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    Senior Member Jimmy B's Avatar
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    Re: Figure 8

    Those are a lot more exotic than the ones we have around here. I personally like watching them.
    Jimmy B

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    Re: Figure 8

    Does the name Don Eslick sound familiar Jimmy? He comes here every year for the 3 hour Figure 8 Championship. I have photos of him from 2001 upside down in turn one then later in the same race on fire all the way around the track. He didn't know the car was on fire until they literally pulled the safety truck in front of him and jumped out and started shooting the rear of the car with extinguishers. When he rolled it the filler neck broke, no one noticed it, filled it and he went back out and then caught fire as he went through a corner and fuel splashed out of the tank, as he drove it got bigger and bigger.... suprise!
    Don's car resembled those from Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky. These Speedrome cars are a breed all their own, and it seems no other tracks want them to visit, on the oval or figure 8. They once ran in the RCA Dome.

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