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As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau,...
Half a century ago, Speed Week in the Bahamas was one of the most popular race meets on motor racing’s international calendar. Many of the sport’s top names looked forward to each December’s “working vacation” in the Caribbean as the runways of Nassau’s Oakes Field were transformed into a venue...
Following two years of planning and assistance from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas Speed Week Revival will take...
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As the organizers of the Bahamas Speed Week Revival work toward their ultimate aim of bringing full-blown racing back to Nassau, two races have been added to the 2013 program, set for December 4-8. The honor of being the first to race there in nearly 50 years (and precisely 50...
Bahamas Half-Pint Dear Editor, Hugh Dibley’s splendid piece on racing a Formula Junior Lola at Bahamas Speed Week (Legends Speak,...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
If ever an event deserved to be revived, it was the Nassau Speed Weeks. Originally held between 1954 and 1966,...
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The Bahamas Speed Weeks Revised Edition, including the Revival Meetings By Terry O’Neil From 1954 to 1966, the Bahamas Speed Weeks—on New Providence Island in the Bahamas—was a must-do race meeting that combined post-season competition, with warm, tropical winter weather and a prodigious party scene that came to be just...
Hugh DibleyPhoto: Glynn Jones It all began as an end-of-season sojourn in the sun. The Bahamas Speed Week had been...
Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister Phillip Davis has confirmed his government’s continuing support for the Bahamas Speed Week Revival by pledging...