The Slinger Speedway (formerly Slinger Super Speedway) is a quarter mile paved oval automobile race track with a 33-degree bank located in Slinger, Wisconsin.
The track is billed as "The World's Fastest Quarter Mile Oval." The current track record was set by Jeff Bloom in a 410 Extreme Winged Sprint Car on August 21, 2010 at a time of 9.908 seconds. This is the first lap record under 10 seconds on a quarter mile oval track of any type, breaking Anderson Speedway's 10.28 second lap record. Bloom's lap eclipsed the track record set by USAC midget car driver Tracy Hines on May 17, 2008 at an elapsed time of 10.845 seconds. The lap was the fastest ever midget car lap on an asphalt quarter mile track. He eclipsed the long standing mark of 11.095 seconds set by Tony Strupp's late model on June 12, 1994.
Read more about Slinger Speedway: Track History, Weekly Divisions, Slinger Nationals
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“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)