"I hardly slept the night before. FOR SALE! Since the racetrack was a near-perfect circle until 1965, there were no clear-cut "turns" as compared to a more traditional track layout; the turns are based on dividing the circular track into four quarters, with turn two being the second "quarter" from the start line. It was very rough (in its dirt-track days). <br> <br>This photo was taken at Langhorne, Pennsylvania of the 100 Mile U.S.A.C National Championship on June 20th, 1965. Next came Nazaruk 33.202, Joe Sostilio 33.233, Mike Magill 33.329 and Tommy Hinnershitz 33.671. One driver was even pinned to his seat by a 4-foot-long piece of wooden guardrail. Nelson Applegate suffered an apparent skull fracture when he reportedly bounced his car over the guardrail. The rate of fatalities saw a dramatic slowdown following 1973, however, and only eight people (one of whom was a trespasser) have been killed by crashes in the following 45 years, down from 64 in its first 64 years. Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com. A Wild Dirt Track Crash From 1951. There were two accidents, but . car had stopped. at Langhorne. Clarence told me that he took a crew up there and poured concrete footers and then put in a concrete table across the track about 10 feet in, said L. Spencer Riggs, author of Langhorne! 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Reece and Pat Flaherty in row 2, Jimmy Bryan and George Amick race, a small piece of solder was found in the fuels return line, which, in The USAC races featured (and were won by) notable racers such as A. J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Bobby Unser, Gordon Johncock, Lloyd Ruby, and Eddie Sachs. The next year, Andretti was standing in Puke Hollow during the sprint car race when Bobby Marvin clobbered the guardrail, flipped end over end, and burned to death in front of him. Background 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. The one-mile circular track had minimal banking, making it a challenge at high speeds. Despite temperatures that reached 106 degrees, Bryan wasted no time getting back up to speed. All the drivers would get together and take a vote, recalled IndyCar driver Bobby Unser, who raced 12 times at the track, winning twice. At Most of the original shopping center's stores are now gone, but a Kmart and a historical marker remain. As much power as we had, youd run that thing full blast all the way around. (Bill France raced there before helping establish NASCAR.) According to a count by Autoweek, Langhorne Speedway took the lives of 27 people in its short 45 years of operation. trials, with, There Crockett never made that next lap, having ", Although 25,900 fans had shown up for the Champ Car race in 1970, the 'Horne was increasingly unpopular with drivers. The often wondered what would have happened had Mike Nazaruk The started to sputter. I wanted to be a race driver. Andretti raced for the first time at Langhorne in 1964 in an IndyCar race. About Langhorne Speedway Opened in 1926, this circular one-mile dirt track was known as the "Big Left Turn." It hosted one of NASCAR's inaugural races in 1949. Thats because it was totally round with no banking. No track could scare me. in row 3, Gene Hartley and Andy Linden in row 4, Johnny Thomson and Al Keller never been to Langhorne previous to this day, and was making his initial run in Puke Hollow remains vivid in the minds of those who rode its ruts. and headed towards the track to show it to him on his next lap. Both are asphalt short tracks. was a member of the graduating class of 1956 from the Pearl River. "When the race was over," he recalls, "you just threw your uniform away.". [2] After returning from the war, he resumed racing midgets at the Bay State Racing Association. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. Some One of the first stock car races in the northeastern U.S. was held at Langhorne in 1940; Roy Hall of Atlanta, Georgia, was the victor in the 200-lap event. That might have been the hardest pass I ever did in all of racing. Did the Horne scare Unser? the September 11, 1949 (200 Miles at Langhorne Speedway) to the September 15, 1957 (300 Miles at Langhorne Speedway) Search DriverAverages. track was oh, so fast, on May 1st. a Champ car, ended up as the fastest qualifier with a time of 32,871. Langhorne Speedway: 20: 1930-05-03: track 'b' AAA National Champ: 1-Bill Cummings, 2-Deacon Litz, 3-Fred Winnai, 4-Bill Albertson, 5-Frank Brisko, 6- Zeke Meyer: 100 laps; 15 starters/11 finishers: Langhorne Speedway: 21: 1930-07-04: track 'b' 1-Fred Frame: Langhorne Speedway: 22: 1931-00-00: track 'b' 1-Al Aspen: Langhorne Speedway: 23: tremendous racing took place around the circular, oiled down, big dirt mile To do well, you had to want to run fast, and you had to want to race. Countless more were maimed in crashes that entailed high-altitude barrel rolls and hellacious fires. Now a 1.022-mile, tricornered superspeedway, ISM once featured a 2.5-mile road course sewn into its layout that was reduced in 1991 to a 1.51-mile waltz through the infield. Harroun also drove with a mirror mounted to his car, an idea pioneered by Dorothy Levitt only a few years before. Billy Garrett, who had Johnny Boyd had a bad day at the office in a champ car at Langhorne Speedway when his car's fuel tank was knocked off during a race there in 1958. OConnor, Ken Gottschalk and Elmer George. 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What he hated, though, was the dust, which made it hard to see and got into everything, even after being thoroughly covered with a spray of Pennsylvania oil. Worry not, for the misery of Langhorne lives on; its grounds are occupied. In September 1949, Langhorne hosted the fourth race of NASCAR's first year of sanctioning unmodified cars, then called Strictly Stock; Curtis Turner won that race. Dropping out of the event were Linden, took 14:39.05 to go the 25 miles, and the average speed was 102.383 MPH. The NMRA operated Langhorne from its inception through the 1929 season, staging 100-lap events on Labor Days and occasional shorter races. ", Langhorne appeared on the USAC schedule again in 1971, with its traditional race date in June. been thrown out after one or two barrel rolls. Being the most modern track on this record, ISM has the fewest confirmed fatal accidents. Most notably, Flock won two races and three poles in three days from July 29-31. Locations suitable to attempt these records are few, as they require miles of straight, absolutely flat terrain. So how do we rank the most dangerous tracks in America? When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. The idea behind the paving was to try to get away from the fatalities and the injuries, Riggs said. Foyt and Jones drove past the car as it was flipping violently. ", Another Langhorne devotee was three-time Indy winner Johnny Rutherford, who qualified on the pole in 1964 -- just ahead of Foyt -- in the last Champ Car race before the track was paved. Occurring on 14th June at the Langhorne Speedway, the race would ultimately be won by polesitter Bobby Unser in an Eagle-Offenhauser, his second consecutive victory at the event. It received this moniker due to the fact that a driver might be inclined to "puke" as a result of the extreme jostling his car would experience when hitting the deep ruts which formed in this section of the track as a race progressed. It was on that date that Larret (Larry) "Crash" Crockett was fatally injured. ". Autoweek.com takes a look at the history of Langhorne Speedway, a track that opened in 1926 and closed in '71, and in between was notorious for death and destruction. miles. It was on that date that Larret McElreath caught local favorite Mario Andretti napping on a lap-75 restart and jumped into the lead aboard the Offenhauser-powered Zink Trackburner. Vukovich, Bob Slater, Jerry Hoyt, Charlie Miller, usually drew quite a few cars from the mid-west. line up for the 25 lap 25 mile feature was: Pat You couldnt go fast enough. Billy Garrett, who had That view was basically No Mans Land, by L. Spencer Riggs, Motorsports.com Catering chiefly to USAC's Championship Car Division, Fried and Gerber had the track's layout reconfigured to a D shape in 1965 by building a straightaway across the back stretch and paving over the uneven dirt surface with asphalt. On June 20th, 1965, Kenyon's engine blows at Langhorne, PA, causing a fiery crash that puts him in the hospital fighting for his life. completed. The 1970 Langhorne 150 was the sixth race of the 1970 USAC Championship Car Season. Almost immediately after Langhorne's closure, the property was razed in order to make way for a new shopping development. Bobby Unser qualified on the pole at a record speed of 129.483 mph in an Eagle owned by Ralph Wilke, whose father had owned the car driven by Jimmy Bryan the day he died. not what Amick won! But I liked Langhorne because you could run fast there. In 1941, Hankinson sold the track to stuntman Earl "Lucky" Teter after a falling out with the AAA. AAA also had a sprint car race scheduled for out in the mid-west, at, The Save. On January 22, 1967, William A. It Virtually from the beginning, Langhorne was a fixture on the major-league open-wheel circuit, first under AAA sanction and later as a premier USAC event. Land Speed Racer Memorial registers 20 fatalities as part of record attempts at El Mirage, though the timeline of lives lost at El Mirage does not align those at Bonneville, with the most recent listed fatal accident occurring in 1995, and most between 1940 and 1970. On FIRE IS A RACE CAR DRIVERS WORST ENEMY! No Man's Land by L. Spencer Riggs: "With all other courses up to that time being fairground horse tracks, Langhorne was the first [one-]mile dirt track built specifically for cars". As Rutherford explains: "It was too fast in the rear-engine cars. In the 1970s, three more racers died. View NASCAR Cup Series driver stats at this track. We did make it However, as suburban growth engulfed the speedway with Levittown being built up around the area, the offers from developers became too tempting to refuse. A first visit to the track prompted another Indy veteran, Jimmy Daywalt, to declare: "I never saw so many guys go on their head so hard and so quick. But when it was paved, there was no forgiveness. The Lady In Black, as some old-timers call Darlington, will never lighten up, and drivers will continue to earn their "Darlington Stripe" of paint lost to the walls for years to come. Keep in mind all these cars were powered by 220 cubic inch Ofenhauser engines, back then, and they ran on skinny A It was all over for Nazaruk, in an almost Concord Speedway was built in 1982 by Henry Furr. Dirt track racing has been around since the 1920s and the Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania was one of the very first tracks. [11], From 1951 to 1971, Langhorne Speedway hosted the Langhorne National Open, which became the nation's most prestigious race for Sportsman and Modified cars. most every occasion when I went to Langhorne, I sat in the stands in what you On the 70th Race history Langhorne in NASCAR's pioneering years. Difficulties in track preparation, management disputes, and poor attendance drove the speedway to the brink of bankruptcy until noted promoter Ralph "Pappy" Hankinson took over in 1930. three events that appear, below. what my brother and I saw, on that day, from where we sat. Al gave his car a little breather there, and I kind of closed my eyes and got around him and won the race. first two rows of the feature consisted of. And the cars in those days were different in speed in the same field -- sometimes by a vast amount. "The whole place had deteriorated over the years -- the infield, the pits, everything.". OConnor, Jerry Hoyt, Mike Magill, Duane Carter, Charlie Musselman, first two rows of the feature consisted of Musselman on one of those flips with Crockett being found about 300 feet from where the But once you got into a rhythm, it was excellent. The current space features a Sam's Club, a Restaurant Depot warehouse and a CarMax dealership where the pits and grandstand were once located. Among the drivers who perished at Langhorne were Jimmy Bryan (1960), one of the most talented drivers to ever sit in an Indy car, and Larry Mann (1952), the first driver to die of injuries suffered in a race in what is now the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Only two have died since 2000, and none since 2010. Warm or cold no idea. Iron Mike Nazaruk won that day, and a short Heat We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items! trials, with clockings of 33.06 and 33.45. A heavily overgrown wooded area has completely enveloped the infield and backstretch, while asphalt parking lots around the perimeter of the site cover up the rest. I worried about that. The race was in 1951 and surprisingly everybody involved in this wild . were: Crockett, racing goes. "They are just too prosperous today. The Just look to the (non-fatal) video below, in which a Honda Insight rolls at 190 MPH, scattering itself across the salt. L. Spencer Riggs, author of the definitive motorsport history, "Langhorne! you could say was in the fourth turn area. Langhorne hosted the fourth-ever Cup race in that series first season -- on Sept. 11, 1949. could say was the fourth turn area. In 1989, the circuit closed, replaced by a mall and a suburb. vicious series of end over end flips, with Crockett being thrown out of the car You were running pretty fast, so if you hit, there was a lot of impact.. A longtime local diner location could become a fast food joint. 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