Speedway Racing
 

Glad to see the sport having a resurgence.
Goes with my mantra of brakes being overrated.
The smell, noise & action is great stuff.

The Harley folks come for Harley night, take your street or TT bike and race the oval.
I mentioned a BSA or Triumph bike maybe being competitive too and I got the stink eye.

2 big differences from 50 years ago;

The girl riders got the biggest cheers, back then none existed.
The "wave" for the crowd in the stand is now done with your cellphone light.

When we lived in upstate NY we had a speedway track about 20 minutes away . We used to go quite often , a rowdy crowd for sure .

Speedway

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Flat track

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I’ve done flat track but always wanted to try Speedway.

OC fairgrounds in the 70s with MC Larry Huffman. More Beer! he would yell.
Bud played the young son on Father knows best was racing too.

I liked Bruce Flanders too but didn't hear him at Speedway.
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I may be wrong but weren't most of the speedway bikes made by Jawa ?

Back in the 1970's ESPN showed Speedway a lot and if memory serves, Bruce Penhall was so popular that he became a cast member on 'Chips' with Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox?