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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Cars have raced here every year since 1903 - nothing else on earth can say that. The Milwaukee Mile at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis is the oldest operating motor speedway in the world, a one-mile oval that began as a private horse track in 1876 and hosted its first automobile race on September 11, 1903, when William Jones of Chicago won a five-lap contest at 50 miles per hour. The Agricultural Society of Wisconsin bought the grounds in 1891 as the permanent home of the State Fair, an...