Seekonk Speedway

Rhode Island

The same family has run this quarter-mile oval since 1946, and once flooded it for boat races.

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One family has run this oval since the day it opened, and no other race track in the country can say that for as long. Dominic Anthony Venditti started building it in nineteen forty-five, riding the racing boom that came right after the war. It opened on the thirtieth of May, nineteen forty-six, and the Venditti family has guided it ever since. That makes it the longest continually operated family-owned race track in the United States. He built it with midget cars in mind, a quarter-mile of paved oval. Modifieds became the staple for close to twenty years. In nineteen eighty the track was stretched to a third of a mile. It is also the widest track in New England, seventy-two feet across, with seats all the way around so you can see the whole thing from anywhere. And at least once, the place was flooded so boat races could run inside its walls.

This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.

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The track holds the distinction of being the longest continually operated family-owned race track in the United States, under the guidance of the Venditti family since it opened on May 30, 1946.

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