WELCOME TO THE NEW RACEARENA.US WEBSITE at MeWe!
You can always find us here:
http://racearena.us or....
WELCOME...
To the NEW RaceArena WEBSITE....AT MEWE/Facebook Clone /
We are the official and definitive
Danbury Fair & Danbury Fair Speedways Racearena website.
We have a nice 'n easy url; http://racearena.us, or simply type "racearena.us" into your browser and you'll get here.
Photos of all the Racearena drivers have been uploaded in approximately 200 organized driver/fair photo galleries . Click GALLERIES on top right of page or on the right and they will appear in an nice 'n easy alphabetized list.
We are the most complete/PERMANENT Danbury Fair & Racearena archive on the 'net and if we ain't, tell us why but send in more pictures for us to post first! Just remember, the PORTAL page is our homebase.
This is a work in progress, and is a way to get the archives up, available, complete as possible, and permanent. The website is only as good as the contributions from it's members. This is not the typical ONE owner/contributor website. So please, feel free to join and UPLOAD Danbury Fair and Racearena pictures! To keep this thing alive and complete as possible we need volunteers uploading photos that only they may have!
Nothing costs money. It's all free. There's nothing stopping you! Just hit the post button on the top right of the page and upload your stuff! If you keep the stuff to yourself or just post it on facebook it will be lost forever...
HATEBook is not the answer. After a period of time the pictures wind up in no order and virtually unavailable without hours spent hunting. Comments and info winds up lost and pushed back into a far away jungle of disorganized comments and photo streams. Here, the photo galleries are alphabetized and easily accessed by clicking a link on top of the page. With a just a little bit of effort, this thing has been done right, thoroughly and permanently.
Please, feel free to sign up, join, post stories, and upload pictures here of anything you believe is of interest to Fair or Racearena fans. Post new photos of drivers in the comment sections of your driver in the Driver Photo ALBUMS. If you have a driver that does not have a gallery yet, then just post it . Please include as much information as you can or wish. As far as getting it posted into the right album, there should be a dropdown menu for you to choose, and if not I can take care of it for you.
The layout is fairly simple. All the links you need are on top of the page. Have fun. This site has everything facebook has and more. Time to move beyond facebook! Let's stop making that creepo Zuck even richer! Anyone can join, participate, upload photos, write articles or comments or contribute.
This website is permanent and will be here forever. If anything happens to the stored photos, I have backed everything up so it can be reconstituted.
Remember, there are no rules except 312ci max and all races must be complete by 12:00pm curfew.
eXtra Bonus
FREE DVD / ISO image download of Racearena action HERE!!!!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Byii36vVhatrUnVUTHlBWjBtOTQ
Please, if you "use" our photos on your Facebook or website, show us some love by leaving our watermark on the picture.
http://racearena.us
NEW WEBSITE....
AT MEWE/Facebook Clone / Racearena.US
(we are migrating over there).
P.S., If there are any errors like names or dates, etc., please put corrections in comment under the picture so the description can be fixed and updated. All pictures posted here are assumed to be in the public domain and have been copied from the internet's wide open digital world, namely they were taken from Google and if Google can host them, then it must be ok for us to host them too. If there are any pictures that you feel don't belong, let us know and we'll remove them as long as you can establish and provide proof of ownership and ownership to the copyright of any photo in question.
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MERCHANDISE;
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Danbury Fair Racearena Bill Reproduction Poster;
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Nick Giardina Collection here;
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Danbury Fair Racearena Shirt Reproduction Collection Here;
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AUTO RACES Danbury Fair Speedways Billboard Collection here;
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Art Davis Collection here;
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Chick Stockwell Collection here;
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Randy Lajoie Collection here;
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Don Lajoie Collection Here;
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Racearena Hot Sauce Here;
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Link to Racearena Store here;
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Danbury Fair Racearena Facts;
Located at the Danbury Fairgrounds
1/2 mile dirt oval (October 6, 1908 - October 7, 1939)
The grandstands were destroyed by fire on October 8, 1922
1/5 mile paved oval (June 1, 1940 - May 10, 1942) (September, 1945 - 1947)
1/4 mile paved oval (May 31, 1947 - September 30, 1951)
1/3 mile dirt oval (October 5, 1951 - October 8, 1955) (June 7, 1958)
1/3 mile paved oval (June 14, 1958 - October 12, 1981)
Held boat racing in a moat outside of track in August of 1958
Home track of Southern NY Racing Association (1952-1955) (1958-1981)
AKA: Danbury Fair Race Track, Danbury Speedway, Danbury Fair Speedways
Dirt era Danbury
Located in Southwestern Danbury, the Racearena featured several different track configurations during its existence. From its formative years as a horse track to its familiar 1/3 mile paved layout, the track hosted a variety of divisions.
Midgets and Modified Stock Cars were often main divisions at the track.
John Leahy owned the fair from the 1940s until his death in 1975
Statistics
Champions
Year Modified ## Sportsman ##
1959 Paul Pettit #
1960 Chick Stockwell #
1961 Chick Stockwell #
1962 Chick Stockwell #
1963 Chick Stockwell #
1964 Dick Barlow #
1965 Jimmy Smith #
1966 Jimmy Smith #
1967 Jimmy Smith #
1968 Chick Stockwell #
1969 Jimmy Smith #
1970 Chick Stockwell #
1971 Chick Stockwell #
1972 Kenny Webb #
1973 Jimmy Smith #
1974 Don LaJoie #
1975 Don LaJoie #
1976 Don LaJoie #
1977 Kenny Webb #
1978 Don LaJoie #
1979 Don LaJoie # John Hoffman #
1980 Art Davis # John Pasquence#
1981 Rit Patchen # Randy LaJoie #
References
http://www.goldenagetruckmuseum.com/Danbury Racearena_by_…http://www.time.com/…/magaz…/article/0,9171,950575-3,00.htmlhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082031/triviahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_needed…http://www.danbury.org/MusicCtr/NewsTimesArticles.htm
http://yankeeracer.com/wiki/index.php…