Abandoned Tracks: Beverly Hills Speedway

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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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4 окт 2024

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@kurt2022 6 месяцев назад

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 6 месяцев назад

And now it's happened to Auto Club.

@kurt2022 6 месяцев назад

@@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 6 месяцев назад

@@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 6 месяцев назад

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

@vladtepis4316 6 месяцев назад

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

@blackhatt9926 6 месяцев назад

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

@IsaacV24 6 месяцев назад

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!

@Journeyjeffgordonfan24 6 месяцев назад

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.

@johnvandeventer8668 6 месяцев назад

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

@samulrich9011 6 месяцев назад

And his car was GREEN - hence the superstition.

@christiansmith9414 6 месяцев назад

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

@lanternsown3525 6 месяцев назад

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

@corvetteusa01 6 месяцев назад

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

@legoferrari14 6 месяцев назад

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!

@MontgomeryScotty 6 месяцев назад

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

@tomanderson6335 6 месяцев назад

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.

@alaricbragg7843 4 месяца назад

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

@ncjay08 6 месяцев назад

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.

@chrisstopher2277 5 месяцев назад

Amazing archive footage.

@scottywalker4312 6 месяцев назад

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

@glenchapman3899 6 месяцев назад

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

@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT 6 месяцев назад

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

@AEMoreira81 6 месяцев назад

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.

@suzanneleather2748 2 месяца назад

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 4 месяца назад

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

@tylerlow1791 6 месяцев назад

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

@alexisgasnier4293 6 месяцев назад

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

@Duster2582 6 месяцев назад

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. 6 месяцев назад

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

@AndrewStinsonAPU 29 дней назад

I live in Century City which would have been on the western border of the track. So weird to see those aerial shots and to think all of that barren land on the western edge of the track would some day become the back lot of 20th Century Fox Studios during the Hollywood era and then become the sparkling high-rise district that it is today!

@fluffskunk 6 месяцев назад

Land speculation ruins literally everything.

@PerryWhyte 6 месяцев назад

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

@glenchapman3899 6 месяцев назад

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

@Yew-Tyewbe 6 месяцев назад

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

@vladtepis4316 6 месяцев назад

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

@BlackFlagsMatter 6 месяцев назад

Just saw it and it’s quite the painting lmao

@mikewhitcomb6558 6 месяцев назад

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

@billfunk3168 6 месяцев назад

Very informative video ! Enjoyed

@NoahWilliamsTheParodyEntertain 6 месяцев назад

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

@crouchb15 6 месяцев назад

@ChevchukRacing 6 месяцев назад

we use to pray for times like this

@AustinLaPlante 6 месяцев назад

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

@narlyfifa7774 6 месяцев назад

we need an asphalt recreation of this for cup

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 6 месяцев назад

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

@Closet_Jedi 6 месяцев назад

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.

@NASCARFAN93100 6 месяцев назад

RIP Gaston Chevrolet 🙏

@rodger2499 4 месяца назад

Now Beverly Hills is nothing but crime and snobby residents.

@leonardo_the_hack 6 месяцев назад

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

@ZontarDow 6 месяцев назад

A booming real estate market

@firelynx1108 6 месяцев назад

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

@NASCARFAN93100 6 месяцев назад

Motorsports during its infancy

@Cynon 6 месяцев назад

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.

@andrewjames1817 6 месяцев назад

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

@bradsanders407 6 месяцев назад

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

@runrafarunthebestintheworld 6 месяцев назад

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

@gladboimusic 6 месяцев назад

imagine a Next Gen on a board track

@jwrailve3615 6 месяцев назад

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 6 месяцев назад

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 6 месяцев назад

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

@rherbfm 6 месяцев назад

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

@bobroberts2371 6 месяцев назад

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

@ReedThomas71 2 месяца назад

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.

@g_men2121 6 месяцев назад

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