Trivia
--> There were two racetracks in Tulsa off Mohawk Drive east of Lewis in the late forties.
--> There was also a racetrack in the forties / fifties at 21st and Yale where Sears is now, before the fairgrounds track opened. Near this site was also one of the earliest debris dumping grounds in the early years of Tulsa.
--> The Tulsa Quarter Midget Track was built in 1957-58 by Harry Baker with help from Clyde Bayer (whose grandson is Kevin Bayer, zwho has been an ACS2 Champion)
--> The first "exhibition" quarter midget race was in the parking lot of Edison school.
--> Austin Helt was the first third generation driver on the Tulsa Quarter Midget track. Sydney Helt was the second third generation driver.
--> Micro Midgets originally ran in Oklahoma north of Bartlesville, near Dewey.
--> If not the first, then one of the first indoor races in Tulsa were "Three-Quarter" Midgets which ran at the Civic Center in the early 1960's for a couple of shows (Lyndon Greaney was the promotor). These cars were larger than micro's at the time, and were run extensively on the east coast.
--> Get-N-Go Convenience stores sold advance tickets to the Tulsa Speedway at the Fairgrounds in the mid 1960's. The cost was One Dollar. And the track would have between Nine Thousand and Eleven Thousand Spectators each week (Dick Colvin was the promotor)
--> There were coal mines under and around the area of the Tulsa Fairgrounds.
--> The Freeway Cafe at 4th and Sheridan has CARTOONS published in the programs at the Fairgrounds Tulsa Speedway from the sixties when attendance was so high. Lemons, Cagle, Taylor, Hahn, many others are depicted in the five or six large frames.
--> JEFF GORDON REFUSED TECH at the 1981 Tulsa Grand Nationals in the B-Modifed Class
--> There was also a racetrack in the forties / fifties at 21st and Yale where Sears is now, before the fairgrounds track opened. Near this site was also one of the earliest debris dumping grounds in the early years of Tulsa.
--> The Tulsa Quarter Midget Track was built in 1957-58 by Harry Baker with help from Clyde Bayer (whose grandson is Kevin Bayer, zwho has been an ACS2 Champion)
--> The first "exhibition" quarter midget race was in the parking lot of Edison school.
--> Austin Helt was the first third generation driver on the Tulsa Quarter Midget track. Sydney Helt was the second third generation driver.
--> Micro Midgets originally ran in Oklahoma north of Bartlesville, near Dewey.
--> If not the first, then one of the first indoor races in Tulsa were "Three-Quarter" Midgets which ran at the Civic Center in the early 1960's for a couple of shows (Lyndon Greaney was the promotor). These cars were larger than micro's at the time, and were run extensively on the east coast.
--> Get-N-Go Convenience stores sold advance tickets to the Tulsa Speedway at the Fairgrounds in the mid 1960's. The cost was One Dollar. And the track would have between Nine Thousand and Eleven Thousand Spectators each week (Dick Colvin was the promotor)
--> There were coal mines under and around the area of the Tulsa Fairgrounds.
--> The Freeway Cafe at 4th and Sheridan has CARTOONS published in the programs at the Fairgrounds Tulsa Speedway from the sixties when attendance was so high. Lemons, Cagle, Taylor, Hahn, many others are depicted in the five or six large frames.
--> JEFF GORDON REFUSED TECH at the 1981 Tulsa Grand Nationals in the B-Modifed Class