Lumpy
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This is my brother back in the mid 80's. Share whatcha got...
...All I’ve got is ...Ascot was relatively close to where I lived on my so-called yacht... standing in the corner of turn one you were sure to get splattered with mud… Nothing but fun...
...Guy I worked with/for...making movies for television ...Eddie Wirth...as far as I know he still held the one lap record for unwinged sprints when the track closed???...
This! My brother and I would wear safety goggles and sit near the front and see how much clay wound stick to us. I remember many good times there with my parentsGetting hit by the clay in turn one.
Going around the track after the races and collecting the clear tear-aways from the helmets. Getting the drivers to sign the program. Good times as a kid.
Getting hit by the clay in turn one.
Going around the track after the races and collecting the clear tear-aways from the helmets. Getting the drivers to sign the program. Good times as a kid.
We would race corona Friday nite and Deanza sundaysI used to race there as a kid. It was Ascot and DeAnza east of Moreno Valley.
Daaayum....jackrabbit....thems my old stopping grounds...lol.Practice at jackrabbit hills down the street from ascot, currently porsche track. View attachment 991652 View attachment 991654
Went once as a kid with my step mother. She somehow knew one of the drivers of the sprint car and I got to meet him after the race. Thinking this was mid to late seventies. Don’t remember his name or even if he was a good driver.
The one thing I will never forget was he was missing a hand and had a hook instead. Story was he rolled the sprint car and crushed the hand so badly between the car and track that it was amputated. Still managed to wheel the sprint car around the track with a hook and one hand.
Thanks, was hoping someone might know his name here.Tony Simon...he won a bunch of races after he lost his hand.
I use to ride there from Torrance high, take RR tracks to Normandie and then ride dirt( currently new million dollar homes)all the way down. There was a track behind t-flats also or go the other way behind mobile refinery was the PIT great little track!Daaayum....jackrabbit....thems my old stopping grounds...lol.
I still have my first trophy ever from there. I believe it was 85/86 ish
...All I’ve got is ...Ascot was relatively close to where I lived on my so-called yacht... standing in the corner of turn one you were sure to get splattered with mud… Nothing but fun...
...Guy I worked with/for...making movies for television ...Eddie Wirth...as far as I know he still held the one lap record for unwinged sprints when the track closed???...
Eddie Wirth was a gasser...
Guy was fearless. View attachment 991668
One of my favorites from back in the day
I used to kick ass at the slick track go-carts
...Who was the unwinged sprint guy that used to win a ton of races and held the track record for quite a while...was it Bubby Jones???...
Billy Boat holds the track record and the only driver to ever break into the 16 seconds lap time.
My whole family is Glaziers so we use to do some work for dean Thompson he owned a glass shop, he could get around the half mile pretty good in a Sprinter. My favorite there was flat track and TT, Kenny and the boys. Speedway was also good there for awhile.
If I remember right, that was on closing night?
My favorite place on earth as a kid. Anybody remember the Sprint Buggies on Thursday nights? James Gardner, Rick and Roger Mears, Doug Fortin Sr., etc. My earliest memories, parents said I was 3 years old. My Dad's buggy club got invited to drive around the track during intermission. I rode in the passenger seat of his tunnel buggy, and I remember cruising over the TT jump, and at that exact moment I knew I was going to drive racecars someday! Never forget it. Remember sitting in the stands, while all the kids played under the bleachers, watching every lap from hot laps to the main events. Got my drivers license, and spent almost every Fri and Saturday nights there. Raced 3 wheelers and quads. I remember walking the track after the main event on closing night and crying, it was where I grew up, but never got to wheel a car around the 1/2 mile like I had dreamed about. Pried off a 24" piece of wood out of the fence that perfectly had black and white paint on it. I'll have to try to find it, along with the final program and a flag I bought that last night of racing. Make me a little shrine in honor of this awesome place...
My daughter got me this mouse pad for Christmas.
Great memories, thanks for starting this thread!