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Ventura Raceway
Saturday, October 27th 2007
2007 Bandit-VRA Grand Slam Final
You Are All Fierce Kierce
It’s a well-known fact that Father Junipero Serra intended to found his
third California Mission in Ventura back in 1782. But he found the
Indians so wild, so dangerous and so fierce he wisely hit the road and
took it up to Mission San Antonia. It was one particular tribe in
Ventura that gave him so much grief. They lived with their backs to the
Pacific and kept their face in the wind. They were so protective and
vigilant of their native grounds that when Serra came back eleven years
later he was forced to found San Buenaventura Mission much further back
from the ocean. The natives protected their tribal grounds for racing
and it eventually become Ventura Raceway. That tribe was known as
L’Kierce. Over time, they became known as the Fierce Kierce…Continue story
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