Location | Placerville, California ( El Dorado County Fairgrounds) |
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Time zone | UTC -8 ( UTC-7 DST) |
Coordinates | 38°43′34″N 120°49′56″W / 38.72611°N 120.83222°W |
Opened | 1965 |
Former names | Hangtown Speedway |
Major events |
World of Outlaws sprint cars USAC National midgets [1] USAC Western midgets [1] King of the West-NARC Sprint Car Racing Series [2] |
Website |
placervillespeedway |
1/4 mile oval | |
Surface | dirt |
Length | 0.25 miles (0.40 km) |
Placerville Speedway is a 1/4 mile dirt track [3] located in Placerville at the El Dorado County fairgrounds [1] in the Sierra Nevada foothills of eastern California.
The track began in 1965 as "Hangtown Speedway". [4]
On November 20, 2019, the speedway held the Elk Grove Ford Hangtown 100, a 100-lap, $20,000-to-win USAC National Midget Series race which was won by Kyle Larson. [3] It was the first time that the national midgets raced at the track. [1] That same year, the World of Outlaws sprint cars made their first appearance at the track in approximately twenty years. [5] In 2020, the weekly races were broadcast on FloRacing [6] as the track was not allowed to have fans due to the global pandemic. [7]