While Columbia Speedway was shut down to cars in 1979, noise complaints, it reopened as a velodrome in 2001.
[2][3] The race took an hour and thirty-one minutes to decide that David Pearson defeated Paul Goldsmith by a margin of one car length (less than one lap[2]).
[3] Buck Baker and Tiny Lund failed to collect any winnings from this race.
[7] The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade.
Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.