April 3, 2004
Willow Springs International Raceway
Celebrating Fifty Years of Racing
November 23, 1953 —

Nice Day At Willow








Complete with Demonstration Joy-rides




And barbecue, followed by history lessons from those who were there, and bench-racing by the experts






Tom Cardin's Kurtis-on-Willow pictures



A couple from Torrey Pines
(mine)


(I don't know the author of this image, but that might be my 1949 Ford in the background)


I contributed these views to the Flickr group
"Trackscape: the motor racing circuit as a part of the landscape",
just to lend some perspective for those who haven't been there


"Big Willow" near us. The facilities upper left are associated with the much newer
(and smaller) (and less prestigious) "Streets Of Willow".
Up there at the very top, you are getting close to Edwards Air Force Base


Dramatizing the elevation difference between the Start-finish activities area,
and the "Balcony" at Willow Springs International Raceway


The long curve of Turn 3, the "Rabbit's Ear"; plenty of Antelope Valley, California
stretches away in this view to the southwest (or so)
City of Rosamond is to the east (our left)
Willow pages with a course diagram

1971 8mm film: On-track lap is from the Chevrolet VEGA Kammback. Fast lap ends because the Lime-Green Datsun went off-track in Turn 9, rolled itself into a smaller, rounder shape. We (Kammback and I) held the B-Sedan Solo One lap record here for a year (or so). You could look it up. (That's a copy of results from that November 25-26, 1972 Solo I Time Trial at Willow Springs) Although they list the Vega in A-sedan, the rule book for the next year showed the 1:56:23 as Solo I lap record in B-sedan

Links to more 8mm racing-oriented film from back in the day
 

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