Abandoned Tracks: Beverly Hills Speedway

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4 ай бұрын

Los Angeles Speedway is well known from the CARS movies & video games but over 100 years ago it actually existed! However, that name was secondary as its main name was Beverly Hills Speedway.
Today, we will review the track's short history and how it and other events created the perfect storm that put Beverly Hills on that map!
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@kurt2022 4 ай бұрын

The same thing happened at Ontario and Riverside; greedy land developers always win the last race and along with it, it brings the destruction of another track.

@PerryWhyte 4 ай бұрын

And now it's happened to Auto Club.

@kurt2022 4 ай бұрын

@@PerryWhyte I didn't know that, from what I just read, it is going to become a 1/2-mile track so they can sell most of the land off. I wonder if the half-mile Bristol like track will ever happen.

@rickydeathtower 4 ай бұрын

@@kurt2022those plans have halted and there’s been no further movement unfortunately. I haven’t looked into it recently but a lot of people were speculating they weren’t going to make a short track. Fingers crossed!

@lightfeather9953 4 ай бұрын

God forbid people use their own property for what is most in demand. Not like people need housing in California right? Come on.

@vladtepis4316 4 ай бұрын

.... 605 Speedway, Ascot. Irwindale and Perris are under threat. Not to mention all of the dragstrips that have disappeared over the years.

@blackhatt9926 4 ай бұрын

As a Los Angeles local, who has been on the very streets that surround where the track was, I had no idea that ever existed. Thank you for this video, excellent as always

@jeffgordonfan24 4 ай бұрын

Racing at Beverly Hills started 4 years before Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, Duchess of Hohenburg were assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Crazy when motor racing started out Imperialism was just starting to go out the door.

@IsaacV24 4 ай бұрын

I can’t believe I just asked about this track on the NWP on Wednesday. Thank you so much for shining more light on this long forgotten track!

@johnvandeventer8668 4 ай бұрын

Gaston Chevrolet was killed there in November 25, 1920 which was the same year he won the Indianapolis 500

@samulrich9011 4 ай бұрын

And his car was GREEN - hence the superstition.

@christiansmith9414 4 ай бұрын

they’ll get sued for noise violation if they put up a plaque

@lanternsown3525 4 ай бұрын

I've heard board track raceways before but never knew Beverly Hills had one.

@MontgomeryScotty 4 ай бұрын

Things I didn't know. Thanks! I'd love to see you do Saugus Speedway. Used to race out there in the 90's

@corvetteusa01 4 ай бұрын

The board tracks are such a cool but brief time in racing history that is all but forgotten or not known by many.

@legoferrari14 4 ай бұрын

Historic Sim Studios are working on recreating a collection of board tracks for Assetto Corsa, bringing this point in history to the sim racing community!

@tomanderson6335 4 ай бұрын

Great video. It's worth mentioning that BHS had a successor of sorts in the form of Culver City Speedway, and it served up even faster speeds. Also, Harold Osmer's "Where They Raced" books (the latest edition is subtitled "Turn 3") are a great source for anyone looking for further information about Southern California motorsports history in general, not just the board tracks.

@ncjay08 4 ай бұрын

Maybe IRacing should consider rebuilding the wooden race tracks in memoriam. Blows my mind that wooden race tracks used to be a very big deal. I can't imagine how much wood it took for an entire facility to be built.

@alaricbragg7843 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video! 🙂 You really need to make more historical videos like this!

@Duster2582 4 ай бұрын

I think you should also talk about 2 other race tracks that existed in the Los Angeles area, more specifically in the city of Gardena: Ascot Park Speedway & Carrell Speedway

@S.K.R.E.Inc. 4 ай бұрын

Those 2 tracks hosted NASCAR racing in 1951-????. That's how long NASCAR was in SoCal. It's been there since the foundation of the sport

@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT 4 ай бұрын

Beverly Hills Speedway would have been a perfect race track in terms of marketing and advertisement for any racing series!

@AEMoreira81 4 ай бұрын

But when celebrities began moving there, its fate was sealed as the track’s land was much more valuable than the track itself. Part of its property became the Beverly Wilshire.

@fluffskunk 4 ай бұрын

Land speculation ruins literally everything.

@scottywalker4312 4 ай бұрын

I wish I could spend just one day back then! It would be amazing!

@glenchapman3899 4 ай бұрын

Cant even imagine what the sound was like. Those engines back then were super throaty

@tylerlow1791 4 ай бұрын

I was just reading on board tracks last week. Great video.

@suzanneleather2748 9 күн бұрын

One of the unique features of the BHS track was that the boards were laid on the narrow side up rather than the wide side up! This made the track surface much stronger and smoother, it was also safer as loose boards caused horrific accidents. The cost in construction though must have been enormous!

@TimHunold 2 ай бұрын

Beverly Hills resident here, we have a lot of car people who are very aware of the track, and some of us have hunted for years to find memorabilia to no avail

@chrisstopher2277 3 ай бұрын

Amazing archive footage.

@alexisgasnier4293 4 ай бұрын

I would have never imagined there was racing happening here before ! Now that's a good video !

@AustinLaPlante 4 ай бұрын

Do hope you do the Rockingham Race Track in Salem, NH (also was a board race track as well).

@PerryWhyte 4 ай бұрын

I admit, I was expecting the 90210 theme song to pop up at one point.

@glenchapman3899 4 ай бұрын

Yeah I never knew they were a thing in the US.

@vladtepis4316 4 ай бұрын

Also known as the Beverly Hills Boards. Artist Robert Williams did a painting detailing the Gaston Chevrolet accident called Death On The Boards.

@BlackFlagsMatter 4 ай бұрын

Just saw it and it’s quite the painting lmao

@mikewhitcomb6558 4 ай бұрын

I have met Robert Williams, he is a friend of a friend. Quite the character and just a really nice guy.

@NASCARFAN93100 4 ай бұрын

RIP Gaston Chevrolet 🙏

@Yew-Tyewbe 4 ай бұрын

That must have taken some almighty man power, laying all those boards!

@syko-blud 4 ай бұрын

There really should be a Historical Marker on the site where the Track once stood. The fact its almost forgotten

@leonardo_024 4 ай бұрын

Not completely sure but there could be a tragedy at that track besides the King

@billfunk3168 4 ай бұрын

Very informative video ! Enjoyed

@ChevchukRacing 4 ай бұрын

we use to pray for times like this

@Closet_Jedi 4 ай бұрын

We had a board track here in Cincinnati as well, a 2 mile banked oval built on the north side of the city. I think it was banked 17 degrees, nowhere near as high as Beverly Hills.

@Cynon 4 ай бұрын

Financial speculation by big banks and board tracks -- a one-two punch to ensure a track doesn't last. Unrelated, but there was a dirt track less than 5 minutes walking distance from my house that existed in the 1930s. Land speculation didn't kill this track, a few floods in 1936 did, but I have no doubt in my mind that it *would have* within 10 years anyway, which is admittedly sad. If it wasn't for banks doing that amount of land speculation... well, maybe Chicago and Indianapolis, and not the Charlotte area, would be the hub of motorsport in the United States.

@narlyfifa7774 4 ай бұрын

we need an asphalt recreation of this for cup

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 4 ай бұрын

Yes but I think we already have it in Homestead Miami speedway Beverly Hills Speedway looks like Homestead.

@NASCARFAN93100 4 ай бұрын

Motorsports during its infancy

@ZontarDow 4 ай бұрын

A booming real estate market

@g_men2121 4 ай бұрын

Thats cool. Wonder if the track would've been turned into a hore racing track for today or another world of outlaws track as a crown jewl. We will never knoe

@firelynx1108 4 ай бұрын

If this happens to Laguna Seca, I am gonna go crazy

@andrewjames1817 4 ай бұрын

Now there is a golf course in the middle of Beverly hills

@NoahWilliamsTheParodyEntertain 4 ай бұрын

It’s good when this guy uploads videos. Makes me feel like giving a Sh*t about KZfaq nowadays

@crouchb15 4 ай бұрын

@gladboimusic 4 ай бұрын

imagine a Next Gen on a board track

@jwrailve3615 4 ай бұрын

I think it’s time nascar gets back to building new tracks. 1 mile, 1.3 mile, O shaped 1.5 mile, and a 1.75 mile high banked overlapping figure 8 with an overpass to go above the intersection.

@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 4 ай бұрын

So Super Mile Oval, Darlington 2: The Lady in the Long Black Veil, Langhorne but actually good (and safe), And 8-Bowl Speedway. I dig the bottom two for the uniqueness.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 4 ай бұрын

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197yeah a Darlington 2.0 in the West coast maybe in Idaho.

@littleteapot132 4 ай бұрын

@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet 4 ай бұрын

Hello

@TiresBlocksandCountryballs 4 ай бұрын

Street circuit similar to Long Beach? Bring back racing to Beverly Hills?

@glenchapman3899 4 ай бұрын

Yes no barriers and no warning of the event. That would spice things up a bit.

@bradsanders407 4 ай бұрын

Seems like a wooden track would be an exceptional fire risk for racing.

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 4 ай бұрын

Yep espicially in California where wild fires happen. I guess it's a good thing it didn't last very long.

@bobroberts2371 4 ай бұрын

Time 001 Why is there a parking lot outside of the speedway?

@DC322 4 ай бұрын

Its ashamed what they are doing Auto Club right now.

@rherbfm 4 ай бұрын

Man, can you imagine the horrible blisters racers would get?

@rodger2499 2 ай бұрын

Now Beverly Hills is nothing but crime and snobby residents.

@phillipvennemann503 4 ай бұрын

Beverly hills speedway Beverly hills California Beverly hills 200

@ReedThomas71 29 күн бұрын

That would be a great spot for a city street race like they do in Chicago. Have the race on as many streets as the old track sat upon. It maybe a good spot for the new EV NASCAR series since the city and state are so environmentally aware.