That car now resides in the Museum at the Indianapolis racetrack. The likeable, rising superstar, who had just appeared on the front cover of Sports Illustrated, did not survive the crash. Sweikert's first chance at driving a Sprint car came next in 1949. Vogler was the National Alliance of Midget Auto Racing (NAMAR) midget champion in 1973. The Indianapolis native raced in five Indianapolis 500s. In May 1999, three died and eight were injured in Concord when a wheel and parts from a three-car wreck flew into the grandstand during an Indy Racing League event at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Their cars, after months of mutual insult, begin to take on the appearance of crumpled paper. The Winston Cup season leader easily beat Schrader's 157.219 mph in qualifying Friday. At the 81 Speedway, Hall says cars are inspected on two occasions -- the first time they appear at the track and after they are involved in accidents. Robert Charles Sweikert (May 20, 1926 June 17, 1956) was an American racing driver, best known as the winner of the 1955 Indianapolis 500 and the 1955 National Championship, as well as the 1955 Midwest Sprint car championship - the only driver in history to sweep all three in a single season. In the 1950s, talent won races, but luck decided who lived and died on the track. There is also a Team Vogler Classic at the Indianapolis Speedrome. He said, I still cant relax. He said this was just one race. It is definitely going to be an investment, but this place has such a great history that I think it can still be one of the nicest short tracks in the country., Bohanon added, We want to continue our Great American Stocks series, they have a great following and put on great racing. Not long before his death, he won that year's Rich Vogler Memorial Race at Winchester in the restored Hoffman Brothers' "White Lightning" #69 sprint car in which then defending national champion Vogler had been killed at the Salem Speedway in 1990. For over 65 years Salem Speedway has enjoyed the recognition of being one of the most unique and renowned racetracks in America. On September 26, 1953 Sweikert won the Hoosier Hundred, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, a race which is chronicled by many as "the greatest race ever" run. The .555-Mile oval that features imposing 33-degree banked turns was built strictly for speed. There over the next couple years, he built his own track roadster. Gil was a popular Cincinnati, Ohio driver who ran regularly in the area before joining the United States Auto Club sprint car circuit. We will keep the other local divisions that have been running at the track and plan to continue to bring in some additional outside touring series to keep fans interested in coming to all our events. Tragically, Reece would lose his life on the last lap of the 100 Mile USAC National Championship race at Trenton Speedway on September 28, 1958. She searched for nearly an hour before finding the tricycles There was always the darkness the thing about Vukie.. Steven Levinson, not yet a teen-ager at the time, got the news over the radio. Last edited on 17 December 2022, at 23:08, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Sweikert&oldid=1128015419, This page was last edited on 17 December 2022, at 23:08. Richard Kavanagh, pastor of St. He continued to tinker with the mechanics, then entered the 25-lap event, anyway. of his death. [4], The ASA National Tour ran six races at the track, from 1998 through 2003 and the winners were Scott Hansen (twice), David Stremme, Tim Sauter, Gary St. Amant and Robbie Pyle. ), Complete USAC Mini-Indy (Formula Super Vee) Results, Last edited on 28 September 2022, at 18:41, Biography at the Rich Vogler Memorial Scholarship Fund, Driver profile Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, NASCAR Statistics at racing-reference.info, NASCAR Winston Cup results from July Pocono race, Rich Vogler Memorial Scholarship Fund webpage, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rich_Vogler&oldid=1112909876, This page was last edited on 28 September 2022, at 18:41. Five-time USAC midget champion Rich Vogler was killed Saturday night after his car crashed during a feature sprint-car race at Salem Speedway of which he was later declared the. Veda wrote many racing articles. "He would be going if it were me that died. Weeks later, Sweikert's fatal sprint car crash occurred on June 17, 1956, at Salem Speedway. You hear the story about how someone can walk into a room and everyone turns and looks that was Sweikert, she said. Follow Ken de . Both tracks also increased their fences' overhang. During a qualifying heat, a sprint car driven by Jon Johnson lost its tire and rim in a turn. A grim reminder of the darkness of the board-track era of the 1920s. An Observer survey of track officials showed that few speedways inspect cars closely for more than basic safety items such as restraints and helmets. During 1947 Sweikert began mailing monthly accounts of his life to Veda Orr, through April 1956. She died five hours later, early the next day. pool and its lure for children. Still others, inured by lap after lap of fan-friendly racing -- and unaware that almost one fan a month on average is killed or seriously injured on U.S. tracks -- think of spectator incidents as mere freak occurrences. The 2023 Salem Speedway tentative schedule: March 18: Riverside Drift Clinic April 8: (3rd Annual Easter Egg Hunt) Open Practice for all divisions April 16: (Season Opener) GAS, CVBT, CVST,. 1 sprint car, just one year after he won the worlds most famous race, tumbled over the turn one wall at Salem Speedway. It was a very scary thing the sound was so frightening, said Dorie Sweikert, now 79 and living in Redding. Drivers, nursing accumulated grudges, satisfy them on and off the track. [3], Vogler finished seventeenth in his only NASCAR Busch Series start at the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham in 1988.[4]. When Vogler got word of Fittipaldi's penalty, he went up to USAC to testify for him, calling the penalty "unjust." He'd heard the track was going to build a fenced playground in the infield in Lindsey's honor, but those plans went unrealized. "Some people said it went over the fence." ''Rich saw his father die,'' said Marvel. Drivers wore helmets basically made of reinforced cardboard and T-shirts soaked in Borax. [5], Because of USAC rules on a red flag reverting to the previous completed lap, he was declared the winner of the event following his death, which was his 170th win. Always open. Former USAC Midget racer Nick Bohanon has taken over ownership of the iconic Salem Speedway Fueled by the Hoosier Lottery, located in Salem. Mrs. Tomlinson ran behind the Sweikert house. [2] A thunderstorm had ripped the roof off the grandstands and fences were damaged. USAC, however, did not see Vogler waive Fittipaldi by, and, as a result, they penalized Fittipaldi two laps. Ostapenko and Karsch removed the boys from the water. Required fields are marked *. They were joined by Myron Weinberger, 221 East 70th The result is something of a chaotic feel: fights in the pits, fans rushing in noisy scrums to watch. History [ edit] In addition to his five midget titles, Vogler won the national sprint car championship in 1980. On July 21, 1990, during the Joe James / Pat O'Connor Memorial sprint car event at the Salem Speedway, which was nationally broadcast on ESPN Thunder, sprint car driver Rich Vogler sustained fatal head injuries due to a crash in turn 4. [1] The track closed in May 1995 when he declared bankruptcy. In January 1953, Sweikert married his high school sweetheart, divorcee Dorie with her two children, with whom he had recently become reacquainted. She figures it was a combination of factors, but mostly this: It was Bobs time to die, and he died.. See more of Salem Speedway on Facebook. Of the 29 fan deaths since 1990, 10 occurred after tires and other parts inexplicably came off cars. Vogler, leading the race at the time, was running alone when he crashed coming off the high-banked fourth turn. Fifty years later, her memories of those days paint a picture of the entire experience. "It didn't belong on that car," Hall says. Saturday's sponsor is Crosleybrands.com. Sweikert himself took the checkers at Indy in the face of USAC Loctite-Crestliner Vans National Sprint Car Series, USAC Copenhagen-Skoal National Midget Series, USAC Stoops Freightliner National Sprint Car Series, USAC MCI WorldCom National Midget Car Series, USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, Northern Division, Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super Sprint Series, USAC Valvoline National Sprint Car Series, USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, Sears Auto Center Northern Division, ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards, AMSOIL USAC Sprint Car National Championship, CRA JEGS All-Stars Tour presented by Chevrolet Performance, Circle Track Great American Racing Series, Lawrence Towing CRA Street Stock Series Powered by JEGS, USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series presented by Traxxas, Vores Compact Touring Series powered by Mercer County Electric, Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS, Victory Custom Trailers CRA Junior Late Model Series, https://www.thethirdturn.com/w/index.php?title=Salem_Speedway&oldid=657339. * Most laps led. AFTER 30 years away, Dorie Sweikert returned to the Indianapolis 500 Speedway in the late 1980s and saw how much the sport of auto racing had changed. At smaller tracks, insurance companies are the primary arbiters of fence height and design. Track technicians had not inspected the car. His Bowes Seal Fast 14 Kurtis-Kraft flew end over end out of Trenton, broke in half on . Sweikert and his wife, Dolores, were the parents of four children It will be a process of getting those done over the next several years. Pit fencing, however, is rarely mandated. "I still love to go to races," Cynthia says now. There was kind of a machismo attached to it. None of todays safeguards existed then. Speedway infield. Vogler's helmet flew off his head and he suffered severe head injuries that proved to be fatal. He won the midget car track championships at the Indianapolis Speedrome in 1984 and 1985. Such is what Jeff Mayden believed before his daughter was killed. "We don't do checks before races," says Hall. ". "Fans are their own worst enemy," says Dickie Gore, owner of Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas, Va. 4.3 out of 5 stars. The following morning, in part because of Vogler's testimony, the penalty was overturned and Fittipaldi was credited with the runner-up position. 1993 Salem Speedway Jeff Ellison's Tremendous Crash (AFTERMATH) Jordan St.Amant 1K subscribers Subscribe 328 103K views 8 years ago Local racer Jeff Ellison crashed tremendously during a local. Drive. Such decisions are largely left up to speedways. I definitely want to clean the place up, paint it, do something with the signage out front. Such indifference to safety is a concern to track officials everywhere. backstretch wall to his death. A year later, on June 17, 1956, Sweikert, just turned 30, was killed when his sprint car shot over the edge of the high-banked, half-mile track at Salem, Ind. No other cars were involved and no other injuries reported. SALEM - Salem Speedway is set to host the 33rd Halloween 200 from Oct. 22-24. Nobody covers Columbus, Indiana and the surrounding areas like The Republic. A good Sunday was when every driver cheated death and went home alive.. Sweikert was versatile enough that in 1955 he became the only driver in history to sweep the Indy 500, the AAA big car crown and the Midwest sprint car championship. Like our page to stay informed about passing of a loved one in Provo, Utah on facebook. With the deaths have come questions -- about track fencing, about uninspected cars, about supervision in restricted areas. in the driveway beside the vacant house. They had a large family wedding in West L.A. That grief gripped the loved ones of dozens of race car drivers in the 1950s. He is buried at Lone Tree Cemetery in Fairview, California.[3]. Orem, Utah. Drivers sit so low in modern cars, nestled safely into a protective cockpit, that you can hardly see them. [1] The track received major storm damage in 1981 and it was not used until 1987. Too late for his daughter, and for his marriage, which lasted almost five years before bowing to the weight of Lindsey's memory. Donald Davidson, historian for the Indianapolis 500, said Sweikert is highly regarded among those familiar with the sports heritage. One of his frequent local competitors on the streets was Ed Elisian, a teenage boy from nearby Oakland, California. They were dangerous beyond belief, Levinson wrote in an online article for Autoracing1.com. Community See All. First there was the business of trying to defend his Indy 500 title. Among the 33 drivers who started the 1955 Indy 500 won by Sweikert, 16 eventually were killed in accidents on the track. Country Club golf course behind the Sweikert home. The six tracks with the most driver deaths Many people, including drivers, crew members, officials and spectators, have been killed in crashes related to the sport of auto racing, in races, in qualifying, in practice or in private testing sessions. Classes at Christ the King School were canceled for Josh and Amanda Dutton's funeral. Six days before, on Sept. 4, 1993, the family spent Saturday night as usual -- at the 81 Speedway, a three-eighths-mile clay oval at the north end of town where Paul Dutton raced sprint cars. On May 30, 1955 Sweikert finally won the Indianapolis 500 race, from the 14th starting position in the Zink Kurtis roadster #6. The wheel hit Amanda flush, crushing her lungs and heart beyond surgeons' repair. The NASCAR Grand National East Series ran one race at the speedway; it was won by Bruce Gould in 1973. She is one of 29 spectators since 1990 to be killed by cars or their flying parts at U.S. auto racing events. He would make consecutive starts at Indy from then on, up until 1990. The race was red flagged and would never restart. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters. I didnt see him airborne.. Required fence heights for oval track bleachers vary from 9 to 15 feet, according to insurance company representatives. Waltrip, preparing to make his 500th NASCAR start in that July 7 race, sustained a slight concussion and broke his left leg the day before in a crash in practice and couldn't start. Published In. Lindsey took to cars with the same fervor. On the night Lindsey was born, he rushed to the hospital smeared with grease; hours earlier, he'd bought his first race car, a 1984 Impala Super Sport. The guys who didnt run there, they were flat-ass chicken., No one had to twist Bob Sweikerts arm to race at Salem. This year's Fall Classic at the .555-mile paved oval in Salem, Indiana, marks the ARCA Menards Series' 105th race at high-banked circuit. As the field favorite going for his third consecutive At 5 p.m. their mother, Mrs. Marie Tomlinson, 32, began [2] The ARCA qualifying record is 16.785 seconds/119.035mph by Gary Bradberry in 1994.[6]. Their shoes where on the pools rim. The tragic death of Bill Vukovich during the 1955 Indianapolis 500 unfairly cast a long, dark shadow over the career of the winner of that year's race Bob Sweikert. Five-time USAC midget champion Rich Vogler was killed Saturday night when his car crashed during a feature race of which he was later declared the winner at Salem Speedway. Foremen worked for an hour and a half before Deputy Coroner "The insurance never determined what happened," says Clay, who said he doesn't know the path the wheel took. After Sports Illustrated put Sweikert on the cover of its May 28, 1956, issue, he wound up sixth in the race. Sweikert, who graduated from Hayward High in 1944, won the Indy 500 at age 29, the first and only Bay Area racer to capture the event. Star, as published on Aug. 12, 1956, Mother Finds Pair in At the time, Vogler was scheduled to run the full Winston Cup Series in the near-future for U.S. Weinberger and Ostapenko began artificial respiration. Floyd said plans were being made to fly Vogler to Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky., before he was pronounced dead. On the first lap of the first race held at Salem, on June 22, 1947, Clay Corbitt locked wheels with Jack Schultz, went over the banking and was killed. Track officials voiced the same hesitance. But there are those who think he adapted to the track as well as anybody. While completing the third lap, Sweikert was running near the outside wall in 4th place, side by side with his past teenage East Bay streets rival, Ed Elisian, in 5th. Sweikert was born in Los Angeles, California. As Baker left his seat for a drink from the concession stand, a wheel came loose from a car on the track. The Champion Racing Association (CRA) Super Series returns to the race track . Then came a June 17 sprint car race at Salem Speedway. Send comments to [emailprotected]. Both boys were He is thankful only that Lindsey had her back to the track when the tire bounced toward her. This page was last edited on 23 December 2014, at 08:46. He is tied with Pat Flaherty for the record of the driver with the fewest points to have won a race. Tony Floyd, an ambulance medic for the hospital, described the 39-year-old Vogler as having a "severe head injury." Read More. On September 11, 1954 Sweikert became the first driver ever to average 90mph (140km/h) in a 100-mile (160km) race, with his win in the Lutes Truck Parts Special #17 car at the Eastern Speed Dome in Syracuse. after the boys were taken from the water. I was 17 when I first started racing. "It kind of catapulted into the sky," Cindy Dutton remembers. His mother had married his stepfather, an electrician for the state of California, when Bob was an infant. Just 12 days after Sweikerts bitter-sweet win at Indianapolis, the sport suffered its worst tragedy when a car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France went off the track and into the crowd, killing 80 spectators. Lindsey, who wanted to be a veterinarian and a midget car racer. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. "And it gets worse at the end of the night.". Mike Harrington: His team looks good, even without Alex Tuch. Ind. Not now. two months, went home while firemen worked. The tragedy brought complaints from neighbors about the open Forgot account? They settled in Indiana, to be close to the Speedway where Sweikert hoped to race and win. February 27, 2023 (100 years old) View obituary. The worst such incident occurred in 1955 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, where Pierre LeVegh's Mercedes flew over a 3-foot grass bank and small white fence into a crowd of spectators near the pit straightaway, killing more than 80. Speedway. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! With months to heal and the war over, he was honorably discharged in September 1945. hunting for them, to call them to supper. He had that charisma.. Eugene Gerber, bishop of Wichita's Roman Catholic diocese and a family friend, tried to console the mournful. Its like Iraq its that kind of grief.. He was nicknamed "Rapid Rich". 1949_07_25 -2 Drivers Killed at Salem Speedway- Louisville Courier-Journal pg 1 (1 of 2) The wheel, witnesses would say later, bounced through the unrepaired hole in the fence, then struck Baker above his right eye. He was scheduled to make his NASCAR Winston Cup (now NASCAR Cup Series) series debut at Pocono Raceway the day after his fatal crash. Stadium, Arena & Sports Venue in Salem, Indiana. tragedy after two-time 500 winner Bill Vukovich cartwheeled over the The bodies were taken to the Conkle West 16th three weeks ago to make her home. Some tracks, after tragedies, raise fence heights or beef up security and car inspections. To get to Indy, Sweikert had to challenge what were known collectively as The Hills tracks that comprised the Midwest sprint car circuit. Sweikert was pronounced dead upon arrival at Washington County Hospital. His "Indy 500" win was over-shadowed by the fatal crash of two-time winner Bill Vukovich during the race earlier that day. "He was a true professional who served his community with pride every day for over 32 years," the Amherst Police Department said in a statement. Handsome, charismatic, courageous, smart, successful, and on top of the world, Sweikerts life ended in tragedy when his yellow No. The sprint car flew over the edge of the track, down the embankment, and landed a hundred feet below, where it briefly burst into flames. "It was," he said, "nobody's fault.". The track has 33 degrees of banking in the corners. From age 16 Sweikert worked after school as a mechanic at the local Ford dealership in Hayward. 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