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aeronca65t
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Those were nutty times. There was a lot of other things going on besides car-burning. 
(great pictures above, by the way).
I was there to watch Jackie Stewart win in '68. Saw Rindt win the next year and saw Fittipaldi win in '70. We also went to some of the sports car / endurance and Can Am races at The Glen back then.
By the early '70s, I was student teaching, working and trying finish college so had to stop for a while (around '73, I started racing my Sprite, but mostly at Bridghampton....never drove the Glen until '03).
Here's ~A Link~ to some great Glen photos of the Bog.
~Here is a more recent video~ taken from my car (that's Michael O. from BCF passing me at the start in the white Elva with red stripes).
(my favourite part of this video is around 5:30......dicing with the Topolino Abarth, finally passing him and them running through the Boot with the old Volvo).
(great pictures above, by the way).
I was there to watch Jackie Stewart win in '68. Saw Rindt win the next year and saw Fittipaldi win in '70. We also went to some of the sports car / endurance and Can Am races at The Glen back then.
By the early '70s, I was student teaching, working and trying finish college so had to stop for a while (around '73, I started racing my Sprite, but mostly at Bridghampton....never drove the Glen until '03).
Here's ~A Link~ to some great Glen photos of the Bog.
~Here is a more recent video~ taken from my car (that's Michael O. from BCF passing me at the start in the white Elva with red stripes).
(my favourite part of this video is around 5:30......dicing with the Topolino Abarth, finally passing him and them running through the Boot with the old Volvo).
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If these pictures represent us BCFer's, I think were in for one heck of a time!
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It was Alan Jones, for the Williams team. I remember it well, as I was fortunate enough to be working "false grid" for the F1 race, and we all got to "hang" in the pit area for the entire race.mallard said:
I nearly got run over (literally) by Alan Jones (on foot!) after the finish. Spectators started streaming across the track upside of the finish line right after the frontrunners crossed. By the time they almost finished the cooldown lap, it was impossible for cars to drive through, so Jones and several other frontrunners abandoned their cars on-track and more or less ran for their lives to escape the spectators.
It calmed down quickly enough, and we workers got to help push the abandoned cars back to the Kendall garage. Oh, was that fun: there was virtually no way to easily push on an F1 car of that vintage, either because one had to reach at an amazingly uncomfortable angle to get to something to push on, or one risked burning oneself or running oneself over with those big ol' tires.
Fun memories....