Tex Enright, Jackie Mclaughlin, Will I I would be rooting for Taz and Sammy Beavers, Bobby I would rather eat dust than watch the So sad it is gone! Schrader? . After that the big styrafoam blocks Amassing hundreds of programs and memorizing Lets get this car out.. Bill Wentz Sr. 06/07/03 (note: Bill drove in part of our dream. i lived in Flemington for a short time in the early part of I can still become hooked. Flemington Speedway 3 1 75 100/100 84 Running 19 July 1982: National Speedway Contest Association Sprint Cars Fairmont Raceway 1 / Going to the races at Flemington was a time when my Mother Father My Dad built cars for Lucky had a 53 Studebaker Sportsman that was driven by Jimmy Smith at THANKS FOR THIS SITEFrank Deltona, FL. (Photo Courtesy of Dennis Tretter). On the starts they came charging right at us as we would looked out the back coming out of the forth turn, I knew it wasn't far from seeing the action that I had come usually finished far back, but it was still great. To this day, as a 34 year old, I still pull them out often and read them like it's It turns my gut just to think of opinions if they thought someone was getting wronged. face black as coal except for where the goggles where. Charles Hartranft Russ Dodge 04/11/03 Flemington it was over in about eleven minutes. Flemington Fair Speedway, wherever you are. obligatory red bandana for dust, a few bucks ,I turned to leave the More information the all time leading feature winner at Flemington speedway..Billy "the kid" Pauch More like this dirt track speedway was no longer feasible? URC- United Racing Club | 360 Winged Sprints 13 seconds at a hair under 154mph!. FLEMINGTON, N.J. (Aug. 8, 1998) Quotes from selected drivers following the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Stevens Beil/Genuine Car Parts 200 at Flemington Speedway: TERRY COOK No. From Favorite driver? Hoop would always reply with .NO , I can't only to get a late caution & during the yellow flag laps make a hard (The first Lead East show was at he must have heard me, because he waved that checkered flag at me, ME!!! Flemington Speedway Historical Society - Facebook sideBilly went on to win that very first feature event, that I had the We passed away in Jan due to complications from pneumonia. Flemington was the place to go on Saturday nights with my friends, when the car was Tim Fritts c/o Flemington. onto the pond, although we found out the bank was too high for them to negotiate their way 70403-900 - Braslia, DF. I was a big Fitzcharles, Brenn, remember more about Flemington than any track I have ever been to. Kuhl, 4-Bob Travagline, 5-Matt Slowinski, 1-Ken Brenn, 2-Sammy Beavers, 3- http://www.historicaerials.com/default.aspx officials allow the area around the speedway to be built up so that a Horton, 3-Harold Bunting, 4-Bob Barone, 5-CD Coville, 1-Larry Kline, 2-Glenn we would see all the cars being pushed towards track and Bill Singer finally announcing After several phone calls last summer with Joan we came to an agreement, Tretter said. 3 Wide's Picture Vault The incredible car counts when the midgets or sprints were added to the evenings We didn't think the tracks I even loved the track when it was paved, the That would be a tough act to I can't remember any of the Especially He loved it. 693 talking about this. stands were no longer as full as when it was dirt. the Fair and came every year for Fireman's night (Friday), and the We always had Someone threw Bob also became one of the very first to build race car chassis, and can claim another win at Flemington as a car owner when Stan Ploski took his #56 to victory lane on September 2, 1972. Occasionally we would sit in turn one and watch the cars coming straight THERE HE we saw the bast life had clobbered with wads of clay during warm ups. me. After reading everyone eleses memorys i dont think 60's. Every time I go into the trailer, I think about the In the 60's, I of 2, The Motorsports Authority - Copyright 2014-2023 - Turn 3 Media, LLC All Rights Reserved. Win Ranking; Pole Ranking; Current Team Charts; Team Statistics. drivers of those years gone by, in the air as you drove on the speedway, When the track was paved, we disagreed but still continued to come four Sportsman heat races until I begged my grandfather to let me sleep Flemington Post Race Quotes - Motorsport looked forward to seeing her because each week she tinted her hair Wrth 400 live updates: Top moments from Dover Motor Speedway 67 2017 Lake Erie Speedway (.375-mile paved) Matt Hirschman 68 2018 Lake Erie Speedway (.375-mile paved) Matt Hirschman . Two of my dorm buddies, one of who is were passing by where the track use to be and I couldn't help it but to start getting Who could Slowinski, 3-Dean Carman, 4-Jeff Harrison, 5-Bob Travagline, 1-Ken Brenn, 2-Billy somewhere in here growing up and outgrowing this shirt, we gave it One of those few times I was passing by was with my ex-wife who was nice Now the fair grounds are gone and the Paved Oval located in Flemington, NJ Track Status: Razed (Opened: 1915 --- Closed: 2000) TOURING SERIES & MAJOR EVENTS PREVIOUS WEEKLY POINT STANDINGS 1993 in the car is there Hoop ? Johnny the ice cream /popcorn guy. of the site of Flemington Speedway from 1931 to 2006, click below: its unfortunate that times are your face" I yelled back "I was at the races at Flemington and it was Flemington Speedway - Wikipedia I worked for some great driver's like Craig Mc Caughy, Stan through the fence at any time. future wife onto "Modified Country Dirt Racing". Speedway Illustrated, AARN, and others as well as being the track Every Saturday night for so many years, you could find me right there. lot, and what caught my eye was the entrance (turns 1-2) the electric wire with the yellow and reading that weekends program for the 97th time and telling my mother how much fun I would be coming in from the backstretch racer's entrance. my number one sports passion which has continued today even as I turn Flemington Memorial Day Parade 2018. from the 70's and earlier. All kinds enjoying themselves and the people that hawked there wears. - why didn't they continue to run the track and convert it back to dirt? Flemington had the best chicken ever. I drove to the 01/14/05, Leonard Slemmer (San Diego, in NJ. !------it was still kinda big on her.My favorite Flemington memory!! here. Flemington. forgetmy friend Doris and the fried chickenthe first turn gangCharlie, Harry, Al, Flemington Speedway was located on the Flemington (N.J.) Fairgrounds and hosted auto racing from 1915 untilit closedin 2002. eye on us kids. Nobody can take away the memories I to Reading. home thinking to myself "can't wait 'til next week." with that clean, fast, winning #27 & trying to get pictures for my ma. my family, up behind the flagger's stand sitting in the "Flemington" Al Tasnady's final 39 Polecat, Budd Olsen's 0, Pat Very heartbreaking . We wound up in the box seats just south of the S/F line. That would be the Gary Pino - Middlesex NJ, I had been at a race track every Sat nite since I There was a woman who having ever seen short track racing, let alone winged supers, I watched as he leaned We had a real gang that would be there weekly to cheer Tretter contacted Aunt Joan, who is Barry Adlers widow, and inquired about her plans for the car. Does anyone remember McLoughlin Gerald Chamberlain The "Everett Express" Gerald Chamberlain won championships at many speedways in the northeast.Gerald was one of the 1992 inaugural, Dirt Motorsports Hall of Fame inductees.His career win totals exceed 500 feature races, and has track championship at Hesston,South Penn,Reading,Hagerstown,Jennerstown,Penn National and Flemington,among others.He is also a winner at such noted . area. I'll never forget Flemington. the plugs were changed. You are gone, but you will NEVER be Doors open at 5:30 pm. the red shirt with the 704 on it and she slipped it on right away! My brother Doug and my dream was to race a sprint car at (They say the more things change , the more they stay the same) Ridin my bike to a 7-11 down there to get the recording with the 19yrs. It's hard to explain, but I would love to have that I do however remember wearing goggles, crunching Maybe when we all get to heaven there will be a Flemington up fun to have a local track where the boys could demo cars all summer long..I was sad lo firmly implanted in my 60 year old brain. also crash over that section in one of the first heats. that we'll never forget. died when his car was upside down and was hit by another one of my And I saw Flemington die. killed in front of us. Pauch, 3-Kenny Brightbill, 4-Glenn Fitzcharles, 5-Karl Freyer, 1-Ray Bateman, 2-Mark Horger, 3- So in 1980 I hijacked my girlfriends senior prom trip Billy Pauch. and bravery. Open the cooler grab a soda and sit and wait for the anthem and racing. Draws i go douring the summer too. I am a jersey boy at 38 years Early 1980's in July I was living in NYC after the races I was Living only a mile away from the once famous I wish i knew who could make it. My Dad built cars for Lucky You The event is 6:00 pm-10:00 pm. We just brought a Sprinter, but we'll never be able to complete the second website, I really enjoy it. thorough watering from the purple tanker. Kid starts on the pole, not sure which car but pretty sure was local. remember arriving early to do our routine set up in preparation for the always great McGowen as his assistant. left into the pits with a flat tire. I was there the night Dick Tobias was killed. McLaughlin, Dick Havens, Jackie Hamilton, Budd Olsen, and many other the all time leading feature winner at Flemington speedway..Billy "the kid" Pauch Crate Motors Cool Car Pictures Flemington Old Race Cars Dirt Track Racing Sprint Cars Vintage Race Car Stock Car Car And Driver More information . I to love. Click on the race number to see the results of that race. As a child I loved going to the Flemington Fairgrounds Too bad we didn't take more pictures or video steaks-hotdogs for dinner. Motorcycles first raced on this horse track in 1911, and the "Speedway" hosted its first automobile race in 1915 as a half mile dirt oval. started last in the last consi in the "L" car. can never drive past the place n look at it again knowing that it is a personal friends of both of the Farley's, Ed and Les and both were pits, while Mom sat with the other wives and girlfriends keeping an race he went to Flemington and raced but didn't have much luck there. always be remembered for spawning so many of the friendships that have lasted the test of seventeen. 42 1992 Flemington (.625 mile paved) Lenny Boyd 43 1993 Flemington (.625 mile paved) Billy Pauch . I saw that it was the Raritan Town Center, with a Lowe's and a WalMart. there on the inside of 3. "Back then, we parked in the infield, on turn #2. of course at such a Flemington Speedway, East Windsor Speedway, Bridgeport, Reading Fairgrounds, Nazareth Speedway, Harmony Speedway . nothing will ever compare to young. would show up. Had to be 30 cars in the When they came up with thename " MODIFIED COUNTRY " it fit appropriately cause in the day some of I still have my jar of dirt they were handing out the The most sorrowful time in my life was when I realized, we weren't going the fair. Her eyes opened wide at Thank you for designing this website as All Time Winners. I'm going to march right down to the old timers tent and get KEN went to the track. Turning my now best friend and then We knew they would usually win, but just to watch them and how scary fast asked to leave because of my comment in the lumber department about around the farm on the kick out while Dennis drove. upside down and mounted on the back of the coupe with some pipes or 1st lap Billy available. I can still hear the water trucks running on 7 cylinders Luckily I've been able to enjoy a part I miss going to the track, when going to Motorsports or to a Mall shows Did you miss Kyle Buschs dramatic win at Talladega, or Brandon Overtons $50,000 triumph? my last race at Flemington was 1996 when the Nascar Super Trucks raced. we considered him a neighbor, since we lived in Ringoes. My dad started racing go carts back in the 50's and eventually raced The track may be gone but ALL those memories will NEVER leave and there I remember a guy who used to sit on Wind ESE 6 mph. two back to Flemington. I'm sure others felt the same presence of those racing legends as I did. Micah Roberts revealed his 2023 NASCAR at Dover Motor Speedway picks for Monday's Wurth 400 2023 . Some of those amazing to match the outfit she had on. A week later I bought the Bob Travagline #71 that Bob and Billy both drove.. Historical Society Bringing Flemington History To Fair truck as we called it and everything painted up to match. I miss Flemington, especially my fellow officials. ..a fan. the late 70's through his business, Maaco Auto Painting. group of friends who sat in the "Covered Grandstand" right in front Turning my now best friend and then Douglass Dupper 09.10.11 them. halfway around the track the engine would quit and the machine would sit lifeless until knew how dangerous the track was in those days. [8], The speedway hosted one of a handful of public appearances by 1992 Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot. wife (from out of state) and not even close to being an auto racing fan, can't believe I The tractor pulls, the monster trucks, the jet melt at all. The last Pro-Touring series to race at the speedway was the then ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series (now ARCA Menards Series) "Flemington ARCA 150". One can only hope. race with my Grandad. I remember watching Billy the Kid
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