John F. Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States, the Cold War was worsening, Russia and the United States sent men into space, a gallon of gas cost 27 cents and A.J. Foyt won the Indianapolis 500 for the first time. The year was 1961. Let’s take a look at Chicago area racing 50 years ago.
SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — Jeff Choquette had never seen Illiana Motor Speedway before Saturday, but that didn’t stop him from winning the Sunoco LMS National Tour Harvest 150 at the Indiana half-mile paved oval.
Brett Sontag put his name in the record books along with those of Joe Shear, Dick Trickle, Steve Carlson and Mark Martin as the veteran captured the 45th annual National Short Track Championships Budweiser 200 super-late-model event at Rockford Speedway Sunday afternoon.
SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — Boris Jurkovic summed up his victory in Saturday night’s 49th annual Tony Bettenhausen Memorial 100 at Illiana Motor Speedway with four…
STOCKER: Santa Fe Speedway star Bill Van Allen used a Studebaker Lark to capture the track’s late-model title in 1963. (Vince Mayer Photo) Perhaps…
FENDERS: Roger McCluskey (1) and Don White (3) battle during 1970 USAC stock-car action at The Milwaukee Mile. (Russ Lake Photo)With Indianapolis 500 drivers…
SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — The out-of-towner beat the local favorites on their home turf as Michigan’s Brian Campbell captured the Derby Run for the Roses…
NOT TO BE DENIED: Casey Johnson (5) battles to the outside of James Swan during Sunday’s BRP Big 8 Late Model Series Spring Classic…
raceway_parkRobert “Bud” Koehler was definitely the “King of Raceway Park.” Winning 490 stock-car races, Koehler was an 11-time stock-car champion at the now-defunct speedway,…
early_1950sFrom 1935 until 1968, Soldier Field, now the home of the Chicago Bears, hosted midget auto races, hot-rod races, demolition derbies and stock-car racing….
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