Westshore Motorsports Park (formerly “Western Speedway”) was a race track located just outside

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on southern

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. It was a 4/10-mile (643 meter) paved oval track founded in 1954 and was western Canada’s oldest speedway until its closure in September 2022. The track was able to seat up to 3,000 fans and park up to 1,500 cars with a season running from April to September. The speedway hosted mainly stock cars, late models, Old Time Racing Association, sprint cars winged and non-winged, demo cars/trucks, dwarf cars, drag races, and mini figure eight cars and monster trucks and more. The track hosted 9

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events between 1970 and 1982 and 10

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races between 1986 and 1989. The track also hosted 2

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West Series races in 2001 and 2002.

External links

* * http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/CAN/BC/Western.html#TrackFacts
Western Speedway archive
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