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NASCAR Tracks - The Milwaukee Mile The Milwaukee Mile, located at the Wisconsin State Fair, is one of the country's most famous racing facilities. Because of that, The Milwaukee Mile proudly claims a heritage as the oldest operating major speedway in the world. The two inner tracks were removed in 1967 when the mile surface was repaved and the pit area was expanded over the space occupied by the two shorter ovals. premium.nascar.com /TRACKS/milwaukee   (296 words)

Milwaukee Mile officials keep racing on fans' minds - The Business Journal of Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Mile may be one of the oldest racetracks in the United States, but it hasn't made money in more than a decade. Milwaukee Mile Holdings' agreement with the State Fair Park board included an upfront payment of more than $2 million and annual payments of $1.9 million for 18 years. Milwaukee Mile Holdings officials are negotiating with Quaker Steak and Lube for its first Milwaukee-area restaurant as part of the group's $25 million hotel and retail development planned for State Fair Park, West Allis. milwaukee.bizjournals.com /milwaukee/stories/2006/09/18/focus3.html?t=printable   (1442 words)

RacingWisconsin.com MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club and The Milwaukee Mile motor speedway are two area institutions. When the Milwaukee Braves were flourishing at Borchert Field and County Stadium, A.J. Foyt and the other driving heroes of the Indianapolis 500 were racing at The Milwaukee Mile. Fast forward to 2006 and the Milwaukee Brewers are battling against their National League foes at Miller Park and The Milwaukee Mile continues to host one of the most diverse, world-class auto racing schedules in America over four racing weekends. www.racingwisconsin.com /mile060522.htm   (423 words)

Jayski's® Silly Season Site - Busch/Truck Tracks & Schedule News/Rumors Milwaukee Mile Holdings has also been granted an option to acquire 9.35 acres of state-owned land adjacent to The Mile along Greenfield Avenue in exchange for enabling the State Fair Park to acquire a private parcel of land located within the Park grounds and making of certain improvements, including the expansion of gates and entrances. In addition, Milwaukee Mile Holdings announced that former NFL player and Green Bay Packers star defensive lineman Gilbert Brown is an investor in the company, and will join The Mile staff as the Director of New Business Development, where he will focus on new business initiatives and various community-related activities. Milwaukee Mile News: The midway and main entrance to Milwaukee State Fair Park(where the Milwaukee Mile racetrack is located) in West Allis would face I-94 under renovation plans the State Fair Board approved unanimously Wednesday. www.jayski.com /pages/tracks/milwaukee.htm   (1978 words)

Northwoods Shelby Club - Milwaukee Mile Milwaukee Wisconsin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Since 1903, The Milwaukee Mile has been one of the premier venues in American motorsports. Our founding members knew that the fantastic location, the world famous oval, and the 1 mile infield road course would be a hit with all attendees. At the end of 2005, The Mile staff made changes to the course to improve it based on input from event attendees and other experts. www.nwshelbyclub.com /milwmile   (340 words)

Milwaukee Relocation and Moving Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The area is home to no fewer than five race tracks, including the Milwaukee Mile, the oldest continuously operated racetrack in the nation. Located ten miles north of the Illinois border and 4 miles west of I-94 on Exit 337 in Kenosha County. Milwaukee Mile: Located at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, the one-mile oval is the nation's oldest continuously operated major speedway. www.discovermilwaukee.com /things/racing.asp   (282 words)

The Milwaukee Mile The Milwaukee Mile has taken another step in the direction of recent safety and facility improvements, with the installation of the SAFER Barrier System, an energy-dissipating system that has been fastened to the speedway’s existing concrete wall. The Milwaukee Mile has been really good to me over the years, I've won there four times and I know that I have the upper hand on the rest of the field because of my experience on one mile ovals. The Milwaukee Mile is located at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, a few miles west of downtown Milwaukee, and approximately an hour and a half from Chicago. www.cartracingupdate.com /Tracks/milwaukee.htm   (5445 words)

Milwaukee Mile Tickets : Milwaukee Mile Nextel Cup Tickets @ BuySellTix The Milwaukee Mile is the oldest operating motor speedway in the world. The Milwaukee mile was built in 1880, and is owned by the Wisconsin State Fair. In 1992, with Milwaukee in danger of losing its CART race, Carl Haas was given a long-term contract to organize all racing activity at the storied facility. www.buyselltix.com /nascar/milwaukeeMile.php   (754 words)

Milwaukee Mile Governor's Cup Weekend Nuggets Milwaukee native Arthur Wetzel can honestly say he's been around since the historic oval was strictly a horse track. Milwaukee Mile Chairman Craig Stoehr invited Wetzel, a family friend who just turned 103 this Summer, to serve as the Governor's Cup 200 Grand Marshal. Contestants were chosen during each major 2006 Milwaukee Mile race event, plus on-line voting at www.missmilwaukeemile.com. www.theautochannel.com /news/2006/08/24/019848.html   (1389 words)

Milwaukee Mile Infield Road Course Surface Paved The 0.8-mile road course section inside the one-mile oval was completely rebuilt and widened to 36 feet and paved with a base coat of asphalt in July, 2004. A special mix of 600 tons of asphalt containing Rosphault RX was applied in the higher-load portions of the road course, including the tricky hair-pin turn inset of turn two of America's Legendary Oval. Milwaukee Mile Marketing LLC became the track promoter on January 1, 2006 and will continue to produce world-class auto racing in 2007 and beyond with NASCAR, IndyCar Series, ARCA and other well known sanctioning bodies to provide the highest level of auto racing entertainment. www.theautochannel.com /news/2006/10/24/026509.html   (427 words)

Summer Shootout - Milwaukee Mile Milwaukee – June 7, 2006 – Under sunny skies and in front of a good size crowd, the Summer Shootout returned to the Milwaukee Mile for round three of the 2006 season. Miles looped his Legend in early giving the lead back to Bilderback and fell to the back of the pack. Through the 1960’s, The Milwaukee Mile was a hotbed of weekly short track racing on the ½-mile and ¼-mile ovals that shared the frontstretch of the historic speedway’s one mile oval. www.racingwisconsin.com /summershootout/060607.htm   (916 words)

GMTODAY.com - Greater Milwaukee Today, Online News for You! MILWAUKEE - Winter returned in Wisconsin as a severe storm bore down that meteorologists warned would last through the weekend, bringing howling winds and up to 27 inches of snow or more in parts of the state. MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Public Schools will lift a ban after Friday's games for fans of two schools involved in a melee that led to 10 arrests and six injuries. MILWAUKEE - A 21-year-old man was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for his involvement in the group sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl last year. www.gmtoday.com   (943 words)

Milwaukee Mile tickets to be sold on line - Small Business Times Milwaukee Mile tickets to be sold on line Tickets to the auto racing events held at The Milwaukee Mile this summer will be available for purchase at the speedway's Web site, www.milwaukeemile.com, beginning Monday, Feb. 19. The Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200 NASCAR Craftman Truck Series event is scheduled for the evening of Friday, June 22, and the ATandT 250 NASCAR Busch Series race will take the green flag one night later. www.biztimes.com /daily/2007/2/13/milwaukee-mile-tickets-to-be-sold-on-line   (253 words)

FYI - KARTING ON THE MILWAUKEE MILE Milwaukee, Wisconsin — By the end of the Memorial Day weekend, the karters that tamed the Milwaukee Mile knew all about drafting as the Burris Circle Tour and the Badger Kart Club joined forces to put on a spectacular 2-day event at the famous track. In its’ 100 year history, the Mile is the oldest operating speedway in the United States. For most of the race, Ashely was battling with Briggs Animal drivers, Brad Richards and Peter Markwiez and at the finish, the drivers were in a virtual dead heat, with only 2/100ths of a second separating them. www.e-kmi.com /fyi/053005/053005_fyi_Milwaukee.cfm   (788 words)

AJ Foyt IV: News... A.J. Foyt IV battled back from an early race mishap to finish 16th in the A.J. Foyt Indy 225 at The Milwaukee Mile Sunday afternoon under clear blue skies. A.J. Foyt IV on Milwaukee: "We were only able to get half a day of testing because of the rain on the second day. Milwaukee is another track on our circuit that's unique because it's so flat. www.foytracing.com /AJFoytIV/2004_reports/AJIV_rr_milwaukee.html   (829 words)

Milwaukee Mile - Target Team Notes & Quotes / Target Corp The Milwaukee Mile is the flattest on the circuit. The front and back straightaways are of equal length at 1,265 feet and are banked at 2.5 degrees while the turns are banked at 9.25 degrees. This will be Dixon’s seventh visit to the Milwaukee mile. pressroom.target.com /pr/news/sports/indy/milwaukee-qualifying.aspx   (816 words)

TruckSeries.com Presented by Team ASE NASCAR drivers will be signing autographs this Friday from 3:00pm to 5:30pm at The Milwaukee Mile, with proceeds benefiting the March of Dimes. Milwaukee is one of just five tracks to have hosted a NASCAR Craftsman Truck race in all 10 seasons. Based on his recent NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series record at The Milwaukee Mile, this could be the week Terry Cook (No. 10 Power Stroke Diesel by International Ford) returns to top form. www.truckseries.com /2004/04r09-Milwaukee/04r09_index.html   (1632 words)

The magnificent mile: CART's first-ever nighttime event spotlighted 100 glorious years of racing at the Milwaukee Mile ... In late May, however, the Milwaukee Mile started a new trend for the U.S.'s maligned open-wheel circuit by becoming the first track to host a nighttime CART event. Over the 100th birthday celebration weekend, Milwaukee race fans were treated to an entire weekend of nighttime Champ Car racing: a Thursday practice, Friday night qualifying, and the Saturday night race. As surprising as it may be to believe that the Milwaukee Mile has been running races for more than 100 years, the track's history is much older than that. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCH/is_6_31/ai_106096835   (932 words)

GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Milwaukee Mile In the 1920s the track declined as the board tracks dominated the racing scene but in 1929 a new promoter Tom Marchese took over and in 1933 Champ Cars appeared at the Milwaukee Mile and the race was won by Wilbur Shaw. In 1954 the decision was taken to pave the track while a quarter-mile dirt oval was built in the infield for weekly events and horse racing continued on a half-mile oval until 1959. In the 1960s Jim Clark made history at Milwaukee when he won the first Champ Car victory with a rear-engined car in 1963 and it was at Milwaukee the following year that AJ Foyt scored the last win for a traditional Champ Car roadster. www.grandprix.com /gpe/cir-046.html   (559 words)

rpm.espn.com: IndyCars to race Mile in July '04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The Milwaukee Mile is located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park, and the announcement was made at a press conference during the Wisconsin State Fair. The first Indy-style event at Milwaukee that paid points toward the national championship was conducted in 1939 and won by Babe Stapp. I have won at Milwaukee before, and the racetrack is wide and good for passing. espn.go.com /rpm/irl/2003/0806/1591379.html   (574 words)

Indy Car: News... Bucknum and the team tested at the one-mile flat oval on Wednesday, logging nearly 200 laps, and came away extremely pleased. Afterwards, he was philosophical about his first race at the Milwaukee Mile, a place where his boss had competed in 45 Indy car races. Foyt has 45 Indy car starts at the Milwaukee Mile as a driver which is the most for him at any one track in Indy cars. www.foytracing.com /IndyCar/2006_reports/IC_rr_milwaukee.html   (1640 words)

NASCAR : Kevin Harvick Weekend Preview That’s a victory in 14 percent of the Busch races he has entered, a top-five in 49 percent of the races and a top-10 in 70 percent of the races. The Milwaukee Mile is a flat one-mile track and you seem to excel on these types of tracks. Milwaukee is one of those race tracks that has a lot of history, and we do a lot of testing there with our Cup cars in preparation for the Loudon (New Hampshire International Speedway). www.military.com /NASCAR/Content/0,15445,102679,00.html   (831 words)

The Milwaukee Mile (milwaukee) - Top Speed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Tony Kanaan won the ABC Supply Co./A.J. Foyt 225 Indycar race at the Milwaukee Mile, scoring the first win of the season for him and the Andretti Green Racing and also broke the Penske - Ganassi domination as they won all other races this season. Bourdais wins his first at Milwaukee to go for a perfect 4-of-4 start of the season Canada’s Paul Tracy could be the man to end Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais’ dominance in the Champ Car World Series when the 750-horsepower open wheel machines race this weekend in Round 4, the famous 225-lap Milwaukee Mile. www.topspeed.com /racing/the-milwaukee-mile-milwaukee/ke992.html   (999 words)

The Official Website of ARCA - Milwaukee Mile Tickets Pacing Ahead MILWAUKEE WI (2-6-06) - 2006 ticket sales at The Milwaukee Mile have gotten off to a fast start since the December 19th agreement transferring the promoter rights associated with ‘America’s Legendary Oval’ to Milwaukee Mile Holdings LLC, a company formed by Chairman Craig Stoehr and President and CEO Andy Randall. The Milwaukee Mile has the distinction of being the only oval course on the Champ Car World Series schedule in 2006, with Paul Tracy looking to defend his Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225 title on Sunday afternoon, June 4th. Money-saving Milwaukee Mile full season ticket packages include all four race weekends, while racing fans also have the option of purchasing a ticket package for the two world-class open wheel weekends, or the two stock car weekends. www.arcaracing.com /content/view/2721/2   (598 words)

MILWAUKEE MILE; Norris goes Mile high to avoid beaten path; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, Aug 29, 2005 by DAVE KALLMANN If Norris hadn't had to follow Schendel for a time, the 24-year- old probably wouldn't have learned that the high line was the quick way around the Milwaukee Mile. And without that discovery, Norris couldn't have run down Schendel to win the Milwaukee 200 in his NASCAR Midwest Series debut. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20050829/ai_n14910015   (993 words)

Milwaukee Mile Raceway Tickets - Milwaukee Mile Raceway Event Tickets - Milwaukee Mile Raceway Ticket Broker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Milwaukee Mile Raceway Tickets - Milwaukee Mile Raceway Event Tickets - Milwaukee Mile Raceway Ticket Broker If you could not find the right Milwaukee Mile Raceway tickets that you are looking for, please use the search on the left. Milwaukee Mile Raceway tickets may be purchased online through our guaranteed safe and secure server. www.tickets4concerts.com /venue/1101.html   (323 words)

JS Online: Milwaukee Mile officials are open to change For 57 of the past 60 years, the Milwaukee Mile has had a big race for open-cockpit, single-seat race cars that followed the Indianapolis 500 directly, give or take a week or two. But the Mile's new investor group is moving ahead in discussion with both sides on the assumption that both will be in existence and want to come back next year. This is a big weekend for Milwaukee Mile Marketing, a coming out party, of sorts, for the group that last off-season signed an 18-year lease with State Fair Park to run the track. www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=430738   (788 words)

SI.com - Motor Sports - Milwaukee adds IRL event in 2004 - Wednesday August 06, 2003 05:05 PM But so far the Milwaukee Mile is the only track certain of hosting both America-based major open-wheel series next year.The only track to host both series this season was California Speedway in Fontana, Calif. The Milwaukee Mile insists its new contract with the IRL is not a hedge against CART's uncertain future. Martin Greenberg, chairman of the board of the Wisconsin State Fair Park, where the Mile is located, said the track will soon announce a fourth weekend racing event in 2004. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2003/08/06/irl_milwaukee_ap   (463 words)

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