As my celebration of another lap around the sun is less than a month away, putting me into the officially old category, my memory is just worn out at this point. But through the fog of time I would say my first sprint car race would’ve been ‘67 or 8. It would’ve been an IMCA race in or around Charleston Illinois. I don’t remember details other than Dad pointing out the great Gordon Woolly. I don’t swear to my memory being accurate, but the way I do remember it, it was awesome. I did enough research to find Gordon was racing sprint cars in that time period so I’ll go with that. Charleston Illinois is even more important to my families racing heritage, as it’s the “where it began” for us. My Grandfather and his two brothers built and operated what was Coles County Speedway there which ran midgets every week with some of the great’s of the sport racing there like Lloyd Ruby and others. However the sprint car race I remember was not at the track Grampa built which is kinda a shame. It was already gone by the time I came along