Tying some racing history together
See last post in thread:
See it before it goes away.
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Inside the NASCAR Hall of Fame*********************

NASCAR Hall of Fame Tour 2013************************


NASCAR Hall of Fame Museum Tour... Charlotte, NC

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/a...ml#post9441920

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Abandoned tracks in Florida area and other places (updated)
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-fl-area.html

Bonneville History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...e-history.html

Daytona History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...a-history.html

Drag Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...ml#post9366328

This link has some historic drag racing pics.

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...pics-ever.html


Local historic drag racing track Twin City Oldsmar

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...florida-4.html


Indianapolis History

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9373490

24 Hours of Lemans history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-history.html


Lemans

Lime Rock Park history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/au...rock-park.html


Pikes Peak racing history
Is Pikes Peak a road Race?


https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362624


History of Race Cars

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9370578

Road Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...g-history.html

Sebring history

The way to part 2 "A brief History of Sebring Raceway" is here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...-40-posts.html
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This was the original brief history of Sebring part 1
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/general-car-chat/816701-sebring-raceway-brief-history-part-1-has-now-exceeded-40-posts-115-posts.html
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A bit of stock car racing history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362625

There are Old School Stock Car Pictures here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/e...-pictures.html

Tying some Tampa Racing history together with links: Tampa International Raceway (Fair Grounds)

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...l-raceway.html

 

Craig Breedlove, 2023

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emailBy Vintage Motorsport | April 6, 2023 12:56 PM ET

Five-time world land speed record holder and the first person in history to reach 400mph, 500mph, and 600mph, Craig Breedlove, passed away April 4, at the age of 86.

Born in Southern California in 1937, Breedlove had a lifelong passion for speed and engineering which began at a young age. He was infatuated with building and flying model airplanes until he moved onto cars at 13 and bought a ’34 Ford Coupe for $75. From there it was all about speed on land, but the aerodynamics origins would play a major part of the equation throughout his life.

Breedlove’s first record-breaking run came in 1963 when he drove his jet-powered vehicle, Spirit of America, to a top speed of 407mph. He broke his own record several times, culminating in 1965 when he became the first person to exceed 600mph, driving his new car, Spirit of America – Sonic 1, to a top speed of 600.601mph.

 

Breedlove, -2023 continued

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emailBy VM Staff | 4.6.23 8:53 AM

Five-time world land speed record holder and the first person in history to reach 400mph, 500mph, and 600mph, Craig Breedlove, passed away April 4, 2023, at the age of 86.

Born in Southern California in 1937, Breedlove had a lifelong passion for speed and engineering which began at a young age. He was infatuated with building and flying model airplanes until he moved onto cars at 13 and bought a ’34 Ford Coupe for $75. From there it was all about speed on land, but the aerodynamics origins would play a major part of the equation throughout his life.

Breedlove’s first record-breaking run came in 1963 when he drove his jet-powered vehicle, Spirit of America, to a top speed of 407 mph. He broke his own record several times, culminating in 1965 when he became the first person to exceed 600 mph, driving his new car, Spirit of America – Sonic 1, to a top speed of 600.601 mph.

Over the course of his career, Breedlove was honored with several accolades, including induction into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1993. He was a true pioneer of speed and his contributions to the field will never be forgotten.

Leigh Dorrington penned a fantastic three-part series about Breedlove just last year starting with the Mar/Apr 2022 issue. He had this to say about the passing of the motorsports icon:

“Craig Breedlove was the living Spirit of America. He discovered the Land Speed Record at the age of 12 when he saw a picture of John Cobb’s Railton Mobil Special and determined he would return the record to America. He succeeded in unimaginable ways and inspired generations. His passing is the end of an age.”

 

Bonneville Race Car Lost For Nearly 50 years | Barn Find Discovery

Ben Kahan
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37K views 2 days ago #1950s #classiccars #barnfind
In this video, Justin Arias recounts the extraordinary story of how he rediscovered his grandfather's record-setting yellow '37 Chevy race car with the help of his friend Christian and the automotive community. The car was built in tribute to their late high school buddy Kenny Bigelow, who was killed in a wreck in his '37 Chevy at El Mirage on October 21, 1951. The car was sold in 1957 and sat in a backyard in Long Beach, CA, for over 50 years. It was rediscovered by Justin Arias in 2023 and is now in the process of being restored. …

 

Peter Brock on how we can save Bonneville

How govt crapped on the citizens....AGAIN!
It wasn’t until the thousands of members of the racing community were united by dedicated individuals within the performance industry’s Save the Salt campaign that documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act disclosed what had really been going on. The wording on these original BLM leases stated that the mining concerns were contractually obligated to proceed with all haste until all potash was depleted, with no restoration of the surface required. For some 60 years, these leases had been in effect with no attempt made at reversing the damage—which continues to this day unchecked. By Peter Brock
Dec 2, 2023 | Peter Brock, Column, Bonneville Salt Flats | Posted in Columns | From the March 2021 issue | Never miss an article

For those who’ve never had the privilege of attending a speed meet on Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats, they’ve missed absorbing the aura of one of nature’s greatest wonders—a national treasure every bit as important to America and the world as Yellowstone or Yosemite.

Its brilliant, hard, white, billiard-table-smooth surface has been a magnet for those who seek record speeds since the early 1900s, when it became dangerously obvious that the softer sand beach near Daytona was simply too unpredictable for straight-line speeds over 150 mph. What has happened to Bonneville’s salt in those intervening years is a national disgrace, as those left in charge to preserve its majesty colluded to destroy, in less than 100 years, what it took nature millions to create.

Standing in the pits, Bonneville’s pristine saline racing surface stretches for miles, the end invisible beyond the curvature of the earth, making its entirety only visible from space.

What is unseen is its dwindling thickness. Back in the late ’30s, when England’s gentlemen speed kings—John Cobb, George Eyston, Reid Railton and Sir Malcolm Campbell—brought their massive, airplane-engined projectiles to set the world’s absolute speed records, the salt averaged some 4 feet in thickness, with occasional areas reaching some 6 feet.

Today, the best parts of Bonneville’s racing surface are less than 2 inches thick.
Does govt care? Hell no !

With no formal national oversight of the area until 1947, when Harry Truman established what would become the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, it was relatively easy for mining companies to quietly divert the mineral content from this “limitless” natural resource for private profit.

Back then, hardly anyone noticed or even cared except local hero Ab Jenkins, who began using the salt in 1925 to set various speed and endurance records—a vocation that lasted some 30 years, throughout which he encouraged the world’s best to come and compete on the safest, most beautiful racing surface in the world.

Members of the Southern California Timing Association negotiated their first meet in 1949, when they gained formal permission to use the salt from the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce—who, with Jenkins’s encouragement and guidance, finally understood the landscape’s economic potential for Utah.

Racers are not usually thought of as being environmentally conscious, but many concerned members of the SCTA could see the long-term damage being wrought by the extraction of salt and potash. They began trying, on their own time, to negotiate with the Bureau of Land Management in hopes of reversing the damage.

Years of study and countless meetings with mining engineers, government bureaucrats and environmentalists were frustrating. BLM officials would never allow members of the ad-hoc team to view the original leases signed by the early administrators of the BLM. F.U. to the racing public.

Officials of Kaiser Industries, the largest mining concern involved in removing the mineral content from the lakebed, were open to solving the problem. Perhaps because of all the good Kaiser had done in WWII, or maybe because of what it was paying to the BLM, its officials were reluctant to disclose the arrangement.

It wasn’t until the thousands of members of the racing community were united by dedicated individuals within the performance industry’s Save the Salt campaign that documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act disclosed what had really been going on. The wording on these original BLM leases stated that the mining concerns were contractually obligated to proceed with all haste until all potash was depleted, with no restoration of the surface required. For some 60 years, these leases had been in effect with no attempt made at reversing the damage—which continues to this day unchecked.

As a result of the efforts of the racers’ Save the Salt Foundation, Congress in 2018 voted to appropriate $5 million through the secretary of state to be awarded to the BLM for the specific purpose of reversing the damage to what remained of one of America’s great natural vistas.

The funds, however, were diverted to other BLM programs having nothing to do with Bonneville. Under continuing pressure from environmentalists and Save the Salt, the BLM and Utah’s Department of Natural Resources have since negotiated an agreement to create a 10-year, multi-million-dollar restoration program, with most of the money coming from the BLM plus donations from the racing community.

But do you think govt would give a damn? NO!

 

Tying some racing history together
See last post in thread:
See it before it goes away.
*****************************
Inside the NASCAR Hall of Fame*********************

NASCAR Hall of Fame Tour 2013************************


NASCAR Hall of Fame Museum Tour... Charlotte, NC

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/a...ml#post9441920

*************************************

Abandoned tracks in Florida area and other places (updated)
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-fl-area.html

Bonneville History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...e-history.html

Daytona History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...a-history.html

Drag Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...ml#post9366328

This link has some historic drag racing pics.

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...pics-ever.html


Local historic drag racing track Twin City Oldsmar

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...florida-4.html


Indianapolis History

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9373490

24 Hours of Lemans history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-history.html


Lemans

Lime Rock Park history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/au...rock-park.html


Pikes Peak racing history
Is Pikes Peak a road Race?

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362624

History of Race Cars

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9370578

Road Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...g-history.html

Sebring history

The way to part 2 "A brief History of Sebring Raceway" is here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...-40-posts.html
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This was the original brief history of Sebring part 1
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/general-car-chat/816701-sebring-raceway-brief-history-part-1-has-now-exceeded-40-posts-115-posts.html
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A bit of stock car racing history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362625

There are Old School Stock Car Pictures here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/e...-pictures.html

Tying some Tampa Racing history together with links: Tampa International Raceway (Fair Grounds)

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...l-raceway.html

 

The good ol days....
Hot chicks and nasty, dusty, hot........Bonneville...........RIP.

The environmental whackos destroyed it forever...as they always do.......to save the planet, the world, the children....BS BS BS

We've GOT to quit voting for leftist, socialist democrats......who only understand tax tax tax....spend spend.spend...

until there is no money left to rebuild........in ANY socialist country.

The US is wealthy enough in some places, it is a socialist paradise as far as sucking the life out of the US economy.

https://www.thefoat.com/marcelo_hotr...GFZCJfg%3D%3D/

 

Tying some racing history together See last post in thread: See it before it goes awayTying some racing history together
See last post in thread:
See it before it goes away.
*****************************
Inside the NASCAR Hall of Fame*********************

NASCAR Hall of Fame Tour 2013************************


NASCAR Hall of Fame Museum Tour... Charlotte, NC

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/a...ml#post9441920

*************************************

Abandoned tracks in Florida area and other places (updated)
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-fl-area.html

Bonneville History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...e-history.html

Daytona History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...a-history.html

Drag Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...ml#post9366328

This link has some historic drag racing pics.

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/dr...pics-ever.html


Local historic drag racing track Twin City Oldsmar

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...florida-4.html


Indianapolis History

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9373490

24 Hours of Lemans history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...s-history.html


Lemans

Lime Rock Park history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/au...rock-park.html


Pikes Peak racing history
Is Pikes Peak a road Race?

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362624

History of Race Cars

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9370578

Road Racing History
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...g-history.html

Sebring history

The way to part 2 "A brief History of Sebring Raceway" is here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...-40-posts.html
-------------------------------------------------
This was the original brief history of Sebring part 1
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/general-car-chat/816701-sebring-raceway-brief-history-part-1-has-now-exceeded-40-posts-115-posts.html
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A bit of stock car racing history

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...ml#post9362625

There are Old School Stock Car Pictures here:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/e...-pictures.html

Tying some Tampa Racing history together with links: Tampa International Raceway (Fair Grounds)

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/ge...l-raceway.html

 

JOHN RENWICK VINCENT ALTOMETHEUS AT PENDINE

Harvey Bowden
850 subscribers
101,143 views Jun 13, 2013

John Renwick fires up Vincent Altometheus on the dyno to check out the drive train before going to Pendine Sands for a record breaking attempt. Eddie Wallbank, the plumber, is in attendance with the methanol.

 

John Renwick Runs Pendine Sands

Gerry Jenkinson
134 subscribers
50,392 views Aug 10, 2013

John Renwick running Altometheus 1 at Pendine Sands, South Wales in August 2013.