Comments on: Santa Fe Speedway https://randylewis.org/santa-fe-speedway/ The World's #1 Track Chaser Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Randy Lewis https://randylewis.org/santa-fe-speedway/#comment-368285 Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:20:10 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3231#comment-368285 In reply to Wink Dinkerson.

Hi Wink, Thanks for your notes about Santa Fe. That was our home track from 1980-1983 along with the Rockford Speedway. Good times at Santa Fe. Too bad “progress” never stops and places like Santa Fe can now only live on in our memories. Thanks for sharing! Best, Randy

]]> By: Wink Dinkerson https://randylewis.org/santa-fe-speedway/#comment-368282 Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:54:06 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3231#comment-368282 My wife grew up near the track. Her dad was friends with the Tiedts and still gets dinner out with one of them.

On Saturday nights after dates with my girlfriend I had to time my exit home as all the spectators would run me down in my little Datsun. It was also loud but they didn’t think anything of it living near the track.

If you parked on 91st street there was an inch of dust on your car and if you parked in the wooded random lot leaving took an hour. Dollar beers and demolishion night was a riot.

I guess we’ve changed as we’re not going to races much. Too bad.

]]> By: LEWIS SHARP https://randylewis.org/santa-fe-speedway/#comment-305751 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 01:10:00 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3231#comment-305751 who was the guy that ran an oldsmobile #88 i think van allens closet compotition 57 58?

]]> By: Terrence Moisan MD https://randylewis.org/santa-fe-speedway/#comment-97176 Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:50:39 +0000 http://randylewis.org/?p=3231#comment-97176 Bill Van Allen raced for my father when I was young (Larry Moisan-Palos Pk) and became like a family member and a real role model in an era when stock car racing was coming out of the back country of N. Carolina, etc. Many of the greats raced at Santa Fe and Raceway and I got to meet them when I was young. Even Jack Brickhouse was an announcer at the track for a while. Bill was like an “uncle” to me, almost until he died. He was one of the most respected and winning drivers and we ran out of space for all the trophies! After his Nash days, he loved his Larks. He never wrestled the car, was unbelievably smooth and won the races by being the best in traffic in the turns. Even though my path eventually led to engineering and medicine, there were very few like “Billy”, a true inspiration and gentleman.

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