There was a show on Speedvision about a month or so ago showing a race
at IRP on a Memorial Day weekend in the mid to late 60's. It was a
stock car race, run counter clockwise. There was no tower on the
dragstrip and it appeared they made a left at the end of the beginning
of the drag strip. They didn't show much of the rest of the course.
For pits, they pulled over to the left hand side about where the end of
the ¼ mile is now.
Fitz
Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com wrote:
> All the messages re: memories of various road courses
> has been very interesting. I hope this doesn't steer us
> off course too much.
>
> In the book "Andretti" (Mario Andretti, 1994?) there's
> a picture from the 1965 USAC Indycar season in which the
> big boys of the day were running an event on the IRP road
> course.
>
> The picture shows a pack of Indycars racing in the reverse
> direction as compared to modern day events. They're coming
> off the back straight (behind the oval), going through a
> left-right combo and then heading for today's corners 3,2,1.
>
> Does anyone know when the original IRP road course was
> modified to it's current 2.5 mile layout and the direction
> of travel reversed?
>
> Greg
> VSCDA Sprite #517
> Cedarburg, WI
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