What are 5 rules for boardtrack racing?

Question

Board track racing doese not excist anymore I just need to know for a School report. So if you can give me some that would be great thanks

Answer 1

Well said Barry M.

The asker could have Googled the answer for him self, but the youth of today want the moon on a stick !

Also [ to the asker ] "doese" is " does ".

Maybe that could be your new school report, spelling 4 letter work correctly.

Answer 2

Barry pretty much covered it. There no real rules per se though. They kept increasing the angle of the turns to get more speed, but the higher the banking and speed the higher the fatality rate to the spectators. With banking reaching 60 degrees the bikes would literally launch out of the turn into the crowd killing many people.

Answer 3

is this a form of motorcycle racing?

Answer 4

Board track, or motordrome, racing was a type of motorsport, popular in the United States between the second and third decades of the 20th century, where competition was conducted on oval race courses with surfaces composed of wooden planks. Although the tracks most often used motorcycles, many different types of racing automobiles also competed, enough so as to see the majority of the 1920s American national championship races contested at such venues.

Although by the early 1930s, board track racing had fallen out of favor, and into eventual obsolescence, due to both its perceived dangers and the high cost of maintenance of the wooden racing surfaces, several of its most notable aspects, including both a technical emphasis on raw speed produced by the steep inclinations, ample track width to allow steady overtaking between competitors, and the development of extensive grandstands surrounding many of the courses, have maintained an influence on American motorsports philosophy to the present day.

The first board track opened at the Los Angeles Coliseum Motordome near Playa del Rey, California, on April 8, 1910.[1] Based on and utilizing the same technology as the French velodromes used for bicycle races, the track and others like it were created with 2 inch x 4 inch boards, and banked up to 45°, and some venues, such as Fulford-by-the-Sea and Culver City, boasting unconfirmed higher bankings of 50° or more.[2] Around a half dozen tracks up to two miles long had opened by 1915. By 1931 there were 24 operating board tracks, including tracks in Beverly Hills, California, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York.[1] The board tracks popped up because of the ease to construct a track and the low cost of lumber.

The banking in the corners of board tracks started at 25° in 1911, like bicycles tracks were.[3] The banking was increased until 60° was common.[3] The effect of the banking was higher cornering speed and higher G-force on drivers. Fans sat on the top of the track looking down at the racers. When a driver lost control of a racecar in a corner, he could slip up off the track and into the crowd. An incident often killed a half-dozen competitors and spectators at a time.[4] On September 8, 1912, Eddie Hasha was killed at the New Jersey Motordome near Atlantic City. The accident killed 4 boys and injuried 10 more people. The deaths made the front page of the New York Times. The press started calling the short 1/4 and 1/3 mile circuits "murderdromes".[3] The 1913 motorcycle championship races were moved to a dirt track because dirt was safer. Board tracks slowly faded away by the 1920s and 1930s. Notable driver fatalities on board tracks included some four Indianapolis 500 winners, three of which occuring at the Altoona course in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and three in the same years as winning Indianapolis. 1919 "500" winner Howdy Wilcox died in an Altoona race on September 4, 1923, while co-1924 and 1929 winners Joe Boyer and Ray Keech both suffered fatal accidents at the facility in the same years as their 500 wins; Keech's, occuring only seventeen days after, on June 15, 1929. Gaston Chevrolet, winner of the 1920 Indianapolis 500, perished that same autumn, on November 25, 1920, at a Thanksgiving Day race at the Beverly Hills Speedway.[5]

Another contributor to the demise of board tracks was the expensive upkeep. Tracks needed new 2x4 boards every five years. During the last decade of board tracks, carpenters would repair the track from below after the cars raced down the straightaways at 120 miles per hour. [1]