Yup, Sportsman races, figure 8's, motorcycle TT races, and the Thanksgiving night Turkey midget race....good times
my dad used to take me there quite a bit when i was a kid. we always had a great time there. i miss the place. thats cool you have the sign. i would love to have that for my garage wall.
dont forget the splinters, i loved watching the first timers in turn one eat dirt hmm look at all those empty seats up front ,thursday nite speedway and in the later days slicktrack... i was lucky enough to race that track before it closed..........
Around 1978, I bought a house near the water in Redondo Beach. Around 10 PM one Saturday evening I was standing in my back yard, and I could hear the distinct sound of racing engines in the distance: "HMMMMM...few seconds pause...HMMMMM...another pause...HMMMM". I thought, "Lions? Nawww, the timing is wrong". Couldn't figure it out. Never heard it again, either. It was a couple of years later that I attended a sprint car race at Ascot for the first time. When the main started, I finally realized what I had heard from my back yard. I guess it's probably seven or eight miles, as the crow flies, from that house to the old Ascot location, but I'm sure that's what I heard. That was really fun racing to watch -- more adrenaline than any other spectator sport I've ever watched, except maybe Cl*** A Speedway bikes. Too bad it's gone.
Best sprint car racing on the planet, that track was primo for racing they lost history when they closed it cause there won't be another one like it
Ascot racing was televised on Channel 5 in LA on Sunday afternoons in the late 1950s, mostly "jalopies". I guess the real cars raced on Sat. night.
LOVED Ascot! Raced motocross there a couple of times on Wednesday nights. Spent many a Saturday night at the Sprint Car Races, siting in the entrance to turn one, down low, getting covered with mud. Go up to the snack bar and get a sausage sandwich that we swore could fight back. Order a few Silver Bullets and they'd give you the box they came in and fill it full of ice for ya too! We also raced Cl*** A Speedway there a few times. Put in a 2 speed box and run those 500 cc brake less Methanol burning Beach Cruisers on the half mile with somethin like 20 sec laps Ahhh, Good Times!
Ascot and the Sprinter "Tamale Wagon" driven by Shuman ridin the burm in two, carrying the front wheels over the burm, ya, good times!
I would have sworn that it was Ascot on channel 5 with **** "Whoa Nelly!" can't remember his last name.
I was to young to get the chance to enjoy Ascot. The only Ascot I was able to enjoy was the Ascot Slick Track off the 5 fwy in anaheim,even that closed when I was like 15 or 16 but it was fun as hell!!!!!!!!!!!
...anounced by "whoe nellie"-**** lane".he also did " live" wrestling interviews from the "olympic auditorium"
Ascot? My younger brother used to wear those all the time; no, those were ****ies, the fake turtleneck pullovers. Like Emily Latilla would say, "never mind". Butch/56sedandelivery.
Ascot was my home track. Raced there in the seventies. Got my body damaged had to quit.Let someone else drive the car for a year but he wasnt learning.Raceing got to expensive for me.So the car sits in the back yard.No's of the car were 79,in 1970,s and 60 in 1980's.It was the most fun of my life[besides ***].
Really?, a couple years ago I got to race a dwarf car at victorville speedway,first time ever, nervous as hell but holy **** was it fun. I got home and later that night I got laid and all I could think about was being in that race car!!!!!! And this girl was pretty hot too.
Can't say that is the "Original" sign, but went there many times!!---Also Carrell Speedway---One handed Allen Heath was my favorite driver,---Culver City "Dog Track"----Remember ol' Termite Snyder?---How about when **** Lane used to announce Spade Cooley Ballroom at Lick Pier in Santa Monica?---He advertised for Courtesy Chevrolet, Laffed out loud the nite he slammed his hand down HARD on a '49 Chevy hood & put a BIG dent in it!!!---Without missing a beat he exclaimed: "Thats OK folks, Courtesy Chevrolet has the BEST body & fender guys in town"--------Lots of laffs back then!!-----------------Don
My dad would take me and my brother there and we would sit in the double decker bus as the sprint cars would hit turn one and the mud would hit the bus like we were being shot at. Good Times...........
I remeber going in the mid 70's and watching the figure 8's with my brother very exciting races. I also remeber a 62 olds F85 with an Offenhauser motor that was an awsome sound.
Yeah, Termite Snyder, Jim Rossler, Art Atikinson, "the candy cane kid" at Western. The yellow dot shows where I used to sit with my Dad every Sunday afternoon, between turn 3 and 4,, ice cream sandwiches and dirt clods mixed with the smell of Benzine
hell i am young, and from North dakota. we went to Cali to see family in 87, i was 8 years old. we went to the races there i remember it quite well actually, trhey had the figure 8 chain races, that was cool. i still have my program from there. what year did they close?
And let's not forget the 605 Speedway also. Not far from where the NEW Irwiindale is,other side of the freewat. Seems to me the JFK cars ruled that place.
Yeah, that was a fun place, too. Primitive, as a track should be. Filmed the "Turkey Night" midget race there. Not only just east of where the Irwindale Speedway is today, but inbetween the two was the San Gabriel Drag Strip. Now, that place was lots of fun.
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