My guess is maybe something like that happened? But nobody probably died? Stories tend to get stretched over the years. Only after the cars got to handling easier did it become harder for Foyt to dominate.Ĭan't recall any murderous drivers, but I can recall several misguided fans who like to cause trouble due to "catching the drift" in the wrong manner. Even Smokey Yunick stated that as long as the cars were hard to drive, AJ had an upper hand.
I have not heard of anyone making this claim.Īlso,just because the guy supposedly had an ex "AJ Foyt sprinter", does NOT mean the guy was fast because of it. The lesson I keep learning is that my "impressions" from 30+ years ago often fail to match up to reality. Had that happened just as the writer claimed in the other website, things would have been a lot different today. Posted By: TulsaTV on Novemat 11:46:29 AMįrom what I've known about this sport in this part of the country-Īn asswhipping is way different than killing someone. The link will let you read the responses the story.
Every once and a while racing is the topic over there. It is very interesting and I'm not even from Tulsa. I have been a viewer of the Tulsa TV website. I can remember how it played out, but I can't remember who was involved because everything was going so fast and we soon forgot who was driving what when it happened. The guy sitting next to me also knew what they had done. There was no mistaking the hit on the guy because it was exactly at the right place at the right moment. I was around some of the drivers involved after that and caught their drift. The local drivers involved were happy and nothing more was said about it other than, "It was a real tragedy," or some such BS. During the last heat of the night, because of the death, coming into turn #3 one local driver deliberately clipped his left-rear tire, which launched him up over the wall and killed him when he came smashing down on the other side. He was just too fast and a better driver. They tried blocking him but they couldn't get around him. After a few heats that the new guy had won, he was ganged up on by some locals. It had been carbureted from the original fuel-injected system in order to get it into the Super Modified category and was a speed demon and the driver was sharp. There was a new guy driving a previously-owned sprint car that had belonged to A. In the late 1960s or early 1970s, I don't remember what year, I and others, even if they didn't realize it, witnessed a murder at The Tulsa Speedway at the fairgrounds. What do you think about it? Does anyone remember an incident like this at the Tulsa Speedway? Topic: Tulsa Speedway mystery death in the 60s/70sĪ reader at my web site made a claim that I and other readers can't substantiate. Web Enter your search terms Submit search form
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