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Narragansett Park
Fiat Avenue
Cranston, RI 02910

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The footprint is based on a map fragment from 1900 showing the original flat trotter track. It is not certain that the subsequent superspeedway was built on the same footprint.

According to Radbruch, the back stretch corresponded to Fiat Avenue in Cranston.

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Narragansett Trotting Park was the site of the first oval race in the United States on September 7th, 1896. Races were held on the flat dirt oval until 1913. In the meantime, the horse track folded and the site was taken over by the state for use as the Rhode Island State Fairground.

The paved oval was built in 1915. The Super Speedway configuration was extremely novel, as paving and banking were both entirely new concepts in oval track racing. The track was sanctioned by AAA, with a first race on September 18, 1915, which was won by Eddie Rickenbacker. The track operated through 1924. The site is now a housing subdivision.

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