [whether the formal race facility was
there or not is not clear]. This is where famed racing promoter Charlie Elliott got his start, racing one of those beasts. It would not surprise me if fellow
promoter Oscar Ridlon might not have tried them, as well. Early racing was also done in nearby Newmarket, NH.

Via Joe Baril A rare photo of mud buggies in action on a track said to be in Dover, NH.	Joe Batal Collection Via Tim Drake Mud Buggy driver Albert "Bye Bye" McGlone.	Joe Batal Collection Via Tim Drake The really safe looking helmet of Albert "Bye Bye" McGlone.	Via David Topham Might be driver Albert "Bye Bye" McGlone.	Lew Boyd Collection ViaScott Haskell Charlie Elliott.
	Via David Topham Not sure where this rare beauty of Bob Moore's fits in, so I put it here.	Via David Topham More of of Bob Moore's strange car

EARLIER POST - MUD BUGGY RACING

I spent decades blissfully unaware of Dover Speedway. I was probably too far south in Vermont to hear much about it. The track seemed to share entrants from not only nearby regions of Maine, but also sme of that bunch that ran Massachusetts tracks. Of course, there were the locals, too.

Via David Topham Some earlier Dover Speedway action that includes the well . known Devil 7 of Barney Mattie, a regular at Bay State ovals.	Via David Topham Earlier post Mud Buggy action at Dover.	Via David Topham This early sedan might have been connected with Dover's own Ernie Gahan.	Via David Topham Flagger Lefty Ellis starts a field that includes Barney Mattie [far right].	Via David Topham A strange, eclectic field that includes cutdowns and more standard coupes.
Via David Topham Mass. driver Art Rousseau likely drove both midgets and stockers at Dover.	Via David Topham Mario "Fats" Caruso, another Bay Stater, ran Dover, too.	Via Wade Worster A car from the famed Stoney's Diner team that included Gahan and others.	Via David Topham Might be driver Albert UNK car 9.	Via Dennis Drake Early Dover entrants: Nash "Crash Nash" Couture, Charlie "Zipp" Zerbenopoulos, and a mechanic. Zipp, as well as Gahan, also raced at Keene, NH.
Via David Topham Maine legend, Dick Garrett.	Via David Topham Early region drivers who raced Dover, Sanford, and other venues.	Via Wade Worster Another car that looks to be from the Stoney's DIner team.	Via David Topham Ernie Gahan with an early car and trophy. Track UNK.	Gahan Family Collection Another early Gahan car that has come to misfortune.
Gahan Family Collection Another early Gahan car.	Via David Topham Ernie Gahan with an early Stoney's Diner car - one he also raced at Keene, NH.	ViaTim Drake Ernie Gahan with an early car .	Via David Topham Ernie Gahan with an extremely early car and crew.	Via David Topham Ernie Gahan withthat sedan 111, supposedly on Dover Speedway.
Via George Hill Red Thurber's car, driven by Paul Martell, at Dover.	Via Jim Bernier Fats Caruso, at Dover.	Via Tim Drake George Nichols with a very early Ernie Gahan car - perhaps at home.	Via Peter Stickles "Hammerin' Hank" Ellsmore.	Via David Topham A good view of the track.
Via David Topham All - around great driver Art Rousseau at Dover with what they called a "big car".	Via David Topham NH driver Roger "Cowboy" Rivers, who raced at Dover and Sanford.	Via Tim Drake Early star Otis Brayton at another track called Granite State Park.	Via David Topham NH driver Roger "Cowboy" Rivers, who raced at Dover and Sanford.	Via David Topham Earlier [and more standard] Bob Moore stock car.
Via David Topham Earlier [and more standard] Bob Moore stock car.	Via David Topham Bob Moore's next stock car is getting a little more creative. Nice looking car !	Via David Topham Is this yet another Bob Moore variation ?.

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A Dover jacket patch.

LATER POST - MUD BUGGY RACING

Via Walter Newell Alfred McDermott ran this B coupe at Beech Ridge. The two tracks shared some car; I don't know if Dover ran this class or not.	Via David Topham The great Dick Garrett with a car that may have run Dover.	Via Bryce Mitchell Jim McClure may have driven this car at Dover.	Via David Topham MIdget driver Don Shanebrook, in a photo that likely belongs in the earlier section.	Via David Topham A Plaistow, NH car, said to be at Dover. Upon closer examination it looks like Ollie Silva. The COrvair could be a Bezanson car.
Via David Topham Local legend Gahan, said to be at Oxford, with the Sonny Koszella 15 he ran in the 1960's.	Via Peter Stickles Pete Says this John McAllister car ran at Dover.	Via Peter Stickles More John McAllister.	Via Walter Newell Ken Lund, another possible Dover car.	Via Walter Newell Marty Vachon, another Beech Ridger that was a possible Dover car.
Via David Topham Bob Bixby, C Class standout.	Via Roy Devereux This could be an earlier Red Barbeau car.	Via Rick Walker Cookie Thomas, with a Bomber class car that raced at Granite State Park.	Via David Topham Bobby Edwards, of alligator car fame with what is apparentlly his onw car. It looks a lot like a Red Thurber 444 - but I guess it isn't.	Via David Topham Bobby Edwards in less than an ideal moment.
Via David Topham Bob "Barnrat" Devaney with what looks like a hobby car.	Via David Topham DIck Edgerly with an earlier hobby car.	Via Andrew Nichols George Nichols and crew. This might belong in the earlier car section, not sure.	Via David Topham An earlier Howie Brown stock car.	Via David Topham Early Howie stocker with familiar 069.
Via David Topham Whitey Hoyt and crew.	Via David Dykes and David Topham Red Seguin vs Fred Luchesi [2] - likely not at Dover here.	Via David Topham Red Barbeau.	Via David Topham Red Segui.	Via David Topham Whit Toof.

VARIOUS DOVER SPEEDWAY ARTIFACTS

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Come one, come all !

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An article from the later era

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An article from an earlier era. Check out the American League teams. This is 1953, at latest.

THE SUPERS

Although I have tended to link those unique New England supermods with such as Hudson, Arundel, The PIne, and such - it looks like Dover Speedway was also a venue where these homebuilt rockets races. So I'm giving them their own section.

Via Peter Stickles Reino Tulonen's radical super.	Via Peter Stickles Reino Tulonen's radical super in the Dover pits.	Via David Topham Bill Murphy.	Via David Topham LIke says - Billie Murphy.	Via David Topham Roger Rivers with a later car. Kinda has a super look to it.	Via Bryce Mitchell Ralph Cusack, seen here at Beech Ridge likely tried Dover.
Via David Topham "Dynamite" Silva, on the track at Dover.	Via David Topham Pit work on a classic Ollie Silva car.	Via Bryce Mitchell The great Phil Libby.	Via David Topham Marty Vachon unloading his super.	Via Henry McNally Lee Allard with a long - framed super.	Via David Topham Mike Gaudette with a decidedly strange Dover car.
Via David Topham and Dave Dykes Super driver Jerry Dolliver.	Via David Topham More Dolliver.	Via David Topham NH driver Jim Landry.	Via Jim Bernier A young Jim Bernier with the Nash Couture super, driven by Archie Archambault.	Via David Topham Howie Brown, seen here getting a trophy at Epping, would have run Dover, as well.	Via Keith Jackson George Frolic landed this super in the grandstands at Dover in 1966.
Via David Topham Hometowner Albert Bison, with one of those unique supers.	Via Lili Bothwell Future Indy driver and New England native Bentley Warren at Dover with his own super.	Via Peter Stickles NH driver Charlie "Zipp" Zerbonopoulos, with a later car of his.h a later car of his.	Via Peter Stickles NH driver Charlie "Zipp" Zerbonopoulos, with a later car of his.	Via Bryce Mitchell Bob Greeley, with a Beech Ridge car that well might have tried Dover as well.	Via David Topham NH driver Dick Twombly.
Via David Topham Bob Cloutier.	Via David Topham The apparently not terribly well -braced Bob Cloutier car.	Via David Topham Ross Bentley, hometowner.	Via David Topham Bob "Barnrat" Devaney.	Via David Topham Bud Crotty.	Via David Topham Carl Tiberio, with one car he drove.
Via David Topham Another Carl Tiberio car.	Via David Topham DIck Batchelder.	Via David Topham DIck Edgerly	Via David Dykes and David Topham Eddie Hoyle.	Via David Topham Fred Borden, a master stock car driver, also drove this wild super.	Via David Topham Howie Brown in the 7/8 super.
Via David Topham Howie Brown and the 7/8 super crew.	Via David Topham Howie Brown and the not - so super 7/8 super.	Via David Topham Howie Brown in the Joe Deveau.	Via David Topham Paul Martell - not sure if it belongs in thihs section.	Via Bryce Mitchell The great Russ Nutting.	Via David Topham Nathan "Smokey" Boutwell.

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An article from the earlier era

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An roster from the later era. Check out the names on this baby !

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Various articles from the early era - mostly about Newmarket, which ran mostly the same cars as early Dover. We Vermonters recall
Tony Colicchio as a star at Thunder Road and Northeastern in the powerful Andy Cote 0, in the early 1960's.