Au Flamboro Speedway

[Ti-Gaz ! 0]

http://www.ontariooval.com/?p=19833

[Johnathan Schwemler 0]

Cool eh?

15 years ago we built a potent enduro car for Flamboro. They used to have an annual $10,000 to win enduro race. You had to camp out 2 days in advance of pit gate opening because the starting grid was based on how you were inline. When the cars were all lined up on the track they completely surrounded the track, 3 wide.

[Johnathan Schwemler 0]

Another sidetrack... completely unrelated to the original post, but kind of cool.


The first year we went down (to Flamboro's $10,000 to win Enduro) with a pit box and tire changing equipment etc. and then found out at the track they had an unusual rule. Drivers were not allowed to leave the track with the cars, that there was an area in the center of the infield (no pit road) that if you needed to make repairs that you would pull into. If you were one of the first cars with trouble, you unloaded your jack and tires from behind the driver's seat and made whatever repairs you needed to. If you were lucky enough to have trouble later in the race, anyone who had pulled out of the race would use their own equipment and tires to help you get back out onto the track faster.

IF Enduros were still the way they were 15 years ago that's probably all I would race. Most events were $5,000 to win and the top guys had 2 or 3 cars prepared the same. Our car was like many others, completely stock, with a little bit of an alignment, the strongest stock rims we could find and it looked like a late model between the firewalls.