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Dick Rathmann led all the way to win the International 200 at Langhorne Speedway (Philadelphia, US), the first NASCAR event open to both domestic and foreign cars

Sunday 21st June 1953

Dick Rathmann led all the way to win the International 200 at Langhorne Speedway (Philadelphia, US), the first NASCAR event open to both domestic and foreign cars. Lloyd Shaw won the pole in a Jaguar. Oldsmobile driver Frank Arford was killed in a qualifying mishap.

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