Bridgeport, CT Race Track

[curious]

Somebody just sent me the link to these auctions on eBay, was there a race track in Bridgeport?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Orig-1972-Race-P...ayphotohosting

http://cgi.ebay.com/1987-BRIDGEPORT-...ayphotohosting

[RGeeProductions]

Bridgeport Speedway is New Jersey.

[curious]

Ok, thanks for the info I was going to say... I'm pretty sure I would have heard about it.

[RGeeProductions]

No problem. Click the name in the above post for the track website.

[randomrodder]

5/8 mile dirt track, sounds interesting, just might take a run down there sometime this year.

[Teds Race Tours]

Its a nice big 5/8th mile track. The outlaws avg about 135 mph there last time I saw them at BPort. Good racing. They also have a 1/4 mile dirt track in the infield for the smaller divisions. I think its exit 6 off of I 295 in South Joisey.

[zoomcat]

I know these items are from Bridgeport N.J. but there was a track in Bridgeport CT, I believe in the 1950's, called Candlelight stadium, later there was a drive in at the same location in a very urban neighborhood and there was a small grandstand still at the site at least until sometime in the early 80's.

[W. J.]

It is exit 14 off I-295 in N.J. Used to travel up to the track from Dover when we went for Cup races there. Good racing every time, I highly recommend the trip.

[RGeeProductions]

I know these items are from Bridgeport N.J. but there was a track in Bridgeport CT, I believe in the 1950's, called Candlelight stadium, later there was a drive in at the same location in a very urban neighborhood and there was a small grandstand still at the site at least until sometime in the early 80's.

Candlelite Stadium
River St., Bridgeport, CT
(AKA: Bridgeport Speedway/Candlelight Stadium)
1/5 mile paved oval (6/30/1947 - 1955)
1/10 mile dirt oval (6/03/1951) [Ran Three-Quarter Midgets]
Sold in Jan. 1955 for a drive-in theatre

[jfp711]

ZOOMKITTY, Pretty impressed.. good job you beat me to the post.. later dude I'm booking

[The Bullfather]

Drive-in movies, another thing gone! Ironic that a drive-in would replace a track. With all the Drive-in mostly gone in the U.S.

[Mod134]

Believe it or not, a Long Islander, Roger Bailey won the last race at Candlelite Stadium - a 25-lap Midget race on May 1, 1955. (The Bridgeport Post)

The stadium was actually home to the Bridgeport Bees baseball team. The article mentioned the drive-in theater being ready before July 1st.

The "several hundred" fans that showed up for the race were in the right field bleachers, since part of the stands, including the left-field bleachers, were already demolished.

9 cars started and 6 finished.