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With Christmas around the corner what was your best memory as a Child? I will start. Mine had to be when I was about 10 years old and my 8 year old brother and I and my Dad went to Eldora and got to see the ALMS guys run over Labor Day but one special memory was earlier that year at a Family Fun Night getting to meet Jack Hewitt. My dad took us to alot of races and we went to ARCA races and all over. Sounds funny but when I think of times with my Dad at the track it brings back warm memories and now I am making memories with my son.
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I have a ton as my uncle was a very successful dirt racer in the Southeast and my dad was his crewchief and also worked for Ray Fox on his Cup team! I have many memories of being at dirt tracks and in the pits at Cup races!
But my fondest memory is standing in the flagstand at Ocala Speedway, with my dad, as he was the flagman at that time. -
My very first race was as a 9 year old. I went to Langhorne Speedway in 1968 with my Father, Uncle and cousins to see the Indy Cars race. The highlight was going in the pits after the races, and sitting in Bobby Unser's #3 which weeks earlier had won The Indianapolis 500....fell in love with racing that day and have been going every since.Comment
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The first time I was ever at SDW in Syracuse as a child. I was 11 or 12, and I was simply in awe.Comment
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I don't even remember my first race, but just about anytime I got to go as a child it was great, if my folks didn't take me, I had an uncle who did. For the next several days after going to the race me and my friends would find a place to race our bikes pretending to be stock car racers. Who didn't do that?
The first time I went to the Milwaukee Mile was memorable. It was during the Wis State Fair so the atmosphere was great for a kid. When I got in the grandstands and seen the size of the track I thought the place was huge. My frame of reference at the time was 1/3 and 1/4 mile tracks. I still remember Ramo Stott winning that USAC race.Political correctness,...is the inability to speak the truth about the obvious.Comment
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Ascot Park as far as dirt goes, place was epic.
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1983, I was 4 years old, The first time I saw a wedge era late model come over the banking onto the track I was hooked.Comment
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the old track in springfield mo watching larry phillips mark martin rusty wallace in the mid 70'sComment
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There was a guy who won the mod feature. And he absolutely dominated it. He'd come off turn two and get the rr tire just over the berm and throw up a rooster tail of dirt. After the race was over he come up on the front stretch for pictures and when he got out and took his helmet off it wasnt who was suppose to be driving the car. It was his brother who raced in another division. Moral of the story he was Dq'ed. lol2021 race count
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Waiting after the race to ride with Duvall (or whoever was giving rides but Duvall was my favorite). Metrolina speedway, best French fries anywhere but we didn’t always go there. When my dad owned a car stopping at 66 drive-in in Bessemer City NC for late night breakfast on the way home. So much I remember. Miss them times.Comment
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My best memory was of my dad's driver sitting at the kitchen table going over plans on what to build for the next season. They were drawing and making remarks that a little guy could never understand. Going to tracks such as heidleberg and south park in western pa. I'd get to sit in the car the next day still smelling like nothing I ever smelled before and I loved it. My mother told me one time, one of my dad's finer moments was when (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) Linder drove my dad's car at heidleberg and won in it. He climbed out and told him he had built a good car. Mom always said he was proud of that moment.Comment
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Probably racing against my father for the first few years of my career, then having my dad qualify a backup car at a race just a few months before he passed away. He hadn't been in a car in over 10 years, made the show (not a big race, but quite a few local good cars went home). We didn't always get along when we ran against each other, all on me being a punk a$$ kid. He'd still be the first one at the track if he was around today....Comment
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Walking up the hill from the parking lot at bowman gray as a kid smelling the sweet smell of alcohol in the air, with a cooler full of moms tomato sandwiches and orange crush in the brown bottle in the trunk of our 66 comet.Where is the move over flag when you need it?????Comment
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Nice reading these posts. I'm lucky the neighbors took me with their son to see my first races. Late 60's we would go to the Mazon Speedbowl on Friday nights and the old Fairbury on Saturday nights. Both Fairgrounds tracks had covered grandstands and legendary racers. Being from Streator, IL, I was a big Jack Tyne fan. Fairbury "rails" had unique exhaust smells back in their days. Got my first Speed Sport News paper at Fairbury and I've been hooked since.Comment
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First memory was at the old Canton Ga speedway with my uncle and a jalopy he and friends had. Then in 69 when Dixie opened- Working all day at a little home town grocery store before i was old enough to drive - then my mom dropping me off at the track to sit with their friends. Rome, West Atlanta, Dixie, North Ga and everywhere after i got my license. Loved Buck Simmons. And ole Jody too! Hooked then -still am. Great memories. Thanks for the thread. Merry Christmas everyoneComment
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