Look at the crowd!! What a time to be a dirt champ fan!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qL5ZitM_4

heres another neat video from 1982.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eitO5aDcJgY

That brings back some great memories. Thank you so much for posting them!

Couple of things......

1)The field was 18 cars. Not fast enough.....Too bad. Go home and try again next time. Now people complain that 26 isn't enough and can't believe that there isn't a non-qualifer.

2)Cushion was a nice brown, but everyone ran on the pole in the black. Not saying the top wouldn't come in, but had to be willing to run there like Springfield last week. The top would have came in if everyone ran there.


One of the things that hurts the sport today is that it is compared to it's past. Saying it isn't as good and so forth, but it is still very similar. Difference is that there aren't as many "Heros" today. That is probably a result of not having the connection to the Speedway, but todays racer just doesn't have that movie star attraction to them today as they did then.

The cars aren't near as beautiful today either.(My opinion)

Love seeing the old stuff, but we live in the here and now and that isn't so bad either.

Also.....watch the commercials and hear what they are saying. 40 years later and close your eyes and some is the same thing being said.

The crowds just blow my mind...Fun to watch I wish they had the whole deal on youtube.What about the T.V coverage..WOW..the entire show was aired!!!!! GOOD STUFF!!

I attended the first Hoosier Hundred and as a child and have not missed many since then. I agree totally with Leaders Edge comments, well said.

Don Warnock

54 cars at S'field in '82 - wow

I'd love to find the full hour of that show

A couple of guys did start running higher at Springfield, Hagar was one as was his team mate. Soon as that happened, out came the dumptrucks to kill that.

And no dust in the footage from the 70 race......hmmmm, how did they do that?

Good point Steve...How did they do that?? Leaders Edge is on the money!!!! Watch what they dump on the track in this video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Ls4oNeNhw

Yeah, liquid calcium was standard proceedure on dirt track prep......some of the black farm dirt tracks used to use banana oil also.
And all that action and good racing was done with what Superduke........305 Steel Blocks, right? Awesome. Going to Terre Haute in the early and mid 70's on a Sunday afternoon was an event each time.