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. "One of the spectators said, 'He's throwing up there in Puke Hollow,'" Riggs says, "and it stuck.". The "new" Langhorne Speedway debuted on June 20, 1965, with Jim McElreath winning a 100-lap USAC National Championship race that was marred by several accidents, including two fiery crashes. having Langhorne Speedway was an automobile racetrack in Middletown Township, Bucks County, near the borough of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia . In 1939 the Langhorne Speedway was part of an organisation called "Hankinson Speedways" - Hankinson ran events under AAA sanction at a long list of tracks both in the North-Eastern USA as well as in the Carolinas. and Johnny Matera. Foyt and Jones drove past the car as it was flipping violently. 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. All cars were flagged in and the race . The promoters were understandably livid. turn area. been thrown out after one or two barrel rolls. Some of those that perished 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. Concord Speedway was built in 1982 by Henry Furr. He had not raced on dirt since 1957 although he won his early fame there. A crowd of about 15,000 was on hand for this second sprint car show. The The unique layout meant that drivers drifted around virtually the entire circuit, usually with the throttle wide open, yet with perilously limited vision around the constant-radius corners -- a triple threat that demanded deft car control, immense reserves of strength and endurance, and, of course, those huge huevos. On the 70th The next June, they ran a Champ Car race. He began racing at the track in 1938 against his parents' wishes with a V8-engined car that he built himself. The track now is a faded memory. Stock car drivers were killed in 2001 and 2002; the latter was T-boned at almost 170 MPH due to poor marshaling by the race's governing body. 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. But if I'd gone 10 feet past that pole, I would have gone straight over the guardrail.". "I hardly slept the night before. race, a small piece of solder was found in the fuels return line, which, in only 40 laps. "In fact, the year I finished second, I used the prize money for my honeymoon.". After the I watched poor Bobby burn to death.. ", Although 25,900 fans had shown up for the Champ Car race in 1970, the 'Horne was increasingly unpopular with drivers. could call the turn one area. Note the burning fuel on steel guard rail in background. It was another track to conquer. Charlotte Motor Speedway got off to an explosive start, hosting the NASCAR World 600 (now the Coca-Cola 600) in 1960, its opening year. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. But once you got into a rhythm, it was excellent. Indeed, Darlington was not a track to trifle with in its early days, as it claimed seven lives between the years of 1952 and 1965. He was five laps behind race winner Gwyn Staley. Next came Nazaruk 33.202, Joe Sostilio 33.233, Mike Magill 33.329 and Tommy Hinnershitz 33.671. to the speedway, for opening day May 1, 1955. Langhorne Speedway, PA 5-14-1939 Henderson Crash - Betts #4-2 - 8mm Film Scan 2,898 views Sep 1, 2017 17 Dislike Share Save AACA Library & Research Center 1.47K subscribers Subscribe Silent Film.. It opened in 1926 and quickly gained a reputation as one of the toughest tracks in the country, thanks to its high banks and long straightaways. The Mile is safer than ever before, but the racing is gone, and the track may soon be too. tires, too, as can be seen in the photos. As a result, the speedway sat idle and did not host a race of any kind until 1946. 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. ". fast but rough track greeted the drivers and fans on June 24th. Includes the menu, user reviews, photos, and highest-rated dishes from Langhorne Speedway Diner. Track ownership responded to that with an expansion to the facility's catch fencing, raised from 15 to 21 feet, and with overhangs doubled from 3 to 6 feet. "You were sideways all around there with the back hung out, and you were either flat on the throttle or you were feathering a little bit, so there was no rest." winners were Al Herman, Mike Nazaruk and Charlie Musselman. "That was the only race in my career that I was really worried about," he says. UPDATE 6:55 p.m.: Crews have cleared the scene of an earlier crash in the 2000 block of Langhorne Road in Lynchburg. It also marked the final IndyCar race to be held at the circuit. Twenty-seven people had died there over its 45 years of existence. For that, we should be thankful, since Langhorne was once described by Bobby Unser as "the most dangerous, most treacherous, most murderous track there ever was. Responding to concerns about safety, track owners Irv Fried and Al Gerber paved Langhorne and reconfigured it to create a short straight on the back side of the circuit, thereby turning the "O" into a "D." There were still plenty of gruesome wrecks -- Mel Kenyon lost the fingers on his left hand in a fire in the first Champ Car race after the track was pavedbut there were no more fatalities. NASCAR Hall of Famer Cotton Owens, in a 2008 interview, remembered finishing races at Langhorne with battered hands. The current space features a Sam's Club, a Restaurant Depot warehouse and a CarMax dealership where the pits and grandstand were once located. The length of the oval itself is contested, with different organizations claiming 1.0-mile, 1.015-mile, and 1.032-mile lengths. [5][6], Langhorne was relocated to southern New Jersey and became Bridgeport Speedway in Bridgeport, New Jersey.[7]. 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. So a few laps from the end, I scooted down in my seat and I pulled my elbows in and I closed my eyes and dove underneath him. The Almost immediately after Langhorne's closure, the property was razed in order to make way for a new shopping development. I was at the Selinsgrove Speedway, last Saturday, March 20th, I Yanigan. That view was basically rough track played havoc with both drivers and machines. (Larry) Crash Crockett was fatally injured. View photos of the Concord Speedway construction below. Articles may contain affiliate links which enable us to share in the revenue of any purchases made. headed pit side, with his gas tank empty. Tinglestad being lead away from the wreck by a track official. a relief driver on his 55th lap, and Rodger Ward took over for him. The track was paved. # 31, the car that he drove at Langhorne on March 20, 1955. The facility features a 1/2-mile tri-oval as well as a 1/4-mile oval. The track became famous for it's many ruts and uneven terrain. Reece and Pat Flaherty in row 2, Jimmy Bryan and George Amick According to the book Langhorne! Just View NASCAR Cup Series driver stats at this track. race continued after a spell, and Musselman had the 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. The rest of The track is located in Midland, North Carolina, southeast of Concord. ", The car landed on Bryan several times before coming to rest right-side up. Team Tactics Come Into Play a Champ car, ended up as the fastest qualifier with a time of 32,871. completed. VINTAGE INDY 500 Winners Aj Foyt / Mario Andretti Photo - Trenton Speedway - $5.59. A that day, for Briggs Cunningham, in a D-Jaguar, and he had been signed to drive Next to him, for the start was Bob Veith. "It wasn't just the track," Dallenbach says. According to a count by Autoweek, Langhorne Speedway took the lives of 27 people in its short 45 years of operation. Nazaruk set a new record for the 6 miles with . As much power as we had, youd run that thing full blast all the way around. retired from competition during the LeMans race, right This auction is for a NEW 1960's 8x10 Inch B&W PHOTO of 234903308877 Bryan charged on, and was However, as suburban growth engulfed the speedway with Levittown being built up around the area, the offers from developers became too tempting to refuse. It might as well have been called the Killing Field. by Hartley, with Bryan, Charlotte has since extended the fencing to 24 and 12 feet respectively. others had really started beating the drum about banning auto racing, to the 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 In 1989, the circuit closed, replaced by a mall and a suburb. Our car experts choose every product we feature. hesitant, at first, since we had a special graduating (religious) service at It's been gone for years now but this video shows you just how intense these guys were. Langhorne continued to host an annual stop on the Grand National schedule from 1950 to 1957. left after the 1955 racing season. The lives of future racers of Darlington, I hope, will remain with them. FIRE IS A RACE CAR DRIVERS WORST ENEMY! However, the Langhorne book says that the But after the Champ Car race at Trenton in the spring, the drivers met secretly and voted to boycott the event. been thrown out after one or two barrel rolls. accident at LeMans has to be the worst ever, with I was wearing thin leather gloves, and I had blisters out the wazoo. Courtesy of Jim Wilmore The Langhorne victory. Jack Turner was the last car usually drew quite a few cars from the mid-west. That might have been the hardest pass I ever did in all of racing. Did the Horne scare Unser? I Only two have died since 2000, and none since 2010. You know in your mind you could get killed or seriously injured, but you dont think about it. needed more fuel. Langhorne Speedway Langhorne, PA. Glossary Tweet. As he came past, he reached up and wiped some of the oiled dirt off of Watch. And I made it! A dirt track at its 1903 opening until it was paved in 1954, the 1.0-mile speedway encloses a 1.8-mile road course in the infield, where the Green Bay Packers once played. With that, his run at While the SCTA holds two speed trials at Bonneville every year, it hosts six at El Mirage, and the volume of racing opens the event up to more crashesand more deaths. Well, Bryans Riverside International Raceway is the sole dedicated road course to make this register. Going through there, you were gritting your teeth, Andretti said. never been to Langhorne previous to this day, and was making his initial run in looking at previous trips to Langhorne, and the times that we arrived back I was there, but really cant remember what the The competition was never fiercer -- or deadlier. at Langhorne. 1926 - LANGHORNE SPEEDWAY This one mile dirt circle track was built by members of the National Motor Racing Association and opened on the 12th of June 1926, The official opener was set down for the 31st of May but was rained out. This was the first, but not the last, of a remarkable variety of machines that competed at the track. Nelson Applegate suffered an apparent skull fracture when he reportedly bounced his car over the guardrail. Like Bonneville, the speeds built into El Mirage and land speed record racing means monumentally dangerous crashes. IMCA stars, Bob Slater and Bobby Grim. From 1951 to 1957, the race was sanctioned by NASCAR. The stands Locations suitable to attempt these records are few, as they require miles of straight, absolutely flat terrain. It Steve became a Lincoln Speedway favorite and was always requested to come down on the front stretch and do flips for the fsns. I was a little most every occasion when I went to Langhorne, I sat in the stands in what you could say was the fourth turn area. Langhorne - March 20 and May 1, 1955 and June 24, 1956 While I was at the Selinsgrove Speedway, last Saturday, March 20th, I happened to mention to another race fan that on that date in 1955, I was in attendance at the Langhorne track to watch the sprint car races. Another Who wants to go to Langhorne? There were two accidents, but . 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The half-mile Meyer Speedway in Houston, which hosted a 1971 Cup Series race in which Bobby Allison and Richard Petty started on the front row in front of 9,000 spectators, went down in the late . Heat In 1961 and 1962, Supermodifieds raced with the Modifieds and Sportsman cars. In the following 11 years, four more were killed at the track, and in 1983, the 10th and final fatality at Riverside occurred, when ex-Formula 1 and Le Mans driver Rolf Stommelen's IMSA GTP Porsche lost its wing at 190 MPH. In fact, the nation's deadliest racetracks share one common trait: They've been around a while. My brother, Raymond (Jim), wanted to go to and Garrett, running second and third, were lapped by Bryan, as he circled that rough track. LANGHORNE, Pa., March 20 (AP)--Larry Crockett was killed today when his racing car spun out of control at Langhorne Speedway. Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com. The holes were up and the smooth side was down. Then again, they no longer build racetracks like Langhorne Speedway, where the scary-fast downhill stretch of rudely rutted purgatory between Turns 1 and 2 was immortalized with that infamous moniker. thumb had to be amputated in the hospital. After the race, Clarence said they took bulldozers and steam shovels and dug down 25 or 30 feet and didnt find any concrete. The payoff was a record setting, whopping Marvin passed away 2 hours later. As there is a tie on this list, tracks with equal casualty counts will be ordered by their years of operation (shorter histories push them up the list). Al gave his car a little breather there, and I kind of closed my eyes and got around him and won the race. George Amick took over the lead, and he was followed AAA was in town for a day of racing with the sprint cars. Photographer is unknown. If you suddenly ran up on cars, it was hard to dodge them. The Speedway hosted the nation's most noted race for the Modified division; the first post-war stock car race run at the facility was a National Championship Stock Car Circuit (a forerunner to NASCAR) race in 1947, with Bob Flock taking home the checkered flag. Thomson, Russo, McWithey What is undisputed is that the Milwaukee Mile's future looks grim. 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. for Ferrari, both in sports/racing cars and also in Grand Prix cars, after LeMans. Item discovered at ebay.com; When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. and Ratjmann were out before 60 miles had been Grim, Klar, Mattera, Matera, Bechtol, McCoy, OConnor, Crockett and Mealy. OConnor, Jerry Hoyt, Mike Magill, Duane Carter, Charlie Musselman, Deaths among racers and spectators were common in the early years of racing. 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. [10] The Strictly Stock series was renamed the Grand National series for the 1950 season, and the series is now known as NASCAR Cup Series. Magill and Thomson, and was challenging Musselman for Dutch Hoag was the most successful driver, winning five times. "And when you started doing that, you'd better have your right rear all fired up and spinning real good or you were in a lot of trouble." The was a consolation race and Crockett won that, with OConnor and , Pat lost control of his car, with the car going through the fence and then into a 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. Courtesy of Jim Wilmore A momentous trophy for Pete after his Langhorne victory. He qualified on the outside of the front row and took the lead at the start. That was the most dangerous track on Earth. Track finances are in question, and some are concerned that the recent sale of one of the track's grandstands is the first step toward dismantling the whole thing. "The track was sort of like Darlington, Allen said. Amick was Langhorne on the 24th, to see the Indy car race, but didnt want to Probably the most notorious area of the original dirt race course, which earned the nickname "Puke Hollow", was located at turn two. Save. Jerry Hoyt, Duane Carter, Larry Crockett, Bob On lap 43, Veith to make the show were Rodger Ward, Bill Cheesbourgh, ", If anything, Andretti was too brave for his own good. 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. (*) = Last race ever held at Langhorne Speedway. The American Motorcycle Association sanctioned bike races at the 'Horne for more than a decade, and Carroll Shelby even won a sports car race there, holding off a 4.4-liter Ferrari in his bizarre-looking Cadillac-powered mongrel. the lead if he could make up that lap before Bryan got back onto the track, but Sweikert and Pat OConnor were on hand, along with When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. after the Levegh accident. During the prewar years, the lap record was already a few ticks above 100 mph -- an astonishing speed considering it was a dirt track with no straightaway. Another two people were killed during a 2012 motorcycle cruise at the track, when two riders broke event rules, speeding at up to 70 MPH in opposite directions on the circuit's banked corners. Joe Mattera, Dick Mealy, Harold Bechtol Being the most modern track on this record, ISM has the fewest confirmed fatal accidents. Veith led the first 16 laps, with Bryan leading laps 17 through 70. The final race held at Langhorne occurred on October 17, 1971, with Roger Treichler claiming the win at the national open for modified stock cars.[4]. the field lined up like this: Jimmy The night before Langhorne, I was actually really concerned. pretty quick, too, with him doing the 6 laps in a time of 3:23.57. "That was a track that separated the men from the boys," he says. was a consolation race and Crockett won that, with OConnor and Jiggs Peters following him. Of course, slicing through those ruts required a lot of sawing at the wheel, which took a toll on the drivers. The mid-'50s through the early '60s are often considered the golden years of American open-wheel racing, when homegrown Indianapolis roadsters and championship dirt cars reached their apotheosis. [2][3] That same month, the U.S. government banned all forms of auto racing due to America's involvement in World War II. three events that appear, below. below. It would get awful rough, he said. victory something he couldnt do in 1955, when he had to ask for relief after The National Open Championship run here was regarded as the "Indy of the East". In the first national open, in 1951, a large wreck blocked the track and burned driver Wally Campbell, that year's NASCAR National Modified champion. The number of individuals -- drivers, officials and spectators killed at Langhorne officially totals 27. My earliest Langhorne program is from May 1939 when Duke Nalon won the feature " Orange City Hotel Speedstakes" from Tommy Hinnershitz. Paved Oval located in Langhorne, PA: Track Status: Razed (Opened: 1926 --- Closed: 1971) TOURING SERIES & MAJOR EVENTS ; Date Sanction Winner Laps 3 May 1930: AAA Champ Car Series: Bill Cummings: 100 7 May 1932: AAA Eastern Big Car Series: Bill Cummings: 50 28 May 1932: mile track at Langhorne. having I wasnt smart enough to be scared, he said. These events included AMA-sanctioned National Championship Motorcycle races between 1935 and 1956, AAA-sanctioned Championship Car races between 1930 and 1955, and USAC-sanctioned Championship Car races from 1956 to 1970. They let it settle in over the winter. At The driver who eventually became one of the worlds best was standing in the Langhorne infield April 7, 1963, when Bobby Marvin lost control of his sprint car and slammed into the outside rail. barrel rolling along the low wooden fence. pace. If youre afraid of racing, you best get out of it. The track was built as a near-perfect circle and was dirt for most of its existence. langhorne speedway diner, Langhorne: See 74 unbiased reviews of langhorne speedway diner, rated 4 of 5, and one of 97 Langhorne restaurants on Tripadvisor. Another Because the track was round, you couldnt see very far ahead of you. At the beginning of his long Indy car career, Wally Dallenbach remembers driving a 1957 Oldsmobile -- "a huge tank of a car," he says -- in a strange race featuring 15 modifieds, 15 late-models, and 15 sports cars. Earnhardt's outspoken disregard for some safety equipmenthe was an obstinate opponent of the HANS devicecaught up with him at the 2001 Daytona 500, when a last-lap crash into the wall caused multiple serious head injuries. fate dealt Garrett a cruel blow when his steering arm broke, and he spun out. Pavement Modified star Matt Hirschman won five of the past six editions since 2012, and has tied Hoag for most wins in this race's combined history. However advances in safety technology and specifications designed by . The track was very fast. The next time I saw him, he Ive never lost sleep over debuting anywhere in the world, even with Formula 1 and whatever, Andretti said. Open wheel and sports car competition competition thrived from the track's first year of operation, in 1964, and NASCAR first appeared 14 years later, and Cup races did not follow for another decade. The first fatality in NASCAR's top series also took place during this race when Larry Mann crashed through the guardrail and flipped three times. mile track at Langhorne. March 20 and May 1, 1955 and June 24, 1956. The first Langhorne National Open was held in 1951, and Dutch Hoag raced in it; he was one of the last cars to get through the large wreck which blocked the track and burned driver Wally Campbell, who was that year's NASCAR National Modified Champion. The NMRA operated Langhorne from its inception through the 1929 season, staging 100-lap events on Labor Days and occasional shorter races. Driver Joe Eubanks crashed heavily into the grandstand guardrail, causing his car to spin violently like a top. a time of 32.941. Sprint cars, midgets, motorcycles, and stock cars hadn't raced there for years, and for Indy cars -- by far the fastest of the bunch -- Langhorne was unmercifully bumpy, dangerous, and unpleasant. and Thomson in the first row, followed by Magill and Sostilio. May 3, 1930 : Langhorne Speedway, Langhorne, PA : AAA Indy Car : Bill Cummings: June 16, 1940 : Langhorne Speedway, Langhorne, PA : AAA Indy Car And tragedy also. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. Less than a month after the racing ban was enacted, Hankinson, the man so instrumental in bringing notoriety to Langhorne early on, died of natural causes in Florida. Nazaruk, Manuel Ayulo, Bill The burning remains of the Niquist Offy in which Mike Nazaruk received fatal injuries. Langhorne 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. The Besides sprint cars and midgets, there were modifieds, late-models, and stock cars. There He said they expected to get a good report. In light of this grisly index, chronicling the loss of 215 human lives, we can take solace in the downturn of deaths recorded, with only 21 occurring at the above venues since the year 2000. dont think that there was a worse year than 1955 as far as deaths in auto racing goes. trials, with clockings of 33.06 and 33.45. winners were Nick Fornoro, Fred Jiggs 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. A lot of racers believed -- mistakenly -- that Puke Hollow got its name because drivers felt sick when they roared through it. Also killed at the track were five motorcycle riders, three spectators and one flagman. Then they covered it back up with dirt. Little Background As a result, no physical remnants of the track itself remain. Today. drivers had blistered and bleeding hands. 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. Land Speed Racer Memorial cites 10 deaths of competitors at the Bonneville Salt Flats throughout history. George didnt qualify his normal ride, the HOW Offy, on the track, completing 83 laps. and headed towards the track to show it to him on his next lap. "Langhorne was the kind of place where, the bigger your huevos, the faster you went. On June 14th, 1970, Rick Muther spun and hit the wall on lap 121 ending the effort of the only turbine powered car ever to run at Langhorne. 109 12K views 2 years ago An unknown driver flips during the 250-mile NASCAR Grand National race at Langhorne Speedway held on September 14, 1952. first two rows of the feature consisted of Musselman NR2003 name NR2003 year NR2003 sky Date of .ptf Date of race.lp Author Real name Length (mi) Pave ment Ban king Location State Country Region Racing started NASCAR Cup Series Race Recaps. It was a challenge, but if youre a racer, you want a challenge. The Share. attendance at the Langhorne track to watch the sprint car races. The National Open since 1972 has become the Race of Champions Modified race, raced exclusively on pavement and at various Northeastern tracks, and its history has been combined into the National Open. gaining on Amick. 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