Wisconsin

FWIW, though born & raised in Steger, Illinois, lived in SoCal from 84-07, and now in the Dallas area (and HATE IT!!!!!), I sort of consider Wisconsin as my old 2nd home. From 1976 till 1984 when I moved to SoCal, Road America had been my home away from home, and the college dorm rooms in Sheboygan and Siebkins Inn in Elkhart Lake were where I slept. I was a paddock marshal, then a course marshal at RA for most of those years, and miss that track, the wonderful people, and the city!

Also miss the 3 B's too, Beer, Brats, and the Wisconsin BABES, LOL.

Ran a few track events there with the Alfa clubs. Was good buddies with Peter "PD" Cunningham and his gang (way before his Realtime days).

And always had a blast "hazing" rookie SCCA workers by bringing them to The Safe House in Milwaukee on the way back from the races.

rodmoe said:

LOL well if you haven't been to RA since then I think that was around the time we stopped going in the mid to late 80's . ITs all grown up not so much dirt and lots of paved area heck we had a parking lot autoX inside the track while the had local racers on the big track and then there is the Briggs go cart play area that the Fox Valley club had two events on this year that I missed .. Hope to get back to RA as well as BHF more as my work allows

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Yes, I was last at RA around 1983. Hated it went they went sort of corporate, and ALL the brat stands were now owned by one company! Used to be able to go to different stands and each had their own way of cooking their brats.

Do you remember the fresh cut french fry stand by the main entrance? I loved those fries! Frequented there so much, the girls got to know me by name, LOL. Sadly yet again, when it went corporate, that was gone too.

BHF, oh man! Remember when the owner also owned a paving company, and he'd use the track as his test bed for new formulas? You never knew what type of pavement you'd be racing on, till you got there. And even then, it would change from one turn to the next.

If you were doing time trials at BHF when I was racing there, maybe we might have met? My one car was a pumpkin colored 1969 Lotus Europa S2. But there, I was better known for my white 1979 Mazda RX7. It was modified for the ASP class, so had headers (no cat or thermal reactor) back into a 7" Supertrapp, which I would gut to make it a wide open megaphone. It was soooo loud, my buddies could tell what gear I was in, at any part of the track cause they could hear my exhaust, LOL. As the exhaust had no restrictions, and I had modified the 4bbl card to open wide when I needed, I would be screaming up to 9000 rpm.

Those were the days!