MALLETTS BAY RACEWAY

            Once believed to be the first of two different stock car tracks with exactly the same name, Malletts Bay Raceway was, after
all uniquely named. Located off Church Road in Malletts Bay, about here the present Belair Drive now sits, the track was very early - at least 1950. Its first program was on October 7, 1950, and there has been no discernable information after an ambitioujs - looking Oct. 14 ad which, among other things, called for lady drivers. It does not appear to have re -surfaced  in 1951. I would surmise it had too much competition from the likes of the South Burlington Raceway and Colchester Raceway  - all operating at the same time. Running Sunday races behind a Catholic church couldn't have helped much either. [Probably why they chose Saturdays].

       
From Burlington Free Press                                                                 The Burlington Daily News

     
The Burlington Daily News and the Burlington Free Press

The Vermont Sunday News
Apparently they did get a few ladies, but the wording "Girls were scheduled to drive" suggests the track never made it any farther.

The Burlington Free Press
Bert Desmarais, of Johnson poses in this photo - the only known photo of the first Malletts Bay Raceway.
Below is the same item with the caption included. It has almost the only information on races there.

Historic Aerials.com
When I snuck over into Malletts Bay from a 1964 aerial view of north Burlington, I happened on this, the only trace of Malletts Bay Raceway.
it is gone now, obliterated by a housing development, like two of the other tracks in town.

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