In 1936 Daytona Beach officials asked local racer Sig
Haugdahl to organize and promote a beach race. Haugdahl is credited for designing the beach road course track. The city posted a $5,000 purse.The ticket-takers arrived at the event on March 8 to find thousands of fans already at the course. The city lost a reported $22,000, on the event and has not promoted an event since.
Haugdahl talked with fellow racer Bill France, and they talked the Daytona Beach Elks Club into hosting another event in 1937. The event was more successful, but still lost money. France took over the job of running the course in 1938.
By 1953, France knew it was time for a permanent track to hold the large crowds that were gathering. On April 4, 1953, France proposed a new super speedway called Daytona International Speedway.. France began building a new 2.5-mile (4.0 km) superspeedway in 1956 to host the new premiere event of the series – the Daytona 500. In 1958, the Daytona Beach road course hosted its last event.
The beach road course course started on the pavement of highway A1A at 4511 South Atlantic Avenue, Ponce Inlet. It went south two miles parallel to the ocean on A1A to the end of the road. Here the drivers accessed the beach at the south turn at the Beach Street approach and returned two miles north on the sandy beach returning to A1A at the north turn. The lap length in early events was 3.2 miles, and it was lengthened to 4.2 miles in the late 1940s.
While at GZ for this cache you will be standing on the exact location of the north turn of the famous beach road course. You are searching for a small cammo'd match stick container. BOYP