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Re: What track did you grow up going to?
Dad started taking me to the races in Jacksonville as soon as I was potty trained. We spent many Friday nights there. He started taking me around to other races a couple years after that. I remember my first WoO race in Pevely when I was real young. It rained and we almost left but I begged to stay and they got the race in but by the time we got home from the race it was getting light. I was hooked on sprint cars from a young age and I was able to spend a lot of time with my dad going to races and still do. I think sprint cars are a big reason why I am close with my dad.
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Mt. Lawn speedway weekly . Some a Indianapolis raceway park and Winchester Thursday night thunder shows. When I was growing up. Then a good friend of mine took me to a dirt sprint car race at gas city then the next night at Lawrenceburg. After those two nights of racing I figured out that asphalt was to drive to the track on and dirt was to race on! Thanks for getting me hooked Bob!
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Attn.Nathan 1012 Broadway Speedway early Sixtys I remember Bob Hollifields 47 Packard&62 Pontiac conv Larry Copes blue 80 Whitey Exs 3 also the Hatches orange and black Fords
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Flat Rock Speedway south of Detroit with my parents every Saturday night and then onto Toledo Speedway every Sunday. Fond memories that I would not trade for anything in the world.
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Riverside Intr. Raceway , Ascot , Orange Show Speedway , 605, Ontario Motor Speedway Got to grow up around bout every form of racing, paved short to super speedways, dirt tracks , road courses & witnessed everything from Bombers to Sprints to NastyCar to Indy Car to F1 before I went to kindergarten, Thanks Pops for showing me a very diverse racing background !
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Unlike most of the above, my parents had no interest in cars or racing. When I was 14, there was a loud engine running in the field behind our house. It was three local lads, about 5-6 years older with what I soon learned was a dirt modified. I started "helping" them. I soon talked my father into taking me to the closest local track, the Dracut (MA) Speedway. They ran "cut-downs" (early supermodifieds made by chopping, channeling and narrowing early coupes), but the first night turned out to have an added attraction ... the 3rd race of the newly-formed Northeastern Midget Assn!
About midseason, the dirt modified owner asked if I wanted to go with them to the Cheshire Fairgrounds, outside of Keene, NH. Of course, I went. For the next 6 years, it was Keene on Thursdays, the Rhythm Inn Speedway in Miller's Falls, MA on Fridays, and occasionally Claremont (NH) Speedway on Saturday. In '59 we ran Stafford Springs, CT (then dirt). That winter, we built a sprint car (from scratch) with which we ran URC for the next 3-4 years. As with my parents, our kids have little interest in racing. My wife thinks I killed it by taking them to too many races while I was president of NEMA. Unlike the parents you see streaming out of the track when it goes too late, I always had to stay to the end, and they grew to dislike it. Oh, well, that's how it goes. |
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I grew up at Kokomo Speedway. Bill Lipkey promoted the place and they ran a cross between sprints and super mods when I first remember going. I can remember a few seasons when they ran wings in the early 70's. Big heavy plywood wings. Then sprint cars took over for good. I remember watching USAC midgets when about half the cars had roll cages. I had seen weekly cars flip and I remember that being pretty scary. When I was in first grade they had a 2 day ASA sprint show, and I remember 2 things about it. One was it was the first and last time I saw a rear engine sprint car race. The other was my student teacher from school was the trophy girl. Later on in the 70's before the world of outlaws, Bob Deshamps one of the founders of ASA would rent the track for a sprint only show on a Wednesday night. I remember seeing Sammy and Steve for the first time at those shows. I asked Bob Kinser several years ago about Steve flipping out of the park that night, and he told me it was his third or fourth race. All the old people said Steve was just racing because of his Dad's name and would never amount to anything. Guess they missed that one. Later on saw a couple of wingless World of Outlaw races, and the first USAC sprint race ever on a track smaller than a half mile. Once the track went to pure sprint cars, I was lucky as weekly shows were always wingless. I worked for Kent Evans when he had the track.It was quite a thrill the first time circling the track in the water truck, or taking the fast qualifier around the track in the pace truck.Looking back I saw some cool things and some great drivers, and happy to say things are probably even better now.
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