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I hope he's fine and I hope somebody reports back here soon.

And wasn't ole Wild Bill LUCKY to get his sole victory at the Racearena, giving him one victory in EVERY active (at the time) CT racetrack! Wild Bill never ran that good at Danbury, but anybody could win there given the right circumstances, usually a pole start and a ton of mayhem in their wake!

If I remember correctly, and it's been a long time, wasn't Popowski leading the pack (or was it Leblanc, I get those two mixed up) and swerving and it was that caused the whole mess.... But in reality, it was just another typical Racearena accident from that period, and they were pretty horrific. I remember Rezzy popped up over a wheel, I think Denis Pierce's, and cartwheeled into the starter's stand. The problem was that having the starter's stand just about hanging OVER the track about 10 feet high was just a tragedy waiting to happen. Danbury was very lucky not to have more terrible things those last few years. I remember cars constantly flipping out of the ball park, cartwheeling into the parking lots, reindeer, the pits and remember Bo Gunning flipping into the catch fence and almost into the grandstands except that his rear bumper hooked a light pole and stopped it!?

Gino wasn't the only one who was laughing, I was too! I loved it when Gino had a lead and one of the big guns was coming up on him,,, the whole grandstand would turn silent!

Auto Racing Clips from The GREAT Danbury Fair Racearena. Video clips spanning all decades from dirt to asphalt and from flatheads to overhead valve v-8's. Dvd has nice animated menu and Paul Baker welcomes you! There has never been racing as exciting and intense as the old Danbury Fair Racearena in Danbury, CT. It closed in 1981, but it's legend lives on. No other track ever compared to the GREAT Danbury Fair Racearena. The Racearena was one of the Auto Racing Speedways at the Danbury Fair. There was auto racing their for much of the 20th century and some sort of racing there for more than one century, whether it be horses, automobiles, boats, midgets or ostriches. If you ever attended the old Racearena, or know someone who did, they will tell you that there was no other place in North American that compared. The plant itself was beautiful and always well groomed. It was spotless and always brightly painted. The fans and racers were ferocious. The cars were loud and the grandstands louder. People bought beer by the double decker trayloads and the races usually lasted to about midnight. Whether you like Don Lajoie, Gino Spada or Big Ev Pierce, there was fun for all. God Bless the Racearena. http://www.swamp-ass.com You need to download with Utorrent and burn onto a disc with Nero or you favorite burner. Link to torrent here!

My father started take us to the races, begrudgedly, in the early 70's and hated every second of the noise, smoke, beer and crazy crowds that later we would come to love. There was no place like it on earth, and never will be, times and Danbury have changed, and not for the better. Moved away from Danbury, the condiminium capital of the world years ago and have lost all interest in racing. Tried to hang on with Nascar Cup racing, but it got too corporate and cookie cutter and borrrrring. I bought a house within 20 minutes of Stafford Motor speedway 3 or 4 years ago and haven't been there since moving. Couldn't stand the thought of sitting through 18 divisions of junkers and fendered leisure cars coasting around a track that offers no challenge and worse, no fear to the drivers, and the crowd there, they don't take kindly to Racearena types!