Quote Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
Dave,

I used to watch the same guys run the Indy cars on the dirt track at Springfield, IL. Plus Vukovich, Bettenhausen, Sachs, etc. I remember that Vukovich was killed at Indianapolis the year after I saw him at Springfield.
Yup, all those guys used to show up at a lot of the USAC sponsored State Fair races. They even ran the "big cars" on some of the old mile horse tracks. The whole month of May was always a great time to be in Indy, big time sprint and champ car races all over!!!! Wasn't unusual to see a lot of the Indy drivers show up at the local tracks around Indy. The weekend before Indy used the be a big USAC points race at Terra Haute.... caught that one a few times, the times we were there Foyt pretty much owned the place! Watched Foyt, Jim Hurtibese, and Gary Bettenhausen bangin' wheels for the entire 50 lap A Main. Foyt won it, but you could of covered all three cars with a blanket at the checkers!!!! Sure do miss seeing them, wingless sprinters are still wildest cars to race, whether you're driving or watching!!!!