The . It was on that date that Larret (Larry) "Crash" Crockett was fatally injured. On June 20th, 1965, Kenyon's engine blows at Langhorne, PA, causing a fiery crash that puts him in the hospital fighting for his life. mile track at Langhorne. Nelson Applegate suffered an apparent skull fracture when he reportedly bounced his car over the guardrail. Marvin passed away 2 hours later. was a member of the graduating class of 1956 from the Pearl River, New York High School. The Veith/Ward combo was 10th, with 94 laps show. By a stroke of luck for a track of its age, Daytona has never recorded any spectator deaths. This auction is for a NEW 1960's 8x10 Inch B&W PHOTO of 234903308877 And tragedy also. Fonda Speedway. According to a count by Autoweek, Langhorne Speedway took the lives of 27 people in its short 45 years of operation. Note the burning fuel on steel guard rail in background. News. Tragedy Hits Racing Family for Third Time : Oldest Son Is Latest Victim as He Dies From Car Crash at Kalamazoo Speedway By TRACY DODDS May 2, 1989 12 AM PT Times Staff Writer Jerry Landon died. The Race history Langhorne in NASCAR's pioneering years. "I hardly slept the night before. FOR SALE! It was all over for Nazaruk, in an almost Three-time Indy champ Bobby Unser agrees. Bob Sweikert, Bobby Grim, Larry Crockett, Fred Jiggs Peters, Hank Rogers, Ernie McCoy, Mike Nazaruk, Al Herman, Russ Klar, usually drew quite a few cars from the mid-west. Dirt track racing has been around since the 1920s and the Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania was one of the very first tracks. was a consolation race and Crockett won that, with OConnor and , Pat Langhorne Speedway was an automobile racetrack in Middletown Township, Bucks County, near the borough of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. ", The car landed on Bryan several times before coming to rest right-side up. Thomson, Keller and Musselman. the September 11, 1949 (200 Miles at Langhorne Speedway) to the September 15, 1957 (300 Miles at Langhorne Speedway) Search DriverAverages. Little With 10 deaths in its short 32 years of operation, it may be for the best that Riverside is gone. dont think that there was a worse year than 1955 as far as deaths in auto took Amick 1:03:01.463 to go 100 miles. Nobody liked it, and the ones who said they did were lying. Team Tactics Come Into Play a photo of Mike Nazaruk, supposedly on his last lap Langhorne Speedway hosted its final race in October 1971, six months after drivers voted to boycott the track because it was so treacherous. From its earliest days, Daytona was synonymous with racing fatalities: two drivers lost their lives in its first yearone just less than two weeks before the original Daytona 500 was held. According to Riggs, nearly two dozen drivers were killed at the 'Horne, along with another dozen or so. took 14:39.05 to go the 25 miles, and the average speed was 102.383 MPH. Iron Mike Nazaruk won that day, and a short The idea behind the paving was to try to get away from the fatalities and the injuries, Riggs said. They called Jimmy Bryan "Cowboy" because he'd bucked broncos before going racing. The Speedway hosted the nation's most noted race for the Modified division; the first post-war stock car race run at the facility was a National Championship Stock Car Circuit (a forerunner to NASCAR) race in 1947, with Bob Flock taking home the checkered flag. A Wild Dirt Track Crash From 1951. Occurring on 14th June at the Langhorne Speedway, the race would ultimately be won by polesitter Bobby Unser in an Eagle-Offenhauser, his second consecutive victory at the event. Its most recent casualty was in 1996. Most of the original shopping center's stores are now gone, but a Kmart and a historical marker remain. OConnor, Jerry Hoyt, Mike Magill, Duane Carter, Charlie, Some Langhorne Speedway: 1.0 mi./1.609 km. first two rows of the feature consisted of Musselman As with all forms of racing, the majority of serious accidents occur at high speed, so the accidents that happen tend to be of the puckering variety. back in time. Magill and Thomson, and was challenging Musselman for Unclaimed. three in a row came to an end. the start, Mussleman and Thomson were one and two, NASCAR learned a sour lesson as a result of the crash, and mandated head restraints. You had to be really, really on your toes to be competitive. [2][3] That same month, the U.S. government banned all forms of auto racing due to America's involvement in World War II. Marvin passed away 2 hours later. AAA also had a sprint car race scheduled for out in the mid-west, at Salem. It's no coincidence that only the best of the best won at Langhorne, and the victory roll features many of the greatest legends of the '30s and '40s: Mauri Rose, "Wild" Bill Cummings, Duke Nalon, Ted Horn, the incomparable Rex Mays. race, so it seemed, was gong to be a third straight win at Langhorne, for Jimmy at Langhorne, on May 1, 1955. rough track played havoc with both drivers and machines. first two rows of the feature consisted of. hesitant, at first, since we had a special graduating (religious) service at again he was hitting the fuel tank with his hand, signaling his crew that he As much power as we had, youd run that thing full blast all the way around. Little On January 22, 1967, William A. Langhorne was reshaped as a D and paved in 1965. up, from the racing surface, and if some one was rim-riding, chances are that LANGHORNE, Pa., March 20 (AP)--Larry Crockett was killed today when his racing car spun out of control at Langhorne Speedway. Both cars caught fire. Explore. thumb had to be amputated in the hospital. Fried and Gerber announced the sale of the property to mall developers in 1967, but the speedway held on through five more seasons. Dick Frazier, Al Herman, Charlie Musselman, Pat Clarence told me that he took a crew up there and poured concrete footers and then put in a concrete table across the track about 10 feet in, said L. Spencer Riggs, author of Langhorne! a year later, it was returned to him, the thumb part still in the glove. I had seen so much happen there. Courtesy of Lou Lazarro Pete, wearing his All Star League helmet, found himself in the Durham 222 midget. "That was a track that separated the men from the boys," he says. It also marked the final IndyCar race to be held at the circuit. Courtesy of Jim Wilmore A momentous trophy for Pete after his Langhorne victory. From 1951 to 1957, the race was sanctioned by NASCAR. The Heres pioneered by Dorothy Levitt only a few years before. Our car experts choose every product we feature. . As a result, the speedway sat idle and did not host a race of any kind until 1946. In the following 11 years, four more were killed at the track, and in 1983, the 10th and final fatality at Riverside occurred, when ex-Formula 1 and Le Mans driver Rolf Stommelen's IMSA GTP Porsche lost its wing at 190 MPH. "It wasn't just the track," Dallenbach says. got the lead and pulled away slowly. Some of those that perished Langhorne was also featured prominently in NASCAR's early years, and hosted at least one NASCAR-sanctioned race every year from 1949 to 1957. lead over teammate Thomson and third place running Sostilio. 18 drivers, five motorcycle riders, three spectators, and one flagman have died at the track. lap. Bryan, intent on making The speedway was razed. A strapping, charismatic figure often seen with a hearty smile and his signature stogie, he was a three-time national champion and dirt-track colossus who semi-retired after winning Indy in 1958. Autoweek participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. the most dangerous, most treacherous, most murderous track there ever was. A heavily overgrown wooded area has completely enveloped the infield and backstretch, while asphalt parking lots around the perimeter of the site cover up the rest. Despite temperatures that reached 106 degrees, Bryan wasted no time getting back up to speed. It was known in part for its pothole-infested first sector, known as "Puke Hollow." At the beginning of his long Indy car career, Wally Dallenbach remembers driving a 1957 Oldsmobile -- "a huge tank of a car," he says -- in a strange race featuring 15 modifieds, 15 late-models, and 15 sports cars. You know in your mind you could get killed or seriously injured, but you dont think about it. A special thanks to Eric Cardona for sharing this historic footage.Apart from Mann's fatal crash, there were several injuries during the race. Even today, 40-odd years since the track was razed to make way for a shopping center, the men who raced there still speak about the place with respect and awe. either stayed home due to some illness that he had that day, or if he had retired from competition during the LeMans race, right Next came Nazaruk 33.202, Joe Sostilio 33.233, Mike Magill 33.329 and Tommy Hinnershitz 33.671. Johnny Boyd (pictured below) was badly burned when his cars fuel tank was knocked off, and cars broke up and got upside down in Puke Hollow. So how do we rank the most dangerous tracks in America? The following year, another driver was killed. And some of those who did never came home. Garrett, Flaherty, Rathmann, McWithey, In the 50-mile feature, held as usual during the worst of Pennsylvania's summer heat, Russ Snowberger, who would go on to achieve considerable fame at Indianapolis, was overcome by the combination of humidity, dust, bumps, and fumes from his straight-eight Miller. Ive I was wearing thin leather gloves, and I had blisters out the wazoo. Considering the risk of speed record attempts and the 104 years of doing so at Bonneville, we can hope that this count stays low, if not static. The USAC races featured (and were won by) notable racers such as A. J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Bobby Unser, Gordon Johncock, Lloyd Ruby, and Eddie Sachs. I from the book Langhorne! If you could get in there at full speed and make it through, youve just created an act of God, Unser said. Palm Beach Speedway in West Palm Beach, Florida, was a half-mile, dirt track that saw its first NASCAR event when it opened the 1952 NASCAR season on January 20, 1952. This is not Mann's fatal flip as you can see the #43 of Mann spinning into the wreckage at the end of the clip. Warm or cold no idea. "When the race was over," he recalls, "you just threw your uniform away.". Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. Bryan. Amick was but Nazaruk pretty quickly disposed of Thomson, and When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. NR2003 name NR2003 year NR2003 sky Date of .ptf Date of race.lp Author Real name Length (mi) Ban king Location State Country Region Racing started Racing ended Marvin's car hit the outside fence, flipped high in the air and landed on Bud Tinglestad's car. Bob Veith asked for The facility features a 1/2-mile tri-oval as well as a 1/4-mile oval. Tradues em contexto de "making the day" en ingls-portugus da Reverso Context : Getting up early has these advantages, as well as making the day much longer and consequently meaning much more time to live. The payoff was a record setting, whopping 43 Langhorne Speedway Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Editorial Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 43 Langhorne Speedway Premium High Res Photos Browse 43 langhorne speedway stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Responding to concerns about safety, track owners Irv Fried and Al Gerber paved Langhorne and reconfigured it to create a short straight on the back side of the circuit, thereby turning the "O" into a "D." There were still plenty of gruesome wrecks -- Mel Kenyon lost the fingers on his left hand in a fire in the first Champ Car race after the track was pavedbut there were no more fatalities. Charlotte has since extended the fencing to 24 and 12 feet respectively. When the track was reconfigured and paved over in 1965, the smooth and level asphalt racing surface essentially prevented the formation of any rough patches and effectively eliminated the "hollow". As sad as it is to say, the Milwaukee Mile may go the way of the nine known to have lost their lives in incidents at the track between 1930 and 1982. 109 12K views 2 years ago An unknown driver flips during the 250-mile NASCAR Grand National race at Langhorne Speedway held on September 14, 1952. No Mans Land, an extensive history of the speedway. victory something he couldnt do in 1955, when he had to ask for relief after Langhorne Speedway, which opened in 1926 and was closed in 1971 to make way for a shopping center, also played host to Indy-car races. You wanted more power.. But he missed the challenge of racing at Langhorne. "One of the spectators said, 'He's throwing up there in Puke Hollow,'" Riggs says, "and it stuck.". Garrett, who had passed Veith, would assume And some of those who did never came home. Keep in mind all these cars were powered by 220 cubic inch Ofenhauser engines, back then, and they ran on skinny Land Speed Racer Memorial registers 20 fatalities as part of record attempts at El Mirage, though the timeline of lives lost at El Mirage does not align those at Bonneville, with the most recent listed fatal accident occurring in 1995, and most between 1940 and 1970. It hosted a NASCAR inaugural race in 1949. Notable drivers Doc Mackenzie, Joie Chitwood, Rex Mays, Lee Petty, Dutch Hoag, A.J. About Langhorne Speedway Opened in 1926, this circular one-mile dirt track was known as the "Big Left Turn." It hosted one of NASCAR's inaugural races in 1949. Watson-built Leader Card Special. Foyt, and Mario Andretti raced here in stock, midget, sprint, and Indy cars. High-profile American racing clubs like the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), American Automobile Association (AAA), and United States Auto Club (USAC) made Langhorne one of the stops on their national circuits. The track at Langhorne was higher at that end, and quite a bit lower in what you lap, Bryan So take a moment to salute Langhorne Speedway. George Moscot and his partner Ray owned the car . Thomson, Russo, McWithey He qualified on the outside of the front row and took the lead at the start. The rate of deaths in this millennium is barely half that of what it was in the 1900s, and trending downward still. Bobby Unser qualified on the pole at a record speed of 129.483 mph in an Eagle owned by Ralph Wilke, whose father had owned the car driven by Jimmy Bryan the day he died. Jimmy Get the best deals for langhorne speedway at eBay.com. on the track, completing 83 laps. Many drivers flat refused to go to Langhorne. If something went wrong, you were in the wall.". needed more fuel. the last row. Fortunately, his crew chief was Tommy Hinnershitz, a prewar dirt-track champion who'd unlocked Langhorne's secrets. Among the drivers who perished at Langhorne were Jimmy Bryan (1960), one of the most talented drivers to ever sit in an Indy car, and Larry Mann (1952), the first driver to die of injuries suffered in a race in what is now the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. My earliest Langhorne program is from May 1939 when Duke Nalon won the feature " Orange City Hotel Speedstakes" from Tommy Hinnershitz. I Langhorne, Penn. it three in a row, caught Hartley, and passed him on the 81st Courtesy of Jim Wilmore The Langhorne victory. The circuit's ownership realized how dangerous the track could be, but before the layout of Riverside was amended in 1969, it claimed the lives of NASCAR champ Joe Weatherly, sports car legend Ken Miles (despite a theory claiming the contrary), and two others. What is undisputed is that the Milwaukee Mile's future looks grim. A dirt track at its 1903 opening until it was paved in 1954, the 1.0-mile speedway encloses a 1.8-mile road course in the infield, where the Green Bay Packers once played. barrel rolling along the low wooden fence. <br> <br>This photo was taken at Langhorne, Pennsylvania of the 100 Mile U.S.A.C National Championship on June 20th, 1965. All cars were flagged in and the race . Sweikert and Pat OConnor were on hand, along with After the race, Clarence said they took bulldozers and steam shovels and dug down 25 or 30 feet and didnt find any concrete. He was found about 150 yards from where the Langhorne Speedway: 20: 1930-05-03: track 'b' AAA National Champ: 1-Bill Cummings, 2-Deacon Litz, 3-Fred Winnai, 4-Bill Albertson, 5-Frank Brisko, 6- Zeke Meyer: 100 laps; 15 starters/11 finishers: Langhorne Speedway: 21: 1930-07-04: track 'b' 1-Fred Frame: Langhorne Speedway: 22: 1931-00-00: track 'b' 1-Al Aspen: Langhorne Speedway: 23: The first fatality in NASCAR's top series also took place during this race when Larry Mann crashed through the guardrail and flipped three times. But when it was paved, there was no forgiveness. Langhorne area. Click on the race number to see the results of that race. from 71 to 100. and Johnny Matera. On June 14th, 1970, Rick Muther spun and hit the wall on lap 121 ending the effort of the only turbine powered car ever to run at Langhorne. In the 1970s, three more racers died. and Garrett, running second and third, were lapped by Bryan, as he circled that rough track. miles. go alone, so he asked me. Heres A young Mario Andretti raced there. having Bryan died of his injuries, at age 34, still seemingly at the height of his considerable powers. George Amick took over the lead, and he was followed Reading in the book about Langhorne, by L. Spencer Riggs, its said that A lot of guys who ran it got killed. Tinglestad being lead away from the wreck by a track official. Jan 1, 2013 - Langhorne Speedway flyer. He remembers the restless night before. His average speed was 95.212 MPH. Autoweek.com takes a look at the history of Langhorne Speedway, a track that opened in 1926 and closed in '71, and in between was notorious for death and destruction. left after the 1955 racing season. Puke Hollow remains vivid in the minds of those who rode its ruts. Both cars caught fire. Although Langhorne would become famous for races featuring the Champ Cars that ran at Indy and so-called Big Cars, now known as sprint cars, the first event also included a Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix car. Since 1965, however, the track has not suffered a single known fatal accident. what my brother and I saw, on that day, from where we sat. According to a count by Autoweek, Langhorne Speedway took the lives of 27 people in its short 45 years of operation. The proposal will have to go through the land development process. The newest track on this list of the 10 deadliest was constructed in 1964, and all of them were raced in the days before the introduction of fire retardant Nomex suits, HANS devices, and mandatory roll cages. Being the most modern track on this record, ISM has the fewest confirmed fatal accidents. You were carrying so many lateral g's that it was hard to get around there comfortably. for Ferrari, both in sports/racing cars and also in Grand Prix cars, after LeMans. Veith led the first 16 laps, with Bryan leading laps 17 through 70. accident at LeMans has to be the worst ever, with "Puke Hollow was, by far, the worst corner I ever drove," says Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner who always dreaded running Langhorne. The track was razed soon thereafter. AAA sprint car show was held on May 1, 1955, at the big, circular oiled dirt Item discovered at ebay.com; When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. A vicious series of end over end flips, with Crockett being thrown out of the car This time the Two years later, Hugh Randall was killed in an eerily similar accident two laps into his relief stint in a Champ Car race. Tinglestad escaped injury. You were running pretty fast, so if you hit, there was a lot of impact.. ventured out to Indianapolis, Charlotte Motor Speedway got off to an explosive start, hosting the NASCAR World 600 (now the Coca-Cola 600) in 1960, its opening year. Langhorne Speedway is no more; its paddock closed for good in 1971, after 45 years. Pinterest. [2] They talk about Darlington, but I think Langhorne was probably as tough as any track because of no banking and alland you had to really drive it. Andretti won IndyCar races at Langhorne in 1966 and 1967, leading both races from wire to wire. Apr 12, 2016 - The aftermath of Bobby Marvin's fatal crash at Langhorne, PA in 1963. The race was in 1951 and surprisingly everybody involved in this wild . snow was in the forecast. race, a small piece of solder was found in the fuels return line, which, in extent that the AAA decided that it would no longer be a sanctioning body, and White said Langhornes well-known history of death and dismemberment didnt faze him. Daytona International Speedway: 8 1965 2001 Langhorne Speedway: 3 1952 1956 Charlotte Motor Speedway: 1964 1965 Memphis-Arkansas Speedway: 2 1956 1956 Darlington Raceway: 1957 1965 Riverside International Raceway: 1964 1967 Talladega Superspeedway: 1973 1975 Atlanta Motor Speedway: 1984 1989 North Wilkesboro Speedway: 1 1954 Michigan . While Yanigan. Apr 12, 2016 - The aftermath of Bobby Marvin's fatal crash at Langhorne, PA in 1963. 65 USAC JIM HURTUBISE KENYON AUTO RACING CRASH LANGHORNE SPEEDWAY . Keep this in mind as totals continue to rise further down the list. At this race, however, came the first of many deaths at the Indy 500, and the circuit's seventh up to that point, when a riding mechanic was flung from a damaged car at speed. While the SCTA holds two speed trials at Bonneville every year, it hosts six at El Mirage, and the volume of racing opens the event up to more crashesand more deaths. At Going through there, you were gritting your teeth, Andretti said. That view was basically It was a challenge, but if youre a racer, you want a challenge. The speedway has enjoyed a packed racing schedule for decades, and with its popularity has come an unfortunate number of accidents. Marvin's car hit the outside fence, flipped high in the air and landed on Bud Tinglestad's car. was cartwheeling through the air, out of the car. A lot of racers believed -- mistakenly -- that Puke Hollow got its name because drivers felt sick when they roared through it. Teamates, Johnny Thomson and Al Keller had the fastest times during time The National Open since 1972 has become the Race of Champions Modified race, raced exclusively on pavement and at various Northeastern tracks, and its history has been combined into the National Open. consolation race was won by Musselman, and he was But on the first lap his car got crossed up diving into Puke Hollow, hooked a rut, and launched an estimated 55 feet into the air. $18,500.00. a Champ car, ended up as the fastest qualifier with a time of 32,871. As Rutherford explains: "It was too fast in the rear-engine cars. Bob NASCAR Hall of Famer Cotton Owens, in a 2008 interview, remembered finishing races at Langhorne with battered hands. Since the racetrack was a near-perfect circle until 1965, there were no clear-cut "turns" as compared to a more traditional track layout; the turns are based on dividing the circular track into four quarters, with turn two being the second "quarter" from the start line. No credible source reports any deaths since. One driver was even pinned to his seat by a 4-foot-long piece of wooden guardrail. The 1-mile track in eastern Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, was known as the Track That Ate the Heroes, the Big Left Turn and the Horne, among others. The Lady In Black, as some old-timers call Darlington, will never lighten up, and drivers will continue to earn their "Darlington Stripe" of paint lost to the walls for years to come. Dropping out of the event were Linden, instant fashion, with him receiving a broken neck and a severed jugular vein. His death in such a shockingly unexpected wreck deeply affected everybody who'd witnessed it. It opened in 1926 and quickly gained a reputation as one of the toughest tracks in the country, thanks to its high banks and long straightaways. having He survived and raced again (though not at Langhorne) after the giant splinter was inched out of his abdomen in a hospital. The rate of fatalities saw a dramatic slowdown following 1973, however, and only eight people (one of whom was a trespasser) have been killed by crashes in the following 45 years, down from 64 in its first 64 years. He was followed by Magill, Hoyt, Carter, Rogers, Hemmings Motor News' 2007 remembrance of Langhorne bore a similar and equally disturbing title - "Death's Corner." "The formula for driving assumed you would ignore the chasm-like ruts, incredible speed, and storm of dirt being hurled by the cars that you lapped," wrote Hemmings' Jim Donnelly. On the 70th run. to make the show were Rodger Ward, Bill Cheesbourgh, Peters, Hank Rogers, Hinnershitz, Bill Brown, Ernie completed. winners were Al Herman, Mike Nazaruk and Charlie Musselman. Ive never lost sleep over debuting anywhere in the world, even with Formula 1 and whatever, Andretti said. a time of 32.941. For that, we should be thankful, since Langhorne was once described by Bobby Unser as "the most dangerous, most treacherous, most murderous track there ever was. "The whole place had deteriorated over the years -- the infield, the pits, everything.". I cant imagine another track being that dangerous. Following Amick across the finish line were Hartley, Keller, Elisian and Magill the only ones to go the full 100 Nobody raised their hand. Narrow, fast, bumpy, and often blind, Riverside first opened in 1957, and proved itself hazardous from day one, with a driver sustaining a fatal brain injury at its inaugural race. According to Riggs, nearly two dozen drivers were killed at the 'Horne, along with another dozen or so motorcycle riders, flaggers, and spectators. The night before Langhorne, I was actually really concerned. Langhorn. It was my first race in a Champ Car, and it was on dirt, and it was at the toughest place you could go -- one of those tracks where you had to brave it. It was common to have over a hundred cars attempt to qualify for the National Open. It Thats because it was totally round with no banking. almost a lap down, in third. by Hartley, with Bryan, gaining on Amick. Besides sprint cars and midgets, there were modifieds, late-models, and stock cars. My brother, Raymond (Jim), wanted to go to The Hankinson brought in AAA Championship 100-lap races and continued to stage shorter sprint car racing events on the circular track. was a consolation race and Crockett won that, with OConnor and Jiggs Peters following him. "That was the only race in my career that I was really worried about," he says. [2] His first win happened at Seekonk Speedway in 1946 and he won seven times in 1947. Reports I had read said he lost part of a thumb, along with a glove, and "You'd bicycle through therefast," Jones says. Ralph Liquori and Jim Hurtibise(#88) leap from their cars as Mel Kenyon(#21) slumps in the cockpit, badly burned and unconscious. As a result, no physical remnants of the track itself remain. According to the book Langhorne! Vukovich, Bob Slater, Jerry Hoyt, Charlie Miller, The track became known as one of the more dangerous tracks in motorsports. never been to Langhorne previous to this day, and was making his initial run in ". It was a wild frontier, with blood on the ground. winners were Nick Fornoro, Fred Jiggs race continued after a spell, and Musselman had the headed pit side, with his gas tank empty. It was very rough (in its dirt-track days). One in 1952, another in 1954, still another in 1957, three support personnel at the 1960 Southern 500, and its most recent in 1965. AJ Foyt, who won four consecutive Championship Car races at Langhorne to go along with his four Indy 500s, was one of the few drivers who relished the opportunity to pound through Puke Hollow. started to sputter. The circuit hasn't hosted a national-level racing series since IndyCar in 2015. 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