Los Angeles Motordrome
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33.968°N 118.439°W / 33.968; -118.439
Location | Motordrome, near Playa del Rey, California, United States |
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Opened | 1910 (1910) |
Circular | |
Surface | Wood |
Length | 1.0 miles (1.6 km) |
Turns | 1 |
The Los Angeles Motordrome was a circular 1-mile (1.6 km) wood board race track. It was located in Playa del Rey, California, and opened in 1910.[1] In addition to automobile racing, it was used for motorcycle competition and aviation activities.
The Motordrome was a scaled-up version of a bicycling velodrome, and was built by Jack Prince, a pre-eminent constructor of velodromes at the time. It was the first of numerous board tracks built for auto racing in the 1910s and 1920s. As an early example of a race track purpose-built for competition, it marked the first use of then-innovative safety features that later became common to most tracks. The Motordrome was highly successful, attracting many competitors and large crowds of paying spectators, but it lasted just three years. A fire destroyed the track in January 1913.