There is very little material on the Internet about Meadowdale. That is one of the reasons for this website. Most of
these links are to casual mentions of MIR in articles on other topics. Click on the URLs to go to these websites.
Meadowdale Memories
Snapshots and results from a club race at Meadowdale Raceway in July, 1967. Presented by Salt Creek Sports Car Club
Fascinating recounting of the early days of Chicago region SCCA discusses their events at Meadowdale, Road America,
Wilmot and other venues. IMHO, Chicago region was tight with Road America and seemed to butt heads with MIR more
often than not. (3 sections mention Meadowdale)
Sunbeam Alpine racing history mentions MIR frequently.
Brief comment about Mark Donohue's first visit to MIR early in his racing career.
Picture and brief specs of an Intermeccanica Formula Junior, mentioning MIR.
Article from 1965 Chicago Auto Show Program discusses sports car racing, including MIR. Ad inset for MIR with many
photos, indistinctly.
AMX fan's website about the 1968 Trans-Am season mentions MIR
Reprint of a 1963 track test of a Gran Sport Corvette at MIR. Written by Bill Maloney (aka Redline Muldoon), a frequent
Midwestern Council competitor during the Meadowdale era.
ARCA Stock Car Racing winners at Meadowdale in 1959, 1960 and 1964
Other Racing History
Active 1963 to 1969.
Austin Raceway Park Another ghost track in Austin, Texas.
Mid-America Raceway, Wentzville, MO. A bit of history and links to the past of this ghost track.
Studebaker Racing History. A well-done site in the spirit of this one, tracking the history of Studebakers in racing.
Virginia International Raceway - history. A site like this one, dedicated to a long shuttered race course. But now VIR
Tam's Old Race Car Site. Great photo history of sports car racing. Primarily west coast, but with many links to other
Wilmot Hills Road Racing Course. Another ghost race track, active 1954-67, located on the property that is now Wilmot
Lynndale Farms Race Course. Another midwestern ghost track, active 1964-67, located in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.
Road Racing at Wisconsin State Fair Park No longer a ghost track. The road course has been re-activated and sports
Current Information
Leonard W. Besinger played in it. (Besinger was the builder of Meadowdale Raceways.)
the 1968 Trans-Am races.for this website. He also has photos on the Lynndale Farms website. Mike has been involved
with sports racing since the early 60's, as a spectator, crew, safety worker, owner/driver, photographer and writer. He
always used his cameras liberally, building up a large collection of pictures of the racecars, competition, people,
transporters and such. If you are restoring a vintage sports racer, want photos for a book or article, or just want to
document vintage racing memories, ask Mike about his extensive collection of old and new vintage racing pictures!
a whole lot of other neat stuff.
A Trip to Meadowdale International Raceway Aspiring racer Eric Hansen visited Meadowdale and includes photos and
MSN TerraServer aerial photographs of the MIR property, 1999 and USGS topographic map, 1991.
North American Motorsports website page on MIR.
Burt "BS" Levy writes great stories about sports car racing as it really was just before and (hopefully, in his next book)
during the time of Meadowdale Raceway. He's also a long-time buddy and the only student who ever scared me out of a
Recent visits to MIR. Salt Creek SCC newsletter reprints a recent thread from the Midwestern Council news group.
Racing Circuits DataBase. A project to list tracks all over the world.
Applied Ecological Systems website discusses their part in maintaining the natural aspects of the MIR property. Happily,
they seem to realize the importance of the track to the history of the area.
Dundee Township Park District website includes listing of Raceway Woods.
Village of Sleepy Hollow (just west of track) enviromental action plan includes mention of MIR.
Interview with developer of racing sim game Trans-Am Racing '68-'72, which indicates it will have a Meadowdale layout in it.
Interview is from August, 1999. Is this game out? Out and gone? Still in development? A dead issue?
North Suburban SCC presented many races at Meadowdale in its prime. They still present races at Blackhawk Farms,
Road America, GingerMan and other tracks in the midwest. They also host a free and open-to-the-public series of seminars
Midwestern Council of SCC was presenter of many races at Meadowdale. Their general information site is at www.mcscc.org.
A picture site, including shots from Meadowdale contemporary tracks Wilmot Hills, Lynndale Farms and others is at
Chicago Region SCCA had an on again, off again relationship with Meadowdale. Members helped with the initial planning and
the region probably contributed a couple of extra years to the track's life by developing the north 1-mile "club course" after
Wilmot Hills closed, but the relationship always seemed to be adversarial, at least to this outsider.
Milwaukee Region SCCA ran many national, divisional and regional races at Meadowdale. They seemed to get along with the
More Links will be added as they are found. Suggestions are welcome. Send to rossf@cognifast.com
