Where was your first race you attended, and —--
 

Where was your first race you attended that you can remember, and it can be any form of Motorsports.


Where?

How old were you?

What race car driver do you remember or that might be famous in the racing world?


Mine ?


Kansas City's Riverside Speedway

5 years old

Some guy named Kenny Weld

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Firebird Raceway Dirt Track - Phoenix

25 years old

Brent Kaeding

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Harmony Speedway in Harmony, NJ, a 5/8 mile dirt D-shaped oval. The year was 1964 and I was nine at the time. Have been going every since. Frankie Schneider was one of the Eastern modified drivers that ran there.


Bruce Eckel

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Harmony Speedway in Harmony, NJ, a 5/8 mile dirt D-shaped oval. The year was 1964 and I was nine at the time. Have been going every since. Frankie Schneider was one of the Eastern modified drivers that ran there.


Bruce Eckel

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1966 Eldora Speedway USAC Sprints Arnie Knepper won my favorite car and driver from that day was Ronnie Duman driving Carl Forbergs #12

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Capitol Beach Speedway, Lincoln, Nebraska

Gordie Shuck was the winner.

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FALL 1984

Age - 2 1/2 -3

First 2 Races - Southlake Speedway (Crown Point, Indiana) & Kankakee Speedway (Kankakee, Illinois)

Limited Late Model Division - #78 Mike Hollifield (Buzzard Race Cars - Wheeler, Indiana)

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Reading Fairgrounds 1974

Real Big Block Modifieds

Favorite car Gerald Chamberlain #76

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Sportsman's Speedway in Marshall, Missouri. 1956, I was a baby.

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Winter 1949-1950. Not sure if it was Dec. or Jan. I was 3. AAA midgets indoors Chicago Int'l Amphitheatre. The only driver I remember for sure was Eddie Russo, a Marine Corp buddy of my dad from WW2. When Dad announced we were going to see some midget races, Mom thought we were going to a track meet for little people!

1967 or 68
11 or 12

Mazon Speed Bowl, Mazon, IL
Ray Young & Lee Schuler

Fairbury, IL
Larry "Boom Boom" Cannon - Super modifieds called rails
Jack Tyne - 8-cylinder stock cars

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Broadway Speedway Crown Point In. Circa 1959. Bob Hollifield, Larry Cope, Danny Gluth, Whitey X, Bob and George Hatch, Carel Russell etc

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1966 - Shangri-la Speedway, Owego NY. Pavement track. Modified stock cars.

Six months old. Much too young to remember anything.

Drivers who raced at this track back then that might be familiar to some: Dutch Hoag and Lee Osborne. Possibly Jim Shampine.

Fall of 1964, 200 lap supermodified race. I was not yet 10 years old.

Tri-State Speedway, Haubstadt, IN.

I have no idea who won, but I do remember hearing the names Kinser, Gaines and Gilstrap, guys that would soon become my heroes

I don’t know specifically but here’s what I can attest to. It had to be 69 or 70, but could be earlier. I’m sure of this because I remember my Dad making it clear we got to watch the legend Bob Tatersall. His last year was 70. This was at Santa Fe. I would’ve been 7 or 8 at the time. Probably my favorite then was Mel Kenyon

Holland Speedway in NY. 1967 which was the last year it was dirt. I was 12 and my favorites were Pete Tingue and Speedy Greco. The hook was set.

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Winchester Speedway for the USAC sprints the summer of '63. I was only 3 and Dad said nobody could believe I slept through the feature with the Offys under the covered grandstand. Hasn't happened since.

MC, I remember a couple of those names. A little before my time but I heard of them

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my first race was Millstream Speedway Findlay Ohio 1955 racing modified coupes I was 6 years old Gordon Dukes and Bobby Bohan were the top drivers . SAW MY FIRST USAC SPRINT CAR RACE AT NEW BREMEN OHIO DIRT IN 1961 . A.J. FOYT RACED AND GOT HIS AUTOGRAPH THAT DAY.

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I am enjoying reading everyone’s recollections.

The first race that I can remember attending was the 1970 USAC champ car race at the old California State Fairgrounds in Sacramento. Al Unser won in the Johnny Lightning car. A few months later, I got a Johnny Lightning set for Christmas.

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March 18, 1978
Devils Bowl Speedway - Mesquite TX

You know the rest.

My dad and family friend (Spike Spiess) had been going/taking me before that, but this one definitely is ink the memory bank.

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Terry,

I’ve been told this story since I was a kid at 12yrs old, and just repeated it as it was what I was told. Do you know anything about it?

The year before your Devils Bowl comment above, 1977 —--- Ted Johnson ran 6 test or precursor races at various tracks to see if the WoO traveling sprint car series would work. I was always told by my elders that I watched one of those races at the old Joplin speedway on Rangeline road. I don’t really remember many names but I do remember seeing and hearing about Ferkel, McSpadden and a Kinser. If I remember correctly, Joplin speedway did not race sprint cars on a regular basis.

Do you or anyone on here know anything about that?