wonder where the old lads have all gone ,the taylor brothers ralph and ron out of oshawa ,hurmey hunkin ,who i sent down to the little swamp for a drink between the 3rd and 4th turn l.o.l. all in fun .the figure 8 track was fun .when they ran the odd race on it . i remember 1 flagman wont mention his name. the race was over, i lap the lead car twice he dropped the flag had me coming in as last ,i was 2 laps ahead of the so called leader ,should have won it, a feature race ,it was the last race i raced there. the flagman was drunk l.o.l.i came in last according to him ,i jumped out of the car chased him up the hill where the old wooden stands were, ready to pound him ,my wife was up in the stands ,must have known what i had in mind ,run over when she seen me chaseing him got in front of me and thats all that saved his butt ,he went over to the little stand i went over and talked to the owner we got it straightend out .went back down got in my car did my cruise lap with the checkerd flag ,the guy who thought he won came out on the track give me a bump i went over into the in field got out of the car ,he was as mad as i was a few minutes before , we got it straight ,everything ,was cool ,on the bright side there were a lot of fun guys ,that raced there , the one armed bandit ,that guy was one of the best ,a real good sport , i raced there in 1963 ,only about 20 races then went out to flamboro .for a few run a few at the c.n.e. and did 2 at pinecrest in 62 ,never had a sponser built the cars with the help of friends .for me it was just for fun ,something i wanted to do since i was a kid and would go to the c.n.e .back in the early 50s when they run the old 40 fords and cars like that ,but sutton was a lot of fun a great bunch of guys ,after the races ,we would head back to oshawa ,have a barbecue ,a few drinks and argue who had the fastest car that day and listen to the excuse s of the guy who had the slowest car l.o.l. sit and talk till about 1 or 2 am .everyone had to get up for work the next morning ,a lot of sleepy heads at work monday mornings .l.o.l. it was a pretty good track to run on at least no concrete walls ,i think we all had our turn running off the track into the bushes l.o.l.and if you won a few races it would just pay for your gas and the snacks for the wife and kids ,for the day .maybe even a case of beer ,l.o.l. but it was fun and good friends that made sutton one of the best little tracks around ,90 per cent of the fans were our wives and kids or girlfriends , moms and dads .aunts and uncles ,cousins l.o.l. every now and then we would even seen a few strangers there ,must have been tourists l.o.l. |
Topic: Sutton Speedway
