I started a thread a couple of weeks ago about “Your First Mod Race.” All the responses were great but it brought up another fun question. We all know as drivers, crew members, fans and media personnel, that travelling to the track takes up a lot of time, money and sanity. As the saying goes "Getting there is half the fun.”
What’s your favorite track to travel to? Or what’s your least favorite? Most fun road trip, craziest method to get to the track. You get the idea.
I remember growing up on the East Bay in RI that Seekonk was by far the easiest trip. Less than 10 minutes door to door.
I also remember a lot of time with my Dad spent in the front seat of a 1970 Chevy Pickup, 3 on the tree with no AC blasting down the back roads of CT to try to find an “easy” way in to Thompson or Stafford. How many roads lead in to Thompson from RI, 20, 30?
Then there was a trip to the Pocono ROC race in the 81 or 82 that was, at the time, the longest single day trip in my life. Up at 0-dark-30 to drive from RI to Pocono, watch the full day of racing then drive back. This is obviously before the days of smart phones, AC, DVD, GPS and all that fun stuff. Talk about boring road time.
Definitely my most memorable travel event was a combo race at Oxford in 1983. Mods and Busch North. My dad was working with Eddie St Angelo. I was 13 at the time and in order for me to work on the car in the pits I had to get smuggled in to the track. Sandy MacKinnon (working with Joey Kourafas) was friends with Eddie. His trailer had a good sized stand up cargo box forward of the race car. They emptied it out and put a lawn chair in it. We stopped outside the track I jumped from the truck in to the cargo box and got in to the track. We waited 15 minutes I jumped out grabbed an air caddy and went to work. Good times.
So how about it? I bet the guys from Riverhead have a ton of stories about the Ferry.
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