Pebble Beach. Torrey Pines. Bridgehampton. Indianola, Iowa? In a lot of ways, it’s the loss of the tracks of the middle of the country that is all the more tragic than the biggies on the coasts. The lack of artifacts make the memory more distant, the tracks somehow more forgotten. It’s almost as if they […]
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Lost Track: Paramount Ranch
Let’s take a deeper look at this short-lived but much loved SoCal race track, shall we? There were only a handful of races held at the Santa Monica mountainside race track, most of which were marred by dangerous track design that led to 3 fatalities in the 18 short months the track was operating a […]
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Lost Track: Vaca Valley
Although the Vaca Valley Raceway would later incorporate a drag strip and oval track into it’s road racing configuration (a very early example of a multipurpose motorsport park), I quite like this early description from the May 1960 California Sports Car Club newsletter about the upcoming 1961 races. “The course, a new one for most […]
There must be a lot of information out there about the raceway in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Enough to fill Golden Gate Remembered, a book by Art Evans and Gary Horstkorta. I have to admit, however, there seems to be precious little about the circuit online. Maybe that’s because it was short lived; the […]
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Lost Track: Torrey Pines
It’s been some time since we’ve peered into America’s forgotten palaces of sportscar racing. This time, let’s head to the West Coast and it’s thriving sportscar scene of the 1950’s—arguably the epicenter of American sportscar racing at the time. Southern California certainly has it’s advantages for the racing driver: the warm weather allows for year-round […]
In our ‘Lost Tracks’ series, we’ve already examined the demise of ‘The Bridge’, the purpose built track designed to replace the increasingly dangerous road course at Bridgehampton. But let us look back to the simpler, county road course in Bridgehampton. We were first inspired to start looking into America’s forgotten racetracks by the Last Open […]
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Lost Track: Brynfan Tyddn
Following up on our last classic track piece on the Bridgehampton road circuit, let’s look at another track featured in the Last Open Road series of books. The Brynfan Tyddn road course saw action from 1952-56. “Brynfan Tyddn” is Welsh for “Large Farm on the Hilltop”, and consisted of a winding road around T. Nowell […]
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Lost Track: The Bridge
In the first of what I hope to make a long series here on the Chicane, let’s take a look at the sadly defunct track at Bridgehampton. I’ve recently been plowing through the marvelous Last Open Road series of books by B.S. Levy. The series follows a young small-town auto mechanic as he throws himself […]
This is a big day for The Chicane. We finally get to let you in on something that we’ve been dying to share on the blog for some time. After months of work, we’re finally ready to debut the first pieces of a line of vintage racing inspired clothing. Chicane Trackwear will ultimately include a […]
Here’s a round of auctioneering you don’t often see. Watch the bidding floor as Porsche SA purchases Kyalami for R205Million.Thanks, Porsche for keeping Kyalami out of our Lost Tracks series.