Western Speedway

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Westshore Motorsports Park (formerly “Western Speedway”) was a race track located just outside Victoria, British Columbia on southern Vancouver Island. It was a 4/10-mile (643 meter) paved oval track founded in 1954 and was western Canada’s oldest speedway until its closure in September 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-04 |title='We're all going to miss it': Crowds gather for Langford's final Race Car Parade |url=https://www.cheknews.ca/were-all-going-to-miss-it-crowds-gather-for-langfords-final-race-car-parade-1085623/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240728195607/https://www.cheknews.ca/were-all-going-to-miss-it-crowds-gather-for-langfords-final-race-car-parade-1085623/ |archive-date=2024-07-28 |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=CHEK |language=en-CA}} The track was able to seat up to 3,000 fans and park up to 1,500 cars with a season running from April to September. The speedway hosted stock cars, late models, Old Time Racing Association, sprint cars winged and non-winged, demo cars/trucks, dwarf cars, drag races, mini figure eight cars, monster trucks, and more.

The track hosted 9 NASCAR Winston West Series events between 1970 and 1982 and 10 NASCAR Northwest Series races between 1986 and 1989.

The track also hosted 2 CASCAR West Series races in 2001 and 2002.{{cite web |title=Western Speedway |url=https://www.racing-reference.info/tracks/Western_Speedway/ |website=Racing Reference |publisher=NASCAR Digital Media |access-date=1 November 2023}}