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Northern New York Drivers and Teams
A Look at the Tracks of Yesteryear
Tracks in this area would include Airborne Speedway, in Plattsburgh; Fort Covington Speedway, Fort Covington, NY.; Moffitt Road, near Plattsburgh; Saranac Lake, Saranac Lake, NY; and more I haven't heard about yet. I am not including tracks from the 1980's, on up to the present.
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Airborne Fort Covington Saranac Lake St. Lawrence Valley Speedway
AIRBORNE
SPEEDWAY
Plattsburgh, New York
Airborne has its own page elsewhere. CLICK HERE to go there.
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FORT COVINGTON
SPEEDWAY
Fort Covington, New York
The track in Fort Covington was so close to the Canadian border that a few of the old hands would exaggerate a bit and say one of the turns was actually in Canada. I don't think this is true. I have a Terraserver Satellite photo of the old layout which will make the location more correct; but, I don't a lot of pictures specific to Fort Covington. Many of the teams that ran Airborne or Saranac Lake would have run at Fort Covington, I suppose.
Courtesy of the Pascal "Magnum" Website
Medor Viau on the track at Fort Covington.
Terraserver Satellite Photo
The Fort Covington track is located right in the middle of this shot, just below
where the river [which is the international boundary] starts to arc to the
right. Notice the track IS quite close to that.
Terraserver USGS Topographical Map
The track is seen right under the Ft. in "Ft Covington".
Courtesy of Pascal "Magnum" website
Future engine builder Ovide Doiron is on the Fort Covington track in
what appears to be a late model race.
 Courtesy Pascal "Magnum" Website Paul Hamel, with the Gaston Ethier #66 likely drove at the Fort
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 John Grady Photo Wadington, NY's Buck Holliday ran at Ft. Covington |
 John Grady Photo Dick Nephew, of nearby Mooers Forks ran at the track |
 Bill Hoffnagle Photo Remains of frontstretch, Fort Covington |
 Bill Hoffnagle Photo Remains of stands, Fort Covington |
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 Bill Hoffnagle Photo Remains of a storage building that probably came after the track had closed. |
SARANAC LAKE
SPEEDWAY
Saranac Lake, New York
The track now has its own page. CLICK HERE.
ST. LAWRENCE
VALLEY SPEEDWAY
Canton, New York
The track has its own page. CLICK HERE.
The track in Canton was very pivotal in the early development of stock car racing in New York. The separate page, accessible by the link just above, will tell more.
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