In 1921, the first motorcycle races were held on the 1.25-mile board track at Beverly Hills Speedway, California.
Jim Davis won the main event on a Harley-Davidson.
Buildng of the track, the first in the United States to have banked curves, was financed by a group of racers and businessmen calling themselves ‘The Beverly Hills Speedway Syndicate’. They purchased land for the project from a bean farmer for $1,000 an acre.
The wood-board track was built on 275 acres at a cost of $500,000. The track was built support heavy cars, a 70,000-seat grandstand and timing towers. Some race enthusiasts watched from the interior field.
From 1920-1924, the speedway was home to racing automobiles, like the famous Model T, and motorcycles that circled the 60-degree banked track. Because of rapidly increasing real estate values, the Speedway became an uneconomical use of property. The track was torn down in 1924.
