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June 17, 2013 at
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Hope this works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Plu9LbemM&feature=youtu.be
The above Comments are satire & for entertainment
purposes only
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June 17, 2013 at
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June 18, 2013 at
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OUT STANDING. ,,,,, OUT STANDING. ,,,, JUST OUT STANDING. ,,,,, After all these years of seeing Mike smith with his camera at all these tracks . ,,,, As a kid. ,,,, driving up to ascot from San Diego with my Dad and my mom seamed it took for ever to get there. ,,,, but once you got there. ,,,, All that went away. ,,, The smell of Methanol . ,,,, the sound of the Sprints going around the track. ,, Standing in line , to get our tickets. ,,,, Just sent chills down my arms. Then the ride home. ,,,, Before we got back up on the freeway , talking to my dad about the show. ,,,, I was fast asleep in the back seat. ,,,,That was in the mid 50s ,,,,, all the way thru the 70s. ,,,, I got married 79. ,, my son was born 82. ,,,, The family trips started back to Ascot in 86 and went on until the closing of the track. ,,,,, This brought back a lot of the best family memories. ,,,,, Thank you MIKE SMITH. ,,,,,, John Jensen.
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June 18, 2013 at
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June 18, 2013 at
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"flat, narrow corners" ... "moist and tacky" ...
A long "paperclip" with a =very= smooth surface compared to almost everything else I've ever seen.......
"a hundred bucks a week to run the cars... now it's five hundred"
How much does it take to run a car for a single show now? ......
"those [big] tires increase the length of the flip"
But look at the catch fence in Turn One. ......
"rooster tails of wet clay"
Ever see a "rooster tail" at Ascot? I never did. ......
"1988 Turkey Night Grand Prix"
Only two more to go in Gardena. Chris knew it was going to close soon. Where were the Agajanian's looking at a "new facility?" Anyone know? (We were working on a large facility with Frank Arciero that was supposed to have included a clay track, but Palm Springs was even further from Gardena than Perris and could not have been a "series anchor" venue.)
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June 18, 2013 at
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June 18, 2013 at
09:42:46 PM by SVMike
Great video...thanks for posting it
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June 18, 2013 at
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Look no further than Fontana. The Agajanians looked at the property that Kaiser Steel had. What I heard was that they wanted to build a one mile paved oval and a dirt track. However when they found out how expensive it would be to remove the piles of slag, they lost interest. Enter Roger Penske and the rest is history.
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June 18, 2013 at
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Man that video brought back some great memories,Thanks for posting it.
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June 19, 2013 at
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June 19, 2013 at
02:02:15 AM by raj
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Posted By: harryfan on June 18 2013 at 09:43:39 PM
Look no further than Fontana. The Agajanians looked at the property that Kaiser Steel had. What I heard was that they wanted to build a one mile paved oval and a dirt track. However when they found out how expensive it would be to remove the piles of slag, they lost interest. Enter Roger Penske and the rest is history.
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The slag piles may or may not have been an issue, but I know enough about Penske's challenges in Fontana to know that cleaning up the groundwater contamination caused by Kaiser Steel played a role in getting the speedway built. I'm not sure how that worked =there=, but how it works in most other major developments is that money has to be found to contribute to the local EPA superfund (in this case the Chino Basin one) before a new development can be approved for a contaminant site. ...... Added thereto is the fact Penske's group was really temporary window dressing for the International Speedway Corporation (a France family enterprise to which Penske "sold" the track a few years after its opening), that everyone involved had immensely deep pockets, and that the LA market was viewed at the time as more worth the investment than it has turned out to be. [the Inland Empire, meaning Ontario and Fontana] "was not, is not, and never will be Charlotte or Indianapolis, let alone Daytona or Long Beach," one =very= knowledgeable party told us at a CART meeting in Indian Wells in 1992 when Fontana was just beginning to be talked about. Frank Arciero had by then about given up on Palm Springs and was beginning to look at Moreno Valley along Highway 60 about five miles west of the old Riverside Raceway. ...... Thus it may well be a "good thing" that the Agajanians elected to drop out of the running for a "big" facility.
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June 19, 2013 at
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Thanks for posting. I never made it to Ascot; it was gone by the time I ever reached Southern California. I really appreciate the history of the sport and get the feeling that Ascot was much like Reading or Flemington Fairgrounds back in my neck of the woods.
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June 22, 2013 at
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Great Video!! That was a wonderful walk down memory lane!! Thank you!
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June 23, 2013 at
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Posted By: Roy Bleckert on June 17 2013 at 06:40:39 PM
Hope this works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Plu9LbemM&feature=youtu.be
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Simply incredible and thanks so much for posting. Brings back plenty of memories...
I once thought I was wrong but soon discovered I was
mistaken.
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June 23, 2013 at
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The other great thing I remember about Ascot, was the FOOD! They had the best Race track food in the country!! And it was affordable. Not like what we have these days. I think Aggie would rent those spots out to outside vendors. What would keep Perris from doing the same. It looks to me like they are doing that at Orange Show. I had a grest Carnitas Burrito at the last show.
But Ascot was the best!!
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June 24, 2013 at
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Posted By: ziggy on June 23 2013 at 02:58:14 PM
The other great thing I remember about Ascot, was the FOOD! They had the best Race track food in the country!! And it was affordable. Not like what we have these days. I think Aggie would rent those spots out to outside vendors. What would keep Perris from doing the same. It looks to me like they are doing that at Orange Show. I had a grest Carnitas Burrito at the last show.
But Ascot was the best!!
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No... you mean like the mini donuts, and the baked potatoes, yes there was some good grub at Ascot. I have no true knowledge, but I am guessing that the PAS is in the same boat that almost every other fair facility is in, and that is the concessions are controlled by the fair, or at least dictated by the fair and they are getting a piece of all the action.
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June 24, 2013 at
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Posted By: ziggy on June 23 2013 at 02:58:14 PM
The other great thing I remember about Ascot, was the FOOD! They had the best Race track food in the country!! And it was affordable. Not like what we have these days. I think Aggie would rent those spots out to outside vendors. What would keep Perris from doing the same. It looks to me like they are doing that at Orange Show. I had a grest Carnitas Burrito at the last show.
But Ascot was the best!!
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The last show at the Orange Show. ,,,,, I had 2 bites of Ziggys Carnitas Burrito. ,,,, Double fisted ,,,,, Packed full of meat. ,,,,, Well worth the $5 bucks. ,,,,,,,, WOW, , STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS. ,,,,,,ASCOT was the best. ,,,, on the doughnuts ,,,,, You got a bakers dozen ,,,,, for $3 bucks. ,,,, Sugar and cinnamon !!!!!!!!! . ,,OH doctor. ,,,,,, ZZ
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June 25, 2013 at
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Let's not forget the GREAT Italian Sausage Sandwich's and the Australian Beers, those big 32 oz. cans that looked like a FRAM oil filter for a small block chevy. First time a had a sausage sandwich I unfolded the sandwich from the aluminum foil and took a few bites and promptly got marinara sause all over both hands, forearms, shorts, feet and grandstand footwell. Wrapped what was left of the sandwich back up in the foil and never did that again. I'd come to Ascot well oiled from a few ? Bud Lights that afternoon, get a sausage sandwich and a can of KB 8% Ausie beer and was good to go, for a while at least. Never worried about what to eat for dinner on the Saturday nights I went to Ascot, lots of good food and drink to chose from and saw the best non wing sprintcar action in America too.
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