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Hogan,
I tend to agree with you about paperclip tracks - but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and take a wild guess that you didn't see many races at Ascot. The surface there made the whole difference. Because it was sooo sticky, the paperclip really worked there. In fact, it kind of created a driving style that I really have not seen anywhere else. How many paper clip half miles have you been to where the fast way around is to pitch the thing full-lock-sideways-and-STAND-on-it, at the flagstand? And speaking of passing, to this day I have not seen a place where you could square it off like Ascot. We're talking about guys going to the wall between 1&2 then cutting down to the berm off 2 with both wheels up, and this was all back before the tires got to be what they are now.
I'll say it this way... never been anywhere else where the clay would suck the shoes right off your feet, at the END of the night.
Certainly not puttin' down any of the other tracks mentioned here. It was very special for me to finally see Terre Haute and several of the other tracks mentioned on this thread. But Ascot during that golden period had a combination of shape, surface, tires and talent that I just don't think will ever be topped.
But, I'm gonna keep looking!
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