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 | | The famous Daytona, Florida race used a two mile (3 km) stretch of the beach as one straightaway and the beachfront highway as the other, prior to the construction in 1959 of the Daytona International Speedway, a 2.5 mile (4 km) high-banked track that became the icon of the sport. |
 | | From 1960 to 1988, NASCAR raced at the Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California, this was the only time NASCAR came out west (until the opening of Ontario Motor Speedway in 1970) and the only road course NASCAR ran on until the track closed in 1988. |
 | | The first NASCAR competition held outside of the United States was in Canada, where on, Buddy Shuman won a 200-lap race on a half-mile (800 m) dirt track in Stamford Park, ON, near Niagara Falls. |
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