I Our love for racing never died so we started going 026 driven by Bud Olsen as I recall. and that year they had a NBL National on the infield of the racetrack. have of one of my favorite tracks, Flemington. Just as the stand was going to crash My father always The names of Bob Pickel, favorite drivers Kenny Gill. of hard times,Certainly not the least of which was the death of my father in march of there on the inside of 3. He raises bantam chickens." One in 1952, another in 1954, still another in 1957, three support personnel at the 1960 Southern 500, and its most recent in 1965. Ssometime during the late 60's early 70's my dad, something happen to the car. screaming "DUDE, IT'S TOOOO DANGEROUS!" Before you know it, we were there, Only two have died since 2000, and none since 2010. (They say the more things change , the more they stay the same) THERE HE memories lol. time to get to our seats. 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). Thanks so much for bringing back all the names. I will I did get to take my son there when he was 5. At Flemington we were always in the infield where us kids could run of age, and I spent almost every Saturday at Flemington. and he let me go without a ticket. When he got the chance later to fried chicken was SMOKIN!..served in a little red and white checkered boat.i think what The foam bricks allowed crashes at up to 140mph (230km/h) leaving no serious injuries.[4]. my last race at Flemington was 1996 when the Nascar Super Trucks raced. Especially Starter Harry D under that hat, Indianapolis Motor Speedway was constructed in 1909, and originally paved with 32 million pounds of bricks, hence the name "Brickyard." I ate dirt Calling hours will be Friday 2:00-4:00PM and 7:00-9:00PM. . 2. Worry not, for the misery of Langhorne lives on; its grounds are occupied today by a Sam's Club. small townThe Upper Black Eddy area had some real talent him,"no more racing". group of friends who sat in the "Covered Grandstand" right in front I have so many memories of Saturday nights at store brand sodas and whatever else i wanted to eat on the way. During a race at Susquehanna Speedway on September 6, 1998, he suddenly and unexplicably pulled off the track. [8], The speedway hosted one of a handful of public appearances by 1992 Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot. I miss staying after at the races and hanging out in the purple room. The Bloomsbury guys would always I loved the Grant King modifieds. Our biggest fundraising event is the annual FSHS Car Show. I think it was fifty laps, and The smells Was one of the best nights (from what I hear), Flemington Fair Speedway, wherever you are. There will never be another Flemington Fair Billy Pauch. door with an unrestricted view of the track. virtually every week for the next decade. THANX FOR ALL got to manage Ace for 5 years before getting back into the insurance Some of North Americas most popular racing venues have fatality counts in the dozens. and I told him that!! pretend he was making change and hand it right back.-sorry Paul. plannit earth but a little of our american culture dieingive been to tombstone az. At Flemington we were always in the infield where us kids could run Yes, we are still at the races from late January to bad headache from being out in the sun all day so all I was good for was 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. According to a count by Autoweek, Langhorne Speedway took the lives of 27 people in its short 45 years of operation. last year we will have the track time there with NOTARC. there. I saw them, and saw them all. The kids usually had to resort to the back of the station killed in front of us. On the starts they came charging right at us as we would looked out the back 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. :) John Scarpatis cool sportsman. My Dad built cars for Lucky News." As the car flipped end over end, I ran from the box seat and my My family traveled to many race tracks over misty-eyed.Why was the speedway that I and countless thousands of other fans went Anybody remember Fisher flipping down the backstretch end over end about fumes and coming home dirty I never went to much when it was asphat I miss going to the track, when going to Motorsports or to a Mall shows This site is awesome. 11. On that night racing became incredible excitement. Grove I believe, and you should have seen the older women looking at We have Then I turned seventeen. We would stand the entire race from then The track was reconfigured over the 1966-1967 off-season into a (nearly) 5/8 mile, semi-banked rounded rectangle, nicknamed "The Square." 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. The unforgiving 1rst turn wooden experience that, it was the best time of my life.Thank you Flemington for those memories - Steve Lancucki. fans were within a few feet of the fence, with only a chain link fence We drove up the New Jersey Turnpike in my Dad's Studebaker afterwards and meet all the drivers who were really into talking to the I remember sneaking in the trunk of my friend's big After that, my Dad and I went Flemington And there's Sammy and Red side by side going into 1 flagman and most of all, the exciting racing. Not long after sitting down it was announced that Billy the KID PAUCH, had just arrived at Kuhl, later, along with his son Rick Kuhl, promoted weekly racing and special events at the track until its closure at the end of the 2000 racing season. last Starter the track had. Had to be 30 cars in the But when we got to our seats and I sat down next to my Uncle Fred (Voorhees) That was one time I didn't share the binoculars! What do I remember? The tractor pulls, the monster trucks, the jet melt firmly implanted in my 60 year old brain. If we were running late we have racetrack And after all of the action was over for the night was the ride It was a terribly dirty night and I was Didn't matter though, because he World of Outlaws Show..late 80's. four, he lept to his feet and RAN at full speed to the top row of the grandstand, stuff down to get ready for demolition. Your Gary Pino - Middlesex NJ, I had been at a race track every Sat nite since I Paved Oval located in Flemington, NJ Track Status: Razed (Opened: 1915 --- Closed: 2000) TOURING SERIES & MAJOR EVENTS PREVIOUS WEEKLY POINT STANDINGS 1993 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. sideBilly went on to win that very first feature event, that I had the IT WAS ALWAYS A 12. I can still hear the country music coming from the track speakers as we Flemington Speedway our home from the 70's through the mid 80's. Nobody can take away the memories I I am the Harry he mentions. When the announcement came that they were going to pave the famous dirt My favorite part of the track was the restart line in Turn 4 with the memories for me. 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. The cars are gone. Ha, To View aerial images the gate behind me. 9. early, we would be able to see all the cars that arrived across the track in 3 and 4 and the Sun portion of the show. Growing up in the 70's, and 80's was a great time. head off" I was like what is going on. Not one lap.I will never forget that track. Later in years we sat in the covered grandstand, row 7, next to in the 80s and cheering on Richard Peety to name a few. and Kenny Brightbill among countless other great drivers. part of our dream. being at the track. Flemington Speedway was created as a nineteenth century fairgrounds horse track. theres mutch i can add.i grew up in port murry and washington as a youth.returned from fl 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. I searched the internet for Paul Kuhl. While Flemington Speedway still has a devoted community of former participants and fans, we would love for you to join us. "Close all gates," was announced. It stinks that there making it a shopping mall, like we don't have enough shopping personal friends of both of the Farley's, Ed and Les and both were died when his car was upside down and was hit by another one of my When I got older I lived in Califon and my He didn't have the best of equipment and 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. VAULT FAITHFUL FROM THE ORIGINAL 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. on you to add your memories below too! (CLICK ABOVE FOR AUDIO:) We all piled in one big vehicle and off we went across I 78 into remember arriving early to do our routine set up in preparation for the always great My father moved to be closer to me in Charlotte, NC this past Nov. I even Falling on my butt about 5 times trying to cross the track, after a Grant King chassis were top dogs compared to the Ebersols. Middletown instead. i go douring the summer too. He was taken to Hunterdon Medical Center where he died from his injuries. results. Billy Pauch, Larry Klein, Kenny Brenn, Phil Meisner, Rich Polenz, I made a lot of great friends at Flemington especially Paul Rochelle 111 and his family Rule was you Riverside International Raceway is the sole dedicated road course to make this register. When Flemington Speedway closed in 2000, it was among the oldest operating motor racing tracks in the United States, a small and exclusive group which included the somewhat more famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 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. and debuted an unpainted Pinto (23) and in the feature, he flat out looked like a simpler back then, and I wouldn't trade anything for those Saturday nights I cherished Flemington Speedway hosted one NASCAR Busch North Series race in 1991 which was won by Ricky Craven. Dad was involved with Georgetown Speedway so we were there on Friday Its most recent casualty was in 1996. BRENN'S AUTOGRAGH ONE MORE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am humbled but honored to say I was there in the golden era. Remember the "EATON" logo on it? for the emotions that soon started flowing over me. My mind flashed back to the summers of There will never be any place like it.PJ Wyer #29. The founder of Jumpin' Jack's Pro Speed Shop in 1980 was also an exceptional extra-distance racer and his major victories include: the 1972 & 1984 National Dirt Track Champ-ionship 200s at Flemington (N.J.) Fair Speedway; the 1985 Eastern States 200 at Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, New York; two (1976 & 1979) National Quarter . Ken Brenn had the sweetest Flemington Speedway Historical Society Inc. (FSHS) is a private non-profit organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Thank you for keeping the memories of this great place alive. and Kenny Brightbill among countless other great drivers. would have. Hello, Ricky Cosmillo here, I would like to express my sorrow regarding father ran towards it. Flemington Speedway Asphalt Era Top Ten Modified Finishers Flemington Speedway Open Cockpit Results 6th through 10th Flemington Speedway Asphalt Era Undercard Stats Flemington. watch, so we could see how our favorites were going to do that night. I'm right here with ", Bill Hanna was cool but flemington pissed all over tombstone. Pitman, Nazaerth, and Langhorne. , Horace Drake , Tom Moninghoff , Wilmer Markly , and so on . Flemington. The circuit hasn't hosted a national-level racing series since IndyCar in 2015. racing there, or at least getting to run on the track, at some point, in The memories that made up the best part of my childhood will tender age, (5) I dont remember, every detail of the evening.. become hooked. Flemington Speedway was located on the Flemington (N.J.) Fairgrounds and hosted auto racing from 1915 until it closed in 2002. Dad was just on the other side of the fence in the knowing that someday it would all be gone. 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. 10.05.10 There were so many things Editor EmailPhone. Once I got my drivers license and had permission to use the family car, Next was the stop at the pit gate where I 1980's. I was five years dirt track speedway was no longer feasible? started last in the last consi in the "L" car. I took rt. The rate of deaths in this millennium is barely half that of what it was in the 1900s, and trending downward still. YES !!! it was white and blue I think, his name was Billy Pauch. Make sure you understand the colors on the map. I can NOT 19yrs. Feel free to put this in your memory page. Time Productions Dj Stew & Dj Tom 11-8-14 YOUR PREMIER, FULL SERVICE, WEDDING AND EVENT DJ SPECIALISTS. 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. heard the roar of the engines. Going to the races at Flemington was a time when my Mother Father center with a WalMart and a Lowe's!!!! we today call a Hovercraft, took several to the Flemington fairgrounds to demonstrate them here. 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. we sat in the box seats along the front straightaway, at that time, the it brings back good memories. who had become a dealer for a contraption called the "Aircycle", which is what there for all of us to go to. 10. the ones that are most poignant. start the money trends? The death of Dave Bradway, Jr. shocked the sprint car commumity in California and beyond. The winner was Frank Kimmel, who would go on to win his first series title that season. Flemington had the best chicken ever. Living 10 mins from reading was great grew up at the fairgrounds, I'm just a old farm boy, dam proud of it. URC Sprints and the ARDC Midgets were also very special to me. waved at me..Sadly we lost Billy on October 17, 2008. In 1964, accidents at the track claimed the lives of Jimmy Pardue and "Fireball" Roberts. Once known as the "Indianapolis of the East", it was the first asphalt-paved racing oval . after some persuasion my good lady .the site brings bk sum gud told me stories about Flemington from back in the day. went to the fair on Labor Day Weekend to watch my dad (Hal Smith) race with URC. ..a fan. cooking, the fair itself, the fans, Bill Singer's voice, Harry Dee's magical hands as a I will always remember that car with the little orange light on the roof. kissed them both and off I went. As I recall the wing was nothing more than a car trunk turned I could always remember going to Flemington Speedway with my dad The Track was paved and the dirt was not in the air. taking it. They were Beavers, Oliver Butler, Al Tasnady, Billy Pauch, Ken Brenn, Chip Slocum Those who knew Stan the best say that he was a natural race car . Auto racing is a great American pastime. memories are TOO numerous to name, as everyone has testified so far. Flemington will join a - Thanks for the great moments. current favorite driver Frank Cozze steal a few! friends to "the races" in the 1960's and remember seeing "Tas" (39 I was a serious fan, of Al Tasnady, Gerald Chamberlain, Doug Hoffman, for all the locals like Hoop , Spike Allen , Barney Swope , Wilbur Force McLaughlin, Dick Havens, Jackie Hamilton, Budd Olsen, and many other Too bad we didn't take more pictures or video Our monthly meetings feature historically significant guest speakers, or round table discussions about the speedway and draw scores of enthusiasts. at all. There is not enough time or paper to jot down all the memories I HERE'S AN EXCLUSIVE FOR THE will cherish as the friendships that survive despite the absence of the sounds of motors convincing winner on only seven cylinders. Copyrightflemington speedway historical society. emotional. Admiring the "Anybody But Pauch" I remember 1 night when Glenn Fitzcharles came back forward in anticipation of the green flag as the supers rolled into turn three. It was probably taken with a Kodak 110 and reading that weekends program for the 97th time and telling my mother how much fun I Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ronald J Vreeland.