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The valley's ovals are all somebody else's, and they print here at boundary size so the negative stands documented rather than bare. West, on South Bend ground, Playland Park added its track in 1916 on the local record — the park whose grandstand had served the fair's horse racing — and on 20 July 1952 the Frontier Park Speedway there hosted the only NASCAR Grand National race the area has held, won by Tim Flock; the Motor Sport database carries a divergent "Frontier Park" entry for that race, a conflict the South Bend file prints. South Bend Motor Speedway, a quarter-mile built in 1946 on State Road 2 west of Mayflower Road, also stands on South Bend ground; a "Last Lap" farewell was reported in 2024, but the Sauer family still owns the plant, it races a limited schedule in 2026, and the property stands listed for sale as land. East, the strip the valley's drag racers used was Osceola Dragway, on Elkhart County ground, 1957 to 2020, closed — Mishawaka's connection to it is the one the record actually holds: Mishawaka hotels housed its event crowds, which is a lodging fact, not a track. The county's karting ground, Michiana Raceway Park, stands at North Liberty. Mishawaka ground itself: nothing, in any record, in any era — no oval, no strip, no course.
- The track test on Mishawaka ground: no result in any record reached
- Playland Park / Frontier Park Speedway and the Grand National of 20 July 1952: the South Bend history's racing file, which prints the divergent database entry
- South Bend Motor Speedway — 1946, the reported 2024 farewell, the Sauers' continued ownership, the limited 2026 schedule, the land listing: the speedway's published record as carried in reference compilations, checked November 2026
- Osceola Dragway, 1957–2020, and the Mishawaka hotel connection: the track's record and the valley's lodging record