There I saw Keith Kaufman #29 and Tom Helfrich #71 win main events. The race weekend before I went to the races at Great Southern were spent at Florida SpeedWeeks at first East Bay and then the Florida State Fairgrounds. going to a track just for the sake of going to a new track even if the racing might not be very good. However, it was not for several more years that I would “move over” from racechasing to trackchasing, i.e. It was during these times that I began to enjoy traveling long distances to see racing. I went to these tracks because they offered the very best racing at the very best tracks. Given that fact I am surprised it took me nine years to see a race down here.Īt the time I was a most active “racechaser. That famous first week we stayed at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the heart of the French Quarter. During these meetings we ate at the very best restaurants and had AAA accommodations. You can imagine how much fun it was for a 23-year old to spend the first full week of his new job wandering around the French Quarter. It was here that I developed my affection for being in the Bayou. The first week of employment was spent at a National Sales Meeting in New Orleans. Just nine years earlier I began my business career with Richardson-Vicks Inc. This helped me “finance” my racechasing efforts at the time. I frequently scheduled my race track visits on the front or back end of a business trip. I’m going to guess I was tying this track visit into a New Orleans based sales meeting. This was the only track I saw all weekend. This might have been the first time I ever saw stock cars racing with wings. Racing took place on a Sunday and Joel Wood driving a winged stock car #K-9 was the feature winner. Angie has just 1.5 square miles of land in it’s jurisdiction which is probably plenty for 240 people.
Some twenty years after my visit to Angie, it’s population is just 240 people! There were more people at the race than the population of the entire town. I guess I was lucky to have made a visit there in 1981…in the middle of the short lived history of this quarter-mile dirt track. Therefore all I can go on is my memory of the visit to Angie, Louisiana some 33 years from the time this is written.Īccording to the “History of the Great American Speedway” written by Allan Brown the Great Southern Speedway only raced from 1979-1983. I didn’t begin writing my famous Trackchaser Reports until about track #430. I was living in the greater Chicago area at the time. My very first track to see in Louisiana was back on March 15, 1981. Greetings from Angie, Louisiana From the travels and adventures of the “World’s #1 Trackchaser”
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