Saltend Speedway Revised
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:40 amSpring has come at last in Yorkshire.
With the thaw came time to tidy away the Ice Racing track.
This meant clearing space by shortening the 16x4 oval.
Reduced to 12x4.I realise it is a little small by the standards of serious oval racers, but oval racing in UK has always been on a much smaller scale than in USA.
Stock Car racing began here in the mid 50s, often in a stadium which already contained a Greyhound racing track(dogs;not buses), and a football pitch.
The infield was marked with painted 50 gallon drums
And the cars were kept out of the crowd by a strained wire fence with scrap tyres threaded over the posts
To be honest, the posts seem to have been I-section girders, not telegraph poles.
You can see that I had laboriously cut 50-odd tyres from auto heater hose before discovering ready-made 1/32 scrap tyres on e-bay.(Agricultural model of silage-covering tarpaulin, with the tyres to weigh it down).
Now to get cracking on some stock cars of the era . . .
David.
With the thaw came time to tidy away the Ice Racing track.
This meant clearing space by shortening the 16x4 oval.
Reduced to 12x4.I realise it is a little small by the standards of serious oval racers, but oval racing in UK has always been on a much smaller scale than in USA.
Stock Car racing began here in the mid 50s, often in a stadium which already contained a Greyhound racing track(dogs;not buses), and a football pitch.
The infield was marked with painted 50 gallon drums
And the cars were kept out of the crowd by a strained wire fence with scrap tyres threaded over the posts
To be honest, the posts seem to have been I-section girders, not telegraph poles.
You can see that I had laboriously cut 50-odd tyres from auto heater hose before discovering ready-made 1/32 scrap tyres on e-bay.(Agricultural model of silage-covering tarpaulin, with the tyres to weigh it down).
Now to get cracking on some stock cars of the era . . .
David.