Western Speedway is located just outside of Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

, in the All Fun Recreation Park which features go-karts, batting cage

Batting cage

A batting cage is an enclosed cage for baseball players to practice the skill of batting.It is usually made of netting or a chain-link fence and rectangular in shape. A batter stands at one end of the cage, with a pitching machine at the opposing end...

s, and water slides. It is a 4/10-mile (643 meter) paved oval track that was founded in 1954, and it is western Canada's oldest speedway

Oval track

Oval track racing, also known as oval racing, is a form of closed-circuit automobile racing that is contested on an oval-shaped track. An oval track differs from a road course in that the layout resembles an oval with turns in only one direction, almost universally left...

. It is southern Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794...

's prime speedway with its president Darrell Midgley. It will seat up to 3,000 fans park up to 1,500 cars with a season running from March to late October.
Western Speedway hosts mainly stock cars, demo cars/trucks, dwarf cars, drag races, and mini figure 8 cars.

External links

• http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/CAN/BC/Western.html#TrackFacts