San Antonio Raceway update

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by RJ Sledge

Unless you ran a glide with a lite converter and a big tire, there was little or no "Hook".
RJ

We use to run on a small airstrip. They'd set up some lights, but no track prep whatsoever. The starting line got so bad, I'd put a floor jack, a couple of spare tires and a big tool box in the trunk to help with traction.

Hey, it worked. I tied for 1st in points there one year and didn't go to all the races. This was a bracket track at the time. But I'd won some races there in Stock, back in '73-'74. They still used a flagman start back then. That was a trip. The slower car got so many feet head start, and had a better track surface to launch from.

The track was marked off for the small spots. But for the really long spots, the flagman would ride on the fender of the slow car and tell him where to stop. It was just his estimate. I once had to run a Pinto. He was supposed to get a 410 foot spot. He was so far down track, I could barely see the flagman's signals. The Pinto had won so many races, there was a bounty for anybody who could beat him. There was no breakout, so I beat him to the line and picked up the bounty. I was doing about 100mph and he was probably doing maybe 50. So he probably felt the suction as I went by.