Blackhawk Farms Raceway
Blackhawk Farms Raceway
— South Beloit, Illinois
Blackhawk Farms Raceway is a 1.95-mile road course located near South Beloit in northern Illinois. Club, professional, and spectator events are held at Blackhawk; the track is in use nearly every weekend from May through October; in addition to SCCA and Midwestern Council sports car races, other automobiles, karts, and motorcycles are raced here, and vintage, solo, and marque club events are also frequently scheduled.
Historical Notes
Blackhawk Farms Raceway was designed and built by Tito Nappi, a Corvette driver and local contractor, with the first race held in 1967. Blackhawk was a non-spectator Club course for many years, with excellent and locally-renowned competitor facilities, and has always been popular because of its location about a hundred miles from both the Chicago and Milwaukee hotbeds of sports-car racing.The Irwin brothers purchased Blackhawk Farms in 1986; they have made a minor change to the track layout and have upgraded the competitor facilities even further, and have added spectator facilities. Professional and spectator events are now held at Blackhawk.
As the population of the Beloit/South Beloit/Rockton area has increased over time, there have been more homes and churches built in the surrounding area which was very thinly populated when the track was new. This has presented Blackhawk with increasing noise problems; the track management is aggressively pursuing substantially reduced noise limits to remain on friendly terms with its neighbors.
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