Originally Posted by illinisprintfan:
It's definately the San Jose fairgrounds speedway, I recognize the plywood wall/fence. San Jose used to run "super modifieds" that were basically sprints, but with different tail tanks and a few other things. Some of the San Jose guys used to ocassionally bring their cars to Baylands for the sprint shows. I don't remember the wings being so big though.:confused:
A whole host of tracks ran the Supers in northern California. They were more than just sprint cars with wings, although many of the NARC teams would put a wing on and run with the supers (back before NARC ran with wings). They ran on asphalt at the old San Jose track on Tully Road, at Stockton, Roseville and Madera. I believe that they still run at Madera.
When they shut the Tully Road track down, the racing in San Jose shifted down the street to the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.
The "unlimited" supers ran on dirt at West Capital Raceway and later on the "new" dirt in San Jose. Limited supers ran at Hangtown (now Placerville), Chico, and Grass Valley. That was some awesome racing back then.
The supers eventually morphed into winged sprints. Well, at least the ones on dirt did.
One of my favorite websites is the West Capital Raceway nostalgia site. It really takes me back. Lots of pictures from the seventies and even further back. Other local Norcal tracks besides Capital, too.
http://www.westcapitalraceway.com/
