Originally Posted by
John Schuster
Oval racing in the 90's with some buddies using 1/8th cars on newly paved parking lots in the INDY area was how I got started in this hobby. Nothing formal just a bunch of laughing and fun. Heck, we even talked the lady at the big high banked velodrome to let us run our cars for an hour. My buddy richened up his engine a little and I did not. Yep. I didn't get to use the whole hour. More like 5 minute's before she blew.
Good times! Good times!
We used to run at the Indy MWS races (80s) in the parking lot right beside the Velodrome. Just walking on it was fun. At the time they wouldn't let anything gas powered on it, in fear of the bikes slipping on an oil spot. That had to have been a blast!