DANBURY -- Growing up around Danbury in the 1950s and 1960s, summer Saturday nights meant one thing for many people, race night at the track where the Danbury Fair mall now stands. "The whole ...

In 1979, at the age of 21 - the minimum age for racers at the Danbury track - he did just that, racing in the modified division, the oldest division in NASCAR and, according to many, the most ...

Jimmy Smith, a Norwalk native who became one of the top drivers of all-time at the old Danbury Fair Racearena, died Sunday in North Carolina after a prolonged illness. He was 71. The 1961 rookie ...

So in 1962, with the help of Charlie Hyatt, a Norwalk mechanic who raced at the old Danbury Fairgrounds, LaJoie obtained a Southern New York Racing Association license. "I had a lot of fun and ...

A new documentary about Paul Newman's offscreen life racing cars is getting its state premiere at the Palace Theatre in Danbury. "Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman" shows how the 1969 drama ...

He’s one of the best to ever race a Modified during the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at New ... I have a son who is 7, Matthew, and a nine-month-old daughter, Violet,” Hirschman ...