Thursday, August 7, 2008

Langley Speedway, June 26, 1966


Rain, what was it the sports writers liked to call it, Jupe Pluvious?, stopped the racing card part way into the afternoon.

Up till then the racing went as follows:

55 cars, 4000 in attendance.

A modified dash:

1st, Bob Horton
2nd, Lloyd Armey
3rd, Butch Gilbert

B modified dash:

1st, Carl Detillion
2nd, Don Putnam
3rd, George Wyse

modified stock dash:

1st, Larry Gibbons (LARA)
2nd, Doug Firth (LARA)

early-late B dash, flathead:

1st, Wayne Trotter (LARA)
2nd, Bob Franks (LARA)


early-late A dash, flathead:

1st, Carman Parton (LARA)
2nd, Bill Mandy (LARA)
3rd, Otto Hein (ELRA)

ELRA overhead dash:

1st, Mac Morison
2nd, Gord Hemrich
3rd, Clare Walsh

1st early-late heat:

1st, Tom Waltko
2nd, Doug Phillips
3rd, Al Howie

2nd early-late heat:

1st, Rick Lester
2nd, Clarence Regenwetter


And then the rains came.

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