New Jersey

All-Time Favorite New Jersey Track:

Flemington Speedway – dirt version

Current lifetime trackchasing state rank:  Worse than 10^th place!

Best Memories:

My family and I lived in Connecticut beginning in the fall of 1979 for 15 months. During that short time, I saw a good deal of New England and east cost racing. One of those stops was to the Flemington Speedway when it was a dirt track. By that time I had come to really like the dirt modifieds of the east coast. I came away from that daytime visit to Flemington looking like a raccoon with dirt and rubber dust engulfing my face. It made for a great picture!

This is Bing Metz winner at the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Bing is now an active trackchaser.

Carol and I ventured out to the Atlantic Convention Center, home of the Miss America beauty pageant, for some TQ midget racing. We remembered the indoor show by the gasoline fumes permeating the aging building. It was a cold night in Atlantic City. At the time they were trying to develop AC as a competitor to Las Vegas. As we walked a few blocks to the convention center into a cold biting wind with each casino placed a block or two from the next one, in the midst of a big city slum, it was easy to predict that Atlantic City was NOT going to be the next Las Vegas. My buddy Bing Metz (above) won a main event at the Atlantic Convention Center back in the day.

At the Bridgeport Speedway, I met “Jalopy Jack” and appeared on his call-in radio program. I caught the USAC sprint cars with Paul Weisel (above with Carol at an ice race!) on the 3/8-mile oval at Bridgeport Speedway, my fourth countable track at Bridgeport.

The indoor show at the Cure Insurance Arena in Trenton was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. There had to have been more than 75 yellow flags and the PA system was ungodly loud. At the asphalt version of the Flemington Speedway, I first met Gordon and Susan Killian.

When I checked out the Garden State Quarter Midget Racing Club (above) the countable race was run with 12 moms of the young drivers. I waited forever to see that race and it almost ended up being rained out. I saw some excellent modified racing on the dirt at New Egypt. My Ft. Washington buddy Louis Skypala joined me at the New Jersey Motorsports Park. I enjoyed cheesesteaks in advance of my visit to the Old Bridge Township Park Raceway visit with PW. My turkey day visit to Wall Stadium was, as you might imagine, cold!

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Below is a key to surface types and track configurations so you can understand the above list just a little bit easier.

Surface types:  D-dirt; P-paved; M-mixed

Configuration types:  O-oval; RC-road course; F8-figure 8 track