From Jim Morrison
Here's a very interesting piece on the old Dayton Speedway. I saw racing at the track once, the first time USAC sprints returned there after it reopened in 1976. A guy named Pancho Carter won. One thing I remember is the track had just been repaved and the racing line as very narrow as little pieces of the track were coming up as the new asphalt had not yet cured. The track was so green that radiators at a stock car race a week or two earlier were getting plugged with the pebbles and oil. Getting out of the groove put you in the marbles. Dana Carter, Gary Bettenhausen and, I believe, Jeff Bloom tangled in a heat race with Carter flipping off Bettenhausen after GB started cussing him out.
I remember the photos in the article posted with this story as they were published in "Stand on the Gas." I remember the caption stating about Jim Rigsby simply "He did not survive."
Unfortunately, the track now rests under a landfill.
http://www.autoracing1.com/markc/200...52LaborDay.asp