45 years later, Cocopah Speedway still the ideal place to race
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Dirt track stock cars motor around then-Yuma Speedway in 1968 when the oval located in Somerton opened for its first season of racing. The track was built by the late Frank Golden.
Photo courtesy of Dick Rautenberg
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45 years later, Cocopah Speedway still the ideal place to race.
On a warm day in the spring of 1967, Frank Golden walked through deep desert sand to take a position on the edge of the Yuma Mesa south of Yuma. There, he gazed out over the pristine Yuma Valley that lay before him, green with vegetable fields ready to be harvested.
He turned to the frien. Read 45 years later, Cocopah Speedway still the ideal place to race...
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