[1950s HOME MOVIE WATKINS GLEN ROAD RACE DIX, NEW YORK]

Genre: home movie

Description: This amateur shot home movie shows a road race circa 1956 (date based on the 1956 Oldsmobile 88 Holiday that appears at 11:45 of the film). The competitors include Jaguars, Allards, Ferraris, Porsches, Austin-Healeys and other makes. This is apparently at Watkins Glen, now Watkins Glen International. If so, and if shot in 1956, this shows the first permanent course, known as the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course. This was constructed on 550 acres (2.2 km2), overlapping part of the previous street course. Designed by Bill Milliken and engineering professors from Cornell University, the 2.350-mile (3.782 km) layout was used from 1956 to 1970.

Watkins Glen International, nicknamed "The Glen", is an automobile race track in the northeastern United States, located in Dix, New York, just southwest of the village of Watkins Glen for which it is named, at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. It is long known around the world as the former home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix, which it hosted for twenty consecutive years (1961–1980). In addition, the site has also been home to road racing of nearly every class, including the World Sportscar Championship, Trans-Am, Can-Am, NASCAR, the International Motor Sports Association, and the IndyCar Series. The facility is currently owned by NASCAR.