It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney enhanced his record as an all-around champion there. Some assume that post-WWII stock car road racing started at Riverside, but that’s not true. There were five stock car events on road courses in Southern California prior to the first one at Riverside that was held on December 1, 1957.
After the 1957 Riverside event, there wasn’t a stock car race there until January 20, 1963, which was won by Dan Gurney against top NASCAR talent. Dan won a total of five NASCAR races there, an astonishing feat considering the opposition.
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