Editing Loudon Classic (section)

===Dirt track roots===
In 1933, the AMA introduced a new racing category called Class C which featured street-legal motorcycles in an effort to make motorcycle racing less expensive for ordinary motorcyclists.<ref name="The First Sixty Years; An Illustrated History of the American Motorcyclist Association">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_kDAAAAMBAJ&q=1972+american+motorcyclist+motocross+rules+book&pg=PA34 |title=The First Sixty Years; An Illustrated History of the American Motorcyclist Association |date=January 1984 |work=American Motorcyclist |access-date=1 January 2011 |last1=Assoc |first1=American Motorcyclist }}</ref> Street-legal motorcycles were known at the time as touring motorcycles hence, a tourist trophy (TT) signified a race classification for street-legal motorcycles.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/sports/Tourist-Trophy-races |title=Tourist Trophy races |publisher=britannica.com |access-date=13 March 2022 }}</ref> Informal motorcycle racing had occurred at previous Weirs Beach rallies however, the first race formally sanctioned by the [[American Motorcyclist Association]] (AMA), occurred in 1934 when, a {{convert|200|mi|km|adj=on}} dirt track TT race for Class C motorcycles was held on a 3.3 mile track in [[Swanzey, New Hampshire]] that used partially paved and unimproved gravel roads, up and down gently rolling hills.<ref name="Laconia 1971">{{citation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=W_cDAAAAMBAJ&dq=history+of+the+laconia+classic+american+motorcyclist&pg=PA42 |pages= 42&ndash;45 |last= Youngblood |first= Ed |title=Laconia 1971 |magazine=[[American Motorcyclist]] |publisher=[[American Motorcyclist Association]] |location=[[Westerville, Ohio]] | date= August 1971 |volume= 25 |issue= 8 |issn=0277-9358 |accessdate= 2022-03-11 }}</ref> Local rider Babe Tancrede won the inaugural Laconia Classic riding a [[Harley-Davidson]].<ref name="Archives: The Loudon Classic"/><ref name="Archives: The Origins of the Laconia Classic"/>