{"id":172936,"date":"2026-03-23T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=172936"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:08:19","slug":"road-america-1956-nascar-and-scca-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/road-america-1956-nascar-and-scca-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Road America 1956 NASCAR and SCCA events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_172862\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Road-America-Nascar-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172862\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Road-America-Nascar-1-1024x665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"665\" class=\"size-large wp-image-172862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Road-America-Nascar-1-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Road-America-Nascar-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Road-America-Nascar-1-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Road-America-Nascar-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-172862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Goldsmith took the Jag MK VII to victory in the under 3.5 liter race. Photo courtesy of Bernie Silverberg Collection,<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story by Bob Birmingham<br \/>\nPhotos by Glen Glendenning unless otherwise noted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NASCAR at Road America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the weekend of August 11-12, 1956 a NASCAR group of mostly good \u2018ol southern boys took to Road America in two events. On Saturday a 100 mile race for European and American cars under 3.5 liters and Sunday the 250 mile feature for American made stock cars.  Saturday\u2019s grid had a mixture of small European sedans, an American Studebaker and one Jaguar VII Saloon, the latter driven to victory by NASCAR\u2019s Paul Goldsmith. <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F172936\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Bob Birmingham Photos by Glen Glendenning unless otherwise noted NASCAR at Road America On the weekend of August 11-12, 1956 a NASCAR group of mostly good \u2018ol southern boys took to Road America in two events. On Saturday a 100 mile race for European and American cars under 3.5 liters and Sunday the... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F172936\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[13551,1518,13541,13552,13544,369,13542,7488,13549,13547,13548,307,13543,1513,13546,13545,13540,13550],"class_list":{"0":"post-172936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-united-states","7":"tag-abarth-207a","8":"tag-carroll-shelby","9":"tag-clif-tufte","10":"tag-driven-by-max-goldman","11":"tag-ed-crawford-porsche","12":"tag-elkhart-lake","13":"tag-glen-glendenning-photo","14":"tag-lance-reventlow","15":"tag-lee-petty","16":"tag-nascar-at-road-america","17":"tag-paul-goldsmith-race-driver","18":"tag-phil-hill","19":"tag-rees-makin-osca","20":"tag-road-america","21":"tag-road-america-1955","22":"tag-road-america-beginning","23":"tag-robert-birmingham","24":"tag-tim-flock","25":"pmpro-level-required","26":"pmpro-level-1","27":"pmpro-no-access","28":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172946,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172936\/revisions\/172946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}