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Re: Daytona Speedweek ?

To: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@charter.net>,
Subject: Re: Daytona Speedweek ?
From: Glenn Ridlen <gridlen@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:21:31 -0800 (PST)
The Daytona track was not even finished til 1959 so SCTA must have been first
                                                                                
                       Glenn
                                         Glen Barrett <speedtimer@charter.net> 
wrote:SCTA as early as 1957 called the event speedweek. There has been
conversation with the round track boys regarding who was first.
It was us.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russel Mack" 
To: ; 
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: Daytona Speedweek ?


> Tom:
> Don't know when SCTA began calling the August/ Bonneville event
> "Speedweek"-- but it seems like folks have been calling the winter/Daytona
> event "Speedweek" since at least '65, when a bunch of my buds went down
for
> "Speedweek" from Ft. Benning (GA). Of course, memory could be playing
> tricks on me, I guess.
> Russ, #1226B



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