Altamont Motorsports Park
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Altamont Motorsports Park is an motorsports race track located between in Alameda County in Northern California between the towns of Tracy and Livermore. It first opened on July 22, 1966, and has variously operated under the names Altamont Speedway, Altamont Raceway, Altamont Raceway Park, and Altamont Raceway Park and Arena.
As of 2006 it is under new ownership and stages a variety of motorsports events, including Division II Dodge Weekly Series races.
It is most known for its December 1969 hosting (while unused at the time as a racetrack) of the notorious and ill-fated Altamont Free Concert; during a performance by The Rolling Stones, several people were injured and another stabbed to death by members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Track history
- Track history in press release, with interesting treatment of concert
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
- Satellite image from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth
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