Just want to ask how many on here every seen a race a dayton speedway?

been to dayton many times. saw sonny ates set the world record in the Iddings car, saw parnelli, AJ etc and i guess i attended the most races during the larry & gary show era and, for some reason, i remember being impressed with a guy by the name of cy fairchild during the larry & gary era.

I seen many.

Saw Herk sail out into the trees probably about 1960 or 61

I remember the track and the steep rutted drive to the pits.

Rob Hoffman

I started in 1960, when I moved here from Wisconsin, and watched sprint cars and midgets race up to it's closing.

Saw many races there. One of my last memories of the track is when Gary B. set a new qual record of 16 seconds flat in the Ace Nut & Bolt Special (my recall faculties are off more and more so feel free to correct me.)

We mostly stood in the infield and watched.

:crying:Those were the days.:crying:

Oldtimer that I am, I also watched many great races there. My favorite might have been the Jan Opperman win in the Longhorn Racers (or somethin' like that) car. Until then I had thought of Opp as pretty much a "dirt only" guy, not that there is anything wrong with that. :wink Sonny Ates in the Iddings car was breathtakingly fast there. :eek:

Saw several races. In the late '60s we would see a race there. A week later we would watch the same race on TV a week later on Dayton's channel 22.

I seen my first race in 1946! We used to go to all the roaring roadsters on the 1/4 mile and all the big car races! First time i seen lloyd ruby he was driving a midget on the half mile dirt at the bottom of the high banks! A night race!