The Newark Velodrome that opened in 1911 was the third banked track built on the Vailsburg site — each replacing the last as the sport's ambitions outgrew the available infrastructure. It measured six laps to the mile, or 293 yards per lap, and sat at the northeast corner of South Orange Avenue and Munn Avenue. The steeply banked curves were made of wood, precisely built to let riders carry maximum speed through the turns. A velodrome's wooden surface is both essential and unforgiving — it gives riders grip and resonance under the wheels, but the banking angle and the material make every crash consequential. The Newark track had a seating capacity of 12,500, though the most notable events drew considerably more people than could fit in the seats.

The 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships came to Newark — the global governing body for the sport, the Union Cycliste Internationale, chose the Vailsburg velodrome as its venue. An estimated 20,000 spectators attended the event, nearly 8,000 more than the track's official seating capacity. Among the champions that year was Frank Louis Kramer, who won gold in the professional men's sprint on his home track. Kramer was Newark's cycling hero — a rider of national fame who had won the American sprint championship every year from 1901 to 1916 — and the 1912 world title was both a professional triumph and a local one. In the years that followed, the Australian cyclist Reggie McNamara arrived and set five world records at the Newark track, covering distances from one to 25 miles in record time across 1915, 1916, and 1917.

The Newark Tornadoes of the National Football League played several home games on the velodrome's grassy infield during the 1930 NFL season. Football and bicycle racing shared the same oval — a practical arrangement that was not unusual for the era, when multi-use sports facilities were the norm rather than the exception. The Tornadoes played two games at the velodrome that year, losing both: the Brooklyn Dodgers beat them 14-0 on October 19, and the Staten Island Stapletons won 6-0 a week later. It was not a triumphant season for the franchise, and the velodrome's football chapter was brief. The NFL game itself was still finding its footing in 1930, with teams scattered across small markets that would not sustain professional football for long.

The Newark Velodrome closed in 1930 when its lease expired. On December 4, 1930, it was demolished — the wooden structure dismantled and gone, leaving no trace on the Vailsburg landscape except the corner where it had stood. The site near South Orange Avenue and Munn Avenue is now part of the residential neighborhood, with nothing to mark what happened there. The broader American velodrome culture faded with it; track cycling never recaptured its Gilded Age audiences, and most of the great wooden ovals were demolished as their wooden structures aged and their commercial viability declined. Newark's three-generation run of velodromes on the same site represents a remarkably concentrated chapter in a sport that once commanded the country's sports attention as completely as anything that followed.