Indiana Open Wheel - View Single Post - The biggest Kokomo crowd

Russ (Offline)
#10 4/10/21 6:07 PM

Originally Posted by flagboy55:
Well ladies and gentlemen, I have to say, I was part of a historical event last night at the wonderful Kokomo Speedway. I don’t know what the capacity is at this venue but looked to this observer that the amount of people exceeded that and then some. I’ve been going to Kokomo since the middle 70’s when we stopped there for the first time on the way home from a USAC race at New Bremen or Winchester. I haven’t seen all the big races there but I have seen some big one’s, but nothing like this. We always park along Davis road to the north of the track and last October cars were parked almost to the first intersection. Well last night cars were parked well north of the crossroad. The beer cooler was empty a good portion of the time as we joked that they were probably out robbing liquor stores for product not cash as they kept rolling it in dolly by dolly. As always Kokomo did not disappoint with fantastic racing as always. Hopefully we can duplicate this when USAC comes to town

I've been going to Kokomo since the 1960's and it was definitely the biggest crowd I've ever seen there.

I'm not sure if it would be the biggest ever or not. There was at one time grandstands completely around the outside of the track. I've heard stories about midget shows in the 1950's when these grandstands were completely packed. They also used to allow spectators in the infield too. I can remember as a kid many times watching guys scatter as a spinning car chased them across the infield.

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