I liked the mid to late 1960's IMCA races. My all time favorite races were the Hawkeye Futurity Races at the Iowa State Fairgrounds during that time period. Jerry Blundy and Jim Moughan were almost tied together nose to tail one afternoon the entire race and Moughan won at the wire in the Hector Honore Black Duece Bardahl Special(the cars all had names). Single roll bar, no cage. You had to have finesse to win then, just a fast car wasn't enough. Some were brave enough to ride the rim, but it was much more risky then.
You could see the driver working in the car. They usually pitted the cars
just off the front stretch so you could see the activity in the pits.
The tracks in the afternoon would be so hard slick you could see the reflection of the cars. It seemed they went more laps so tire wear and strategy were an element too. It seemed the races were much closer then. Not as fast but still exciting.
I also always liked the 1970's Tony Hulman Classic's at Terre Haute also.
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I would say the late 80's early 90's. ASCOT on Saturday nights where pretty cool. Casey Shuman and I use to steal coffee creamers and make our own small dirt track in turn one while we watched our Dad's. Ron was always the one to beat but Bubby Jones and Noffsinger where a lot of fun to watch as well. Then to come back to Indiana and see Darland"s first yrs and Bob Kinser beat up on all the locals was pretty cool. Running around with My Dad and learning the trick of this trade where some of my favorite days. Now is pretty cool too  |
Those you mentioned were always hard to beat...so was Deano Thompson (real hard to beat) in the Bromme car, Eddie Wirth, Buster Vernard. I was always super impressed with Billy Shuman at Manzanita, as he didn't seem to come to the midwest much as I remember.