TalkingCARZ "LIVE" @ Meadowdale International Raceway HQ

Steve Tomaszewski CEO of TalkingCarZ and The Soldiers' Family Tv & Radio starts 2016 with the greatest raceway story ever told by the staff, founders, friends of Meadowdale International Raceway Sat. Jan 2nd, 2016.

Call in our show and TALK "LIVE" with Steve Tomaszewski and the MIRPA Staff ,legends and drivers.

Meadowdale International Raceway is located within Raceway Woods near the corners of Route 31 and Huntley Road in the far Northwest Corner of Carpentersville, Illinois. Meadowdale Raceway was a 3.27 mile road course racetrack which opened for its first race on September 14, 1958.  Interestingly, only six months elapsed from the time construction permits were issued until the running of the first race.

Meadowdale Raceways was the dream of Leonard W. Besinger who was a developer of commercial and residential properties in that locale. Leonard's vision was to make the track a destination in the national racing community thereby bringing people to the area to live, work and relax.

Meadowdale Raceways saw the early years of many a car, driver and/or race team. Notable figures from the racing community who raced here include Carl Haas, Roger Penske, Bobby Unser, Al Unser, Lance Reventlow, Augie Pabst, Harry Heuer and the famous and historic Scarabs of the Meister Brauser Racing Team; Fred Lorenzen – first NASCAR driver to win $100,000 in a year; Mark Donahue, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Jim Jeffords and the Nickey Chevrolet Racing Team, Roger Ward, Lloyd Ruby, Curtis Turner, Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Ricardo Rodriguez, Tony DeLorenzo, Tony Adamawicz,  Paul Goldsmith, Gary Nixon, and George Follmer as well as many others.