Re: USAC Midgets - Tri-County Speedway - 8/11/68
 

Originally Posted by smith19:
this is the track where armstrong and bigelow were caught cheating with the nitro ran through the roll cage. not sure of the year.

That sounds like a prescription for disaster.

Re: USAC Midgets - Tri-County Speedway - 8/11/68
 

Originally Posted by racerjim2:
Saw both dirt and asphalt races there and sprint and midget. Seems like they ran a lot of Saturday afternoon races there. Once saw a midget (maybe Ronnie Duman) flip and threw the driver out onto the track. Scary! I think he broke his hip or something. But it was scary seeing him come out of that car. Also saw some brutle sprint car wrecks there as well.

That might have been one that happened on 4/11/70 Jim and the driver was Bobby Grim. He flipped the midget number 18 on his first time trial lap and, as you say, was thrown out. Very nasty flip. I believe Bobby suffered a broken ankle. 47 cars that day. 40 lap feature was won by Mel Cornett.

Speaking of "brutal sprint car wrecks" one of the worst looking flips I recall was by Dale Breedlove in Jim McElreath's sprinter.

Re: USAC Midgets - Tri-County Speedway - 8/11/68
 

Originally Posted by FishBurger:
That might have been one that happened on 4/11/70 Jim and the driver was Bobby Grim. He flipped the midget number 18 on his first time trial lap and, as you say, was thrown out. Very nasty flip. I believe Bobby suffered a broken ankle. 47 cars that day. 40 lap feature was won by Mel Cornett.

Speaking of "brutal sprint car wrecks" one of the worst looking flips I recall was by Dale Breedlove in Jim McElreath's sprinter.

Fishburger, you are absolutely right on that. It was Bobby Grim and he was qualifying. Those were some good days for the midgets. Big fields and good racing.