IMCA stars, Bob Slater and Bobby Grim. 65 USAC JIM HURTUBISE KENYON AUTO RACING CRASH LANGHORNE SPEEDWAY . Race driver Phil Walters (Ted Tappett) was racing at LeMans "In fact, the year I finished second, I used the prize money for my honeymoon.". at Langhorne. But on the first lap his car got crossed up diving into Puke Hollow, hooked a rut, and launched an estimated 55 feet into the air. and Johnny Matera. AJ Foyt, who won four consecutive Championship Car races at Langhorne to go along with his four Indy 500s, was one of the few drivers who relished the opportunity to pound through Puke Hollow. 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. NASCAR Hall of Famer Cotton Owens, in a 2008 interview, remembered finishing races at Langhorne with battered hands. His teammate, Charlie Musselman was next with A year later, Andretti got his own baptism by fire at the 'Horne. From its earliest days, Daytona was synonymous with racing fatalities: two drivers lost their lives in its first yearone just less than two weeks before the original Daytona 500 was held. trials, with clockings of 33.06 and 33.45. I knew the only place I could get by was Puke Hollow. I wasnt smart enough to be scared, he said. The lives of future racers of Darlington, I hope, will remain with them. Thomson got out of shape in what could be Nobody liked it, and the ones who said they did were lying. Langhorne Speedway Langhorne, PA. Glossary Tweet. That kind of hurt the field for the Langhorne The photo In the 1970s, three more racers died. tires, too, as can be seen in the photos. went after Musselman. rough track played havoc with both drivers and machines. Race Date Cars Winner(s) St Make / Model Len Sfc Miles Purse Pole Cau Laps Speed LC; 1949-04: 09-11-1949: 45: Curtis Turner: 11 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. mile track at Langhorne. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. He was found about 150 yards from where the Tinglestad being lead away from the wreck by a track official. According to a count by Autoweek, Langhorne Speedway took the lives of 27 people in its short 45 years of operation. I raced all over the world, and that was the most dangerous, most treacherous, most murderous track there ever was. show. race continued after a spell, and Musselman had the The blood would start running out of my hands with about 10 laps to go. langhorne speedway diner - CLOSED. Curing a three-month stretch beginning with the June 24 race in Charlotte, N.C., and ending with the Sept. 18 event at Langhorne (Pa.) Speedway, Flock captured 11 of 15 poles and won eight races. never been to Langhorne previous to this day, and was making his initial run in Next to him, for the start was Bob Veith. Another Over the years, a total of 38 people would die of injuries sustained in accidents at the track, the most famous of whom was none other than Dale Earnhardt himself. remember, quite well, his last lap as he raced his way to disaster. track that day, as the racing usually was at the horne. fast but rough track greeted the drivers and fans on June 24. accident at LeMans has to be the worst ever, with As drivers began to don protective gear and race safer cars, track owners kept pace with their own safety advancements, building Armco barriers, runoff areas, curbing, and even SAFER barriersall of which serve to prevent serious injuries. Tragedy Hits Racing Family for Third Time : Oldest Son Is Latest Victim as He Dies From Car Crash at Kalamazoo Speedway By TRACY DODDS May 2, 1989 12 AM PT Times Staff Writer Jerry Landon died. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Langhorne Speedway hosted its final race in October 1971, six months after drivers voted to boycott the track because it was so treacherous. 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. George didnt qualify his normal ride, the HOW Offy, The plot was at the corner of Lincoln Highway and Woodbourne Road, where now stands a car dealership, a Kmart and a Sam's Club store. consolation race was won by Musselman, and he was "Billy" Foster was classified last in the Motor Trend 500 at the Riverside International Raceway after he lost his life in a practice crash two days earlier in his #22 Dodge. VINTAGE INDY 500 Winners Aj Foyt / Mario Andretti Photo - Trenton Speedway - $5.59. 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. Ive race, so it seemed, was gong to be a third straight win at Langhorne, for Jimmy feature race would be over a distance of 30 laps 30 miles. 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. from 71 to 100. first two rows of the feature consisted of. The number of individuals -- drivers, officials and spectators killed at Langhorne officially totals 27. been thrown out after one or two barrel rolls. In the third heat, strange as it seems, all three of the Sam Traylor cars were entered The The worst-case scenario was hooking a rut and vaulting into the air, which was how 1958 Indy champ Jimmy Bryan bought it in 1960 (see sidebar). Just Richard Speck, of Mechanicsburg, was sitting in the infield. Some of North Americas most popular racing venues have fatality counts in the dozens. George Amick took over the lead, and he was followed Ive never lost sleep over debuting anywhere in the world, even with Formula 1 and whatever, Andretti said. The race was in 1951 and surprisingly everybody involved in this wild . 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. Nobody liked it, and the ones who said they did were lying.". Before these lifesavers were common in racing, deaths of both amateurs and pros were far more common, regardless of how well-prepped the tracks were for crashes. Of course, slicing through those ruts required a lot of sawing at the wheel, which took a toll on the drivers. His death in such a shockingly unexpected wreck deeply affected everybody who'd witnessed it. Langhorne hosted the fourth-ever Cup race in that series first season -- on Sept. 11, 1949. As sad as it is to say, the Milwaukee Mile may go the way of the nine known to have lost their lives in incidents at the track between 1930 and 1982. 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"The track was always kind to me," he says. Bob Al gave his car a little breather there, and I kind of closed my eyes and got around him and won the race. After the race, Clarence said they took bulldozers and steam shovels and dug down 25 or 30 feet and didnt find any concrete. One in 1952, another in 1954, still another in 1957, three support personnel at the 1960 Southern 500, and its most recent in 1965. Many drivers flat refused to go to Langhorne. 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". racing goes. Langhorne, Penn. He really began to make his presence known in the Forry Brothers No. See all (5) The speedway was razed. The track is located in Midland, North Carolina, southeast of Concord. langhorne speedway diner - CLOSED Unclaimed Review Save Share 74 reviews $$ - $$$ American Diner Vegetarian Friendly 2029 E Lincoln Hwy, Langhorne, PA 19047-0000 +1 215-949-3533 Website See all (5) Enhance this page - Upload photos! He said they expected to get a good report. That might have been the hardest pass I ever did in all of racing. Did the Horne scare Unser? The "During qualifying, he told me that there was a pole with a yellow light, and I should back off there no matter what," Andretti says. (Bill France raced there before helping establish NASCAR.) car had stopped. 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. AAA also had a sprint car race scheduled for out in the mid-west, at Salem. Team Tactics Come Into Play I didn't want any part of that joint.". Following those two were: Thomson, As a result, the speedway sat idle and did not host a race of any kind until 1946. AAA was in town for a day of racing with the sprint cars. The promoters were understandably livid. I When Mario Andretti made his debut at Langhorne in 1964 in a big, old Offy-powered Champ Car with no power steering, he recalls, "We put electric ape on my steering wheel so I could grip it better. Many drivers flat refused to go to Langhorne. The Milwaukee Mile is the oldest circuit on this list and the second oldest speedway in the world. The. Then came the 92nd lap, and Bryan headed pit side, again Mike Magill was coming, and he went past Amazon.com: OnlyClassics 65 USAC Jim HURTUBISE Kenyon AUTO Racing Crash Langhorne Speedway Photo INDY 500: Photographs in the Nyquist # 29, also from March 20, 1955. The rest of barrel rolling along the low wooden fence. Jerry Hoyt, Duane Carter, Larry Crockett, Bob In the 50-mile feature, held as usual during the worst of Pennsylvania's summer heat, Russ Snowberger, who would go on to achieve considerable fame at Indianapolis, was overcome by the combination of humidity, dust, bumps, and fumes from his straight-eight Miller. I wanted to be a race driver. Andretti raced for the first time at Langhorne in 1964 in an IndyCar race. Indianapolis Motor Speedway was constructed in 1909, and originally paved with 32 million pounds of bricks, hence the name "Brickyard." Peters, and Nazaruk. On Saturday, October 14, 2006, almost 35 years to the day of the last race held at Langhorne, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission dedicated a historical marker at 1939 E. Lincoln Highway (in the same general area where the track was located) which reads: Opened in 1926, this circular one-mile dirt track was known as the "Big Left Turn". It was deadly. Unser won the final two IndyCar races at the track -- in 1969 and 1970. were: Crockett, These changes would be implemented at all of the properties under the owners' umbrella. Ralph Liquori and Jim Hurtibise(#88) leap from their cars as Mel Kenyon(#21) slumps in the cockpit, badly burned and unconscious. Guaranteed starting positions were awarded to the winners (or highest finishers not already qualified) at special Langhorne Qualifier races held at weekly racetracks throughout the Northeast and Southeast. his 11th lap, Engle wrote down the letters E-Z on his blackboard, The track was razed soon thereafter. Unclaimed. March 20 and May 1, 1955 and June 24, 1956. 43 Langhorne Speedway Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Editorial Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 43 Langhorne Speedway Premium High Res Photos Browse 43 langhorne speedway stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. The Mile is safer than ever before, but the racing is gone, and the track may soon be too. First, a little context: The number of lives lost at a racetrack over time actually have little relationship to how safe a race track is today. Freddie Winnai of Philadelphia qualified in 42.40 seconds, a new world record for a one-mile (1.6km) track, and went on to win the 50-lap main event. But once you got into a rhythm, it was excellent. A special thanks to Eric Cardona for sharing this historic footage.Apart from Mann's fatal crash, there were several injuries during the race. Daytona opened in 1959, and within the steep, 2.5-mile tri-oval, which reaches 31 degree banking in some spots, a 3.56-mile road course exists, where the 24 Hours of Daytona are raced, as well as a short oval, a dirt oval, a karting tack, and a motorcycle circuit. almost 100 fatalities, after his Mercedes went into the crowd, opposite the pit Only two have died since 2000, and none since 2010. I 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. The track became known as one of the more dangerous tracks in motorsports. [2] Killed in a crash at Langhorne Speedway's dirt oval, when the car went through the guardrail. Hoag was the only driver to win the National Open on both the dirt and pavement surfaces.[12]. View photos of the Concord Speedway construction below. "When the race was over," he recalls, "you just threw your uniform away.". The car, upside down, and burning, was about 4 cut-down 1932 Ford coupe. By a stroke of luck for a track of its age, Daytona has never recorded any spectator deaths. miles. Custom Search . a photo, again, one taken by Walt Imlay, of the start of the 1956 100-mile race fast but rough track greeted the drivers and fans on June 24th. The What is undisputed is that the Milwaukee Mile's future looks grim. Bryan. Heres a Champ car, ended up as the fastest qualifier with a time of 32,871. May 3, 1930 : Langhorne Speedway, Langhorne, PA : AAA Indy Car : Bill Cummings: June 16, 1940 : Langhorne Speedway, Langhorne, PA : AAA Indy Car Fried and Gerber announced the sale of the property to mall developers in 1967, but the speedway held on through five more seasons. The car rolled side over side into traffic and was T-boned as it burst into flames. "They just screwed it up when they paved the track," Foyt says with typical bluntness. was a member of the graduating class of 1956 from the Pearl River. Marvin passed away 2 hours later. A Almost immediately after Langhorne's closure, the property was razed in order to make way for a new shopping development. Reece and Pat Flaherty in row 2, Jimmy Bryan and George Amick Heres "Langhorne was the kind of place where, the bigger your huevos, the faster you went. It Dick Frazier, Al Herman, Charlie Musselman, Pat It was like jumping a fresh-plowed field. South Carolina driver Johnny Allen, now 82, ran in three NASCAR Cup events at Langhorne Speedway in the mid-1950s with a best finish of third place in 1957. As Riggs puts it, "I think people figured that if that joint could eat Jimmy Bryan alive, then it could get anybody. Foyt and Jones drove past the car as it was flipping violently. 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. I Known as "The Big Left Turn," Langhorne was for many years the world's fastest track of its size, despite being unpaved. # 31, the car that he drove at Langhorne on March 20, 1955. 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. After the The circuit hasn't hosted a national-level racing series since IndyCar in 2015. Langhorne Speedway was an automobile racetrack in Middletown Township, Bucks County, near the borough of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. and Ratjmann were out before 60 miles had been On this day, we sat in the first [9] Several other noted drivers were injured in accidents, often described as spectacular, due to high speeds on the mile-long but rough dirt surface. Charlotte has since extended the fencing to 24 and 12 feet respectively. Jimmy Jones was making his debut at the 'Horne in 1960 when Bryan died in an aerial wreck in Puke Hollow. My earliest Langhorne program is from May 1939 when Duke Nalon won the feature " Orange City Hotel Speedstakes" from Tommy Hinnershitz. High-profile American racing clubs like the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), American Automobile Association (AAA), and United States Auto Club (USAC) made Langhorne one of the stops on their national circuits. was taken by Walt Imlay. "You were still drifting the car. "One of the spectators said, 'He's throwing up there in Puke Hollow,'" Riggs says, "and it stuck.". Despite temperatures that reached 106 degrees, Bryan wasted no time getting back up to speed. Save. Going through there, you were gritting your teeth, Andretti said. AAA sprint car show was held on May 1, 1955, at the big, circular oiled dirt It's been gone for years now but this video shows you just how intense these guys were. Bob Veith asked for A crowd of about 15,000 was on hand for this second sprint car show. the win, but fell about a car length short. race, so it seemed, was gong to be a third straight win at Langhorne, for Jimmy You had to be really, really on your toes to be competitive. As much power as we had, youd run that thing full blast all the way around. Nazaruk ended up winning on that fateful day. Click on the race number to see the results of that race. Share. He was I guess a gymnest and would flip many times down in front of the fans. 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