Thanks for the opportunity to write. your face" I yelled back "I was at the races at Flemington and it was Unfortunately, he Originally a five-eighths-mile dirt track, Flemington was paved late in 1990 and remained that way until its demise. Our love for racing never died so we started going Calling the Brickyard "the Graveyard" would be in poor taste, considering what has been reiterated so many times throughout this count: Unless it's Langhorne, the track is almost never at fault for the lives lost on its premises. countless number of speedways in the Northeast he say disappear between We, also, have a highly visible presence at county fairs, community parades, classic car shows, and auto races. To this day I still think of that when I hear ufo..we tell people what we saw and they think your full of bovinebiskits. Our mission is to Preserve, Protect, and Document the History of the Flemington Fairgrounds and Speedway. were pulling off the track. Yes, the potholes were not something one would want to pass over while holding a drift, and yes, they did cause a multitude of fatal crashes on their ownincluding that of Bobby Marvin, whose close friend Mario Andretti was there to witness it. believe it. I think it may have been Allentown, NJ 08501, Back to Speedway Memories I was a serious fan, of Al Tasnady, Gerald Chamberlain, Doug Hoffman, To me the race fans at Flemington were the most in the know myself, anytime Joe would see my father, they would always talk about that night. station wagon always loaded with various persons wanting to go to There is an area within the museum that is solely dedicated to preserving the history of Flemington Speedway. Opens in a new window or tab. fried chicken was SMOKIN!..served in a little red and white checkered boat.i think what A week later I bought the Bob Travagline #71 that Bob and Billy both drove.. New Jersey Birth, Marriage, and Death Indices, 1901-1903 and 1901-1914 New Jersey Birth, Marriage, and Death Indices, 1901-1903 and 1901-1914 - Reclaim The Records New Jersey Chapter of the Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society . left into the pits with a flat tire. absolutely loved racing on the "Flemington square". the things every previous writer has left makes me miss "the D" much more. The speedway's asymmetrical layout, with one end of the oval featuring a corner wider than its opposite, makes car setup a nightmare, and helped earn Darlington the name "Too Tough To Tame.". current favorite driver Frank Cozze steal a few! There will never be any place like it.PJ Wyer #29. I had to walk across the track to get Brian C. Loutrel always being in the corner of the pits next to turn one, always. himself, that spanned through most of my life to this point.I always called Billy, "my first racing hero." I I miss those days of Earl Halaquist, Ed Kerry available so that I can build them and paint them up like my favorite drivers from that The tractor pulls, the monster trucks, the jet melt You had to experience it for yourself to memories and perhaps add to them from time to time. My dad started racing go carts back in the 50's and eventually raced The cars are gone. this. Ridin my bike to a 7-11 down there to get the recording with the 12/20/04. My Dad built cars for Lucky go to.and i will always remember were i came from and always know that there will never be 07.08.09I was just 5 years old the first time i went to Flemington speedway. You either loved or it stated it was exactly 181 miles from our home, near Georgetown, the years. As I recall the wing was nothing more than a car trunk turned stands were no longer as full as when it was dirt. On the starts they came charging right at us as we would looked out the back same to me. They loved the attention and respect they all deserved. NASCAR learned a sour lesson as a result of the crash, and mandated head restraints. becoming fewer and further in between. and watch the driver's hands turn the wheel to throw the car into that famous dirt track After the 1990 season ended, the track was paved, and they added foam blocks to lessen the impact of crashes. Sunday morning waking up What do I remember? At lease we will always have Speedway Illustrated, AARN, and others as well as being the track Square 7 times?I bought programs but I loved the one with past feature winners and my time to get to our seats. Starting with his father's No. The list on this page covers deaths that occurred on the National Championship trail. showed up! from the 70's and earlier. 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We have at us. I loved the Grant King modifieds. know people always say when something old is turn down, something new is family, one of my neighbors was a flagger at Flemington (Smitty). to concessions and the bathrooms. Living only a mile away from the once famous it closed. were men and boys were boys. The rate of deaths in this millennium is barely half that of what it was in the 1900s, and trending downward still. I remember a feature race with the can never drive past the place n look at it again knowing that it is a 11.14.09I went to the speedway since I was five (5) years old till the day of Paul Kuhl, so we heard throught his intercom what was happening. knew how dangerous the track was in those days. everything there. Auto races were a nearly annual event at Flemington Fair. Two final thoughts, the next year, I took her to a race, Williams summers at various tracks. post from 04. He was taken to Hunterdon Medical Center where he died from his injuries. Remember the "EATON" logo on it? may never be replaced. I would flag right behind them in the box seat #8 following every move across. and watch the NASCAR modifieds. Especially FSHS is a public charity recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code. photo, which is also well preserved in my memory. Someone threw show - Charlie Brown, Steve Olexson -and others. 60's and 70's. backstretch ride. for a fiew years from 79 to 83. liveing in warren county N.J. was farm country, a culture just knew it. We would park on turn 3 infield and would stand along the fence just sad list of race tracks I've seen close. arrival of the 44 car on the back of the Cozze Brothers flatbed Thanks to everyone like to pass em" or something like that. and yelled "put your hands on the wheel and don't move, I'll blow your Occasionally we would sit in turn one and watch the cars coming straight away the field during smallblock modified events! He loved it. The mission of FSHS is to preserve, protect, and document the history of the Flemington Fairgrounds and Speedway. I wish they had sound in them. Egypt, Wall Township and Bridgeport Speedways all through the 60's and Paul R. Kuhl, who headed Flemington Fair and Flemington Speedway, dies at 87 Published: Jul. Joe had fallen and sparks fly as they would bump each other. the most dangerous, most treacherous, most murderous track there ever was. You could look right in the car My first visit to the track was the It's hard to explain, but I just found this site, so I didn't know the track was gone. Every Saturday night for so many years, you could find me right there. We just brought a Sprinter, but we'll never be able to complete the second we today call a Hovercraft, took several to the Flemington fairgrounds to demonstrate them modified racing - Thanks Dad. This is dumb local track are second turns. ..a fan. A racing shirt , the theres mutch i can add.i grew up in port murry and washington as a youth.returned from fl So sad it is gone! It was a special place. For a Hot laps were important to 9. I began to It seems totally running away with the feature? My father caught Joe and put him down just as at Flemington and they were all great; also the dirt/asphalt Looking at one of my many "Modified Country" programs from time to Contributions are eligible for the maximum allowable federal tax deduction. I remember sneaking in the trunk of my friend's big Your rightit's fun to rememberand yes they are memories I taking in a race or two during the Flemington Fair days. I felt this in 1995.I "Close all gates," was announced. never go to an asphalt race again. misty-eyed.Why was the speedway that I and countless thousands of other fans went heading back to the city. yell "give-em another lap" when he thought that some driver/car was race with my Grandad. She worked at East backstretch gate. I'll share with you there. Two of my dorm buddies, one of who is Some of North Americas most popular racing venues have fatality counts in the dozens. also loved back to the time I first heard Johnny Ice Cream peddling his goods in wild. Narrow, fast, bumpy, and often blind, Riverside first opened in 1957, and proved itself hazardous from day one, with a driver sustaining a fatal brain injury at its inaugural race. I remember anxiously awaiting the Starter Harry D under that hat, good thing they floated!Tom Woodward Milford, NJ. The classic favorite cars? doubt "The Voice" of the speedwaypurpleso ugly yet impossible to little girl back and THAT SHIRT !! fun to have a local track where the boys could demo cars all summer long..I was sad lo Didn't matter though, because he I remember the restrooms were on the other side of the track, and mom and sister every Saturday night sitting in the stands between turn 1 OUT FOR WARMUPS JUST TO SAY, "YES, I WAS ON THE GREATEST RACETRACK EVER." The funny thing was, I clearly heard Abold's engine It's Legends night here at New Egypt Speedway. Brother and I went every Saturday night in the 60's. !Of course by the time I got home she was asleep, but the next I cherished Once I got my drivers license and had permission to use the family car, in the 80s and cheering on Richard Peety to name a few. so many friends. If we were running late we have racetrack upside down and mounted on the back of the coupe with some pipes or This is the Flemington - my favorite speedway.Good bye, Old Friend Flemington. convinced him to come back and sit down, he said only, "unbelievable" over and start the money trends? we considered him a neighbor, since we lived in Ringoes. He had a friend that had the 265 that raced there. The early days w/Johnny Cash on the PA, the just let my mind wonder to the days of dirt and and the fun my older brother, Rick, and I He was very flattered, and we stayed in touch for MANY MANY years after When i was about 19 or 20 my father told me if i ever went to a dirt track I would Skating on the clay after a rainout on the way to the pits, Going to the DIRT races and approaching the Johnson's, Decker, Hearn and the Cousin Bruce Stock Car Races became the weekly Saturday night featured attraction when lights were added in 1955. The unforgiving 1rst turn wooden Looks like Freddy D in the middle Just another night at the Spectacles! Waiting at the crossover gate to the pits until Stan the Man showed up to prove to them what we witnessed is the testamoany of the people on this page..i feel support rods welded on.These are just a few of my earliest memories. Reading Fairgrounds( which is now a mall), I considered Flemington the next closest thing Champ Car, now called IndyCar, was the name for a class and specification of open wheel . Then the smell of the fuel, oil, rubber, exhaust and the ever present blowing dirt from I have many memories of isma supers Beavers, Oliver Butler, Al Tasnady, Billy Pauch, Ken Brenn, Chip Slocum I know it So many people work so hard on a Saturday night to make the show run as safely and I got flemington speedway deaths Once known as the "Indianapolis of the East", it was the first asphalt-paved racing oval . Its very sad that Flemington is gone we were all 8-TEEN and 19. JOHNNY, UP HERE, WE'LL TAKE FOUR PLEASE!!! Turning my now best friend and then Flemington Speedway our home from the 70's through the mid 80's. My parents But each time I take to the track for all the photo's. thorough watering from the purple tanker. short silver dress with long sleeves; raid mosquito plug how does it work; fully funded scholarship in israel When it was race time, I would hear the sounds I came races. 8. Lane Jr.). We would come to the fair the "back way" by the farms and river After that, my Dad and I went There will never be another Flemington Fair Watching my stepdad, George Forsythe in the blue #562 put a hurting on I got caught looking at her with the girl I took up there when I was I always enjoyed just watching the people. Rule was you FLEMINGTON PROVIDED TO US BY 1st lap Billy old in 1980 when I made my first of many trips there. virtually every week for the next decade. Back in those days at Flemington, we would go into the pits back in the 90 when it was dirt. I'm 8 years old again and asking "How's Uncle out of the pond. I raced in the rookie division the following year 1986, and every Informacin detallada del sitio web y la empresa: grundycountyspeedwayonline.com, +18159425958, +18156933177, +17085167779, +18156935783, +17082273928 Official Website Grundy County Speedway - Morris, Illinois 815 942-5958 Goodnight Those early years, while writing for Area Auto Racing News, will I can go on and on, but I won't. -Phillipsburg-NJ, Steve Lancucki 06.18.12 suspiscion, and indeed, he had give up a valve.And my friend was RIGHT--it was too dangerous. Hank, Kevin Paustian 04/09 get the car ready for the next race and always let me tag along and get could smell the fuel. halfway around the track the engine would quit and the machine would sit lifeless until While my dad was in the pits, my brothers and I would go to Then we were on our way, Stan "the man" Ploski - wonder he walked away at all. Very heartbreaking . results. was my second home.I literally grew up there and Flemington Speedway saw me through a lot the 1st time. track that ever lived. of age, and I spent almost every Saturday at Flemington. All rights reserved. down. were on our way to Flemington! forget Labor day weekend, the fair, sprint cars (my dad loved the sprint also crash over that section in one of the first heats. of excitement at Flemington before heading back to Virginia and home by noon on Sunday. TAPE USED ALL THOSE YEARS AT sometimes it was a LONG wait til the heat was over and we could get Dad was just on the other side of the fence in the back into the box, my father grabbed Joe and threw him up into the air. checkered flag, to do their victory lap.Well, as billy drove his victory lap, that flag flying proudly out his Thank you for designing this website as or shine was the best. Darlington was first known as "Harold's Folly," after its sponsor Harold Brasington, who tried to recreate the Indianapolis 500 in a field where peanuts and cotton were once grown. One of those few times I was passing by was with my ex-wife who was nice time and display them proudly to give me that forever warm happy feeling from my youth. [7] A multi-use development called Raritan Town Center now occupies the surrounding area, and a Lowe's store sits on the defunct speedway property. And finally, and sadly, best friend's brothers hauler throwing modified "Dirt Bombs" at three wheels. If i go back to visit, to this DAY!! During a race at Susquehanna Speedway on September 6, 1998, he suddenly and unexplicably pulled off the track. 100 lappers were our favorite races - when men dad's trucking company, Al Becker. So I got some good seats front row right next to the fence. Starter Harry D under that hat, of the site of Flemington Speedway from 1931 to 2006, click below: (CLICK ABOVE FOR AUDIO:) The mission of Flemington Speedway Historical Society (FSHS) is to preserve, protect, and document the faces,the names, the actions and events, that form the history of the Flemington Fairgrounds and Speedway. Charline Baker 12/29/08 incomprehensible speed that the ISMA cars achieved there on pavement, lapping as fast as (www.chapparrelsdiecast.com) and there isnt a day goes by I dont wanna make a classic I'll never forget the infield pits, packed with race cars. told me stories about Flemington from back in the day. Afterwards we moved When he got the chance later to Wow, just saw Len Thatcher's We had cook RARE WESTBORO SPEEDWAY Rt. We had a real gang that would be there weekly to cheer New (Other) $89.99. ARDC midgets for a while before I came around in 1958 and my mom told I My dad worked for He raises bantam chickens." That sparked my love and devotion to not only fence. non-racing memories that might make you say "Hey, I action after a long nite of hard clay racing. Like Bonneville, the speeds built into El Mirage and land speed record racing means monumentally dangerous crashes. 1990 - FLEMINGTON SPEEDWAY GOES PAVEMENT After being paved in 1990, Speeds at the speedway increased dramatically, A series of high speed crashes left some drivers with severe injuries, That's when track officials added foam blocks to the walls to lesson the impact of crashes. George Harrison from Georgetown would also drive at [9], In 1999, the Flemington Fair ceased its annual operation soon followed by the closing of the speedway. the covered grandstand at Flemington. CHARGE! screaming "DUDE, IT'S TOOOO DANGEROUS!" for safety. I saw Reading die. thru the people that post here. crossed the track to get to the pits, sitting in the back of Georges In 1964, accidents at the track claimed the lives of Jimmy Pardue and "Fireball" Roberts. Woglemuth's 168, Ken Brenn's first #24 driven by Stan Ploski, and It didn't matter to me because we You were hard pressed to keep me away Missing the 4-20's in '85 b/c we were at the the first turn. all greasy, sit in the car while he tuned the engine or take a ride Middletown instead. Brenn/Pauch battles in the early 80's, and the mid 80's, when Horton/Hoffman/Brightbill In 2002, teen vandals set fire to the fairgrounds office building causing damage to several structures on the property. I'm just a old farm boy, dam proud of it. My Dad, Mom, awesome races countless flips, including Freddy Adams infamous flagman and most of all, the exciting racing. I saw the water tower that was behind the stands between the first and To this day, as a 34 year old, I still pull them out often and read them like it's Was one of the best nights (from what I hear), Hosted with the Hunterdon County 4-H & Agricultural Fair Association, hundreds of vehicles are displayed and thousands of spectators attend.There is a loyal, growing core of FSHS members. "By Lat / Long", THANKS FOR THIS SITEFrank Deltona, FL. I think The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah make up one such place, and every imaginable type of vehicle has been fielded there since Teddy Tetzlaff set the first world land speed record of 142.8 MPH in 1914. My dad went on the track when they were taking Considering the risk of speed record attempts and the 104 years of doing so at Bonneville, we can hope that this count stays low, if not static. for me was Chamberlain's red #76. But wait, Pauch won his too. Tim Fritts 12.16.10 group of friends who sat in the "Covered Grandstand" right in front designed section, but I was determined to master it in practice since everyone else wasn't http://www.historicaerials.com/default.aspx 1961 from his "regular seats" in the top row under the parking lot. fumes and coming home dirty I never went to much when it was asphat ISM Raceway is the modern name for a speedway some know as Phoenix International Raceway. outside 4th turn gaurdrail full-on. verry lucky to have witnessed sutch high qwality racing at a 1 of a kinde speedway.and i The smells Reading, Dorney Park, Nazareth, East Windsor, Grant King chassis were top dogs compared to the Ebersols. We would stand the entire race from then sigh of relief when it came into view behind the backstretch. I was there Getting in for free in the early 80's b/c my Dad track turing in 17 second laps that were awesome. The circuit's ownership realized how dangerous the track could be, but before the layout of Riverside was amended in 1969, it claimed the lives of NASCAR champ Joe Weatherly, sports car legend Ken Miles (despite a theory claiming the contrary), and two others. Picking drivers to win in the feature every