jjones752 (Offline)
#11
5/7/13 5:43 PM
Back in the glory days of Ascot, they ran off-road races on the motorcycle TT track which ran up the frontstretch and around turns 1 & 2 of the half-mile through a gap in the wall around 2 & 1 of the 1/4 mile, over the TT jump then around 4 & 3 of the quarter, out a gate about halfway down the backstretch back out onto the half and through 3 & 4 to the finish. Brought out a lot of names; the Mears Gang, Bob Gordon (Robbie's dad), possibly the Johnson's (can't remember for sure) and a couple of no-name actors, Garner and McQueen. Pretty good show. Not Sprint Cars or Midgets, but Aggie ran a little something for everybody; Flat Track on Fridays, Sprinters Saturday nights, Super Mods or Figure 8's on Sunday (on the Tee-Vee for a lot of years), and Motocross, Offroad, TT bikes, Speedway and just about anything else you could think of during the week. It was racing. It was all good.