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• Bentley Warren, Oswego Speedway, 1994. When he got the burns on his hands in South America, just a couple of months before Indy, they told him he needed skin grafts. Take my whole finger off.
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Part of the excitement of sprint car racing is the danger. Clipanother car's wheels, or enter a corner too hard, and you may findyourself upside down in short order. More often than not, the driverclimbs out of the wreck unaided, and returns the next week or later thatsame night.

It wasn't always this way. Sprint cars used to routinely maim andkill their drivers. Modern safety devices such as full face helmets,roll bars, multi-point harnesses, fire suits, and fuel cells have mademost routine accidents survivable. Major advances in medicine andrescue techniques have saved many who would not have survived similarinjuries in the past.

But sometimes the worst happens, and no amount of safety equipment ormedical technology can spare the driver. Or even more tragically, thedriver survives, but is no longer able to drive, or even to care forhimself.

This page is a tribute to the men and women whose lives were claimedor changed by the sport they loved. I regret that I don't have moretime and space to post the many tributes that have been sent to me, but write me if you wish to contribute. I hope to have more on display soon.

Helping the survivors

Some of the survivors require constant medical care, notably Brad Dotyand Page Jones. Donations to their aid funds will be appreciated, notjust by the families, but by all of the racing community. Please givegenerously if you can.

Gone but not forgotten

• Jud Larson was a hard-drinking, hard-driving racer, acolorful character from the days when few drivers survived to retire,and roll cages were for sissies. Larson and Don Branson, a moresober sort, put on a legendary battle for the USAC sprint carchampionship in 1964, which Branson ultimately won. Both were killed,in separate accidents, soon thereafter: Branson at Ascot Park (Gardena,CA) in a November, 1966 crash which also claimed Dick Atkins; Jud Larsonat Reading, PA in a 1966 crash that claimed Red Riegel as well.
• Jan Opperman was one of the original 'outlaws', a 'hippie'with a heavy right foot, whose duels with Kenny Weld were the stuff oflegend. Severe head injuries suffered in a 1981 crash changed his lifeforever. He passed on in September 1997.
• Gary Patterson was one of the original Outlaws, travellingfrom track to track before it was fashionable. As a true independent, heanswered only to himself. He raced what he wanted and where he wanted,seeking the biggest challenges or the biggest purse. But, no matterwhere he was found, he lived and raced only by his choices. No promoter,no race car owner, and no sanctioning group had a leash on 'GP'.

  He was among the most well known sprint car drivers in the world,revered in some quarters, considered in more controversial terms inothers. Nonetheless, he was universally recognized and respected for hisdriving talent at every track from Knoxville to Adelaide. Regardless ofhis politics, he stood for hard, wheel-to-wheel, give-no-quarter,competitive racing.

  'GP', 'The Preacher', was one of Northern California's favorite sons.And even though he ran on everything from mile ovals to bullrings, thescenic 1/2 mile Calistoga Speedway was one of his favorites (he stillholds the one lap track record for non-winged sprint cars there). Heraced Calistoga by choice. Even the 1983 accident that ended his lifewas the result of his own choice - to take his chances with the wallrather than take out another driver along the way. He lived by his owndecisions, he raced by his own decisions, and was never afraid to facethe consequences. He respected other people's choices. He expected noless than the same respect for his own.

  (Contributed by SteveLafond)

• The death of Dave Bradway, Jr. shocked the sprint carcommumity in California and beyond. Bradway died from injuries sufferedin a tragic sprint car crash during the Super Dirt Cup at SkagitSpeedway in Washington State on June 21, 1987. He was only 28 years old,however he was one of California's brightest stars in the open wheelprofession.

  David, a second generation driver, began his racing careerin 1976 at Ernie Pursell Speedway in Grass Valley. In his initialseason, he won a pair of main events and finished second in the streetstock division, earning the track's 'rookie of the year' honors. Twoyears later, he ventured into the open wheel ranks by way of themodifieds. By 1980, he had already established himself as a premier openwheel driver. In 1982, David won his first NARC main event at PetalumaSpeedway. He finished the year with three wins and a third place finishin the final points standings. In 1984, Bradway's steady performancesearned him the track championship at Baylands Raceway Park inFremont. His list of credentials continued to grow the following season,winning five NARC feature events and an eventual third place finish inthe championship point standings, despite running a limited schedule. Inaddition, he finished an impressive eighth in the prestigious KnoxvilleNationals. 1986 produced four more NARC feature event wins for Bradway,including three at the high speed 1/2 mile Calistoga Speedway. 'Junior'established himself as a top finisher on the World of Outlaws circuit,winning the Jayhawk Nationals in Kansas City. Bradway's 1987 campaign inthe Clyde Lamar owned machine promised more of the same. He kicked offthe year winning the preliminary World of Outlaws Mini Gold Cup featureat Chico's Silver Dollar Speedway in April. He also won his 13th careerNARC feature at the season opener at Calistoga and became only thesecond member of the exclusive '100 Mile Per Hour Club' at the fast 1/2mile.

  In his 11 year career, Bradway laid a solid foundation to become asprint car legend, a legend in the same category as two of his childhoodopen wheel heroes, Jimmy Gordon and Gary Patterson. Unfortunately, allthree died doing what they loved to do best, racing and winning. DaveBradway, Jr. was definitely a winner.

  (Contributed by SteveLafond)

• The legendary hills of Winchester (Indiana) Speedway have claimedmany a sprint car driver. Among the more recent victims was RobbieStanley, then-reigning USAC sprint car champ with a brilliant careerahead of him, whose fatal crash in May 1994 stunned the sprint carcommunity.
• The high banks of Salem (Indiana) Speedway have a similarly deadlyreputation. Rich Vogler, many-time USAC sprint and midget champ,met an untimely end there in July of 1990.
• Kara Hendrick, while not a sprint car driver, was a risingstar of the USAC Western States midget series, and as quick andtenacious as any of her rivals. In 1991 (?) she hit the wall at CajonSpeedway in El Cajon, CA, while racing for the lead, and did not surviveher injuries. I believe she was 19 years old at the time. I still missyou, Kara!
• Danny Young died as the result of a flip at Knoxville (IA)Raceway on July 19, 1995. Young was only the second fatality in the17-year history of the World of Outlaws tour. Geoff Cook has contributed this eulogy to Danny.

Retired due to injuries

These drivers are fortunate to have survived, and for one reason oranother have given up the sport. We should be thankful they are stillwith us.

• Brad Doty's crash at Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH) severalyears ago made him a paraplegic, but that doesn't keep him fromcirculating in the sprint car community. You can hear his colorcommentary on TNN's coverage of the World of Outlaws series.
• Lately racing hasn't been too good to Doug Wolfgang. Dougstarted racing sprint cars at Knoxville, Iowa in 1975, and quicklybecame one of the drivers to beat. Soon afterward, he took his show onthe road. He won 5 Knoxville Nationals titles and became the winningestdriver in Knoxville history. In his prime, 'Wolfie' could give the bestof the Outlaws a run for their money, and was considered in the sameclass as Steve Kinser and Sammy Swindell: the best of the best. Henever won an Outlaw title, though, because he was always pursuing hisown agenda as a racer.

  Disaster struck for the first time in April 1992, at a World ofOutlaws race on pavement in Kansas City. Wolfgang suffered severe burnsand a broken neck (among other injuries) in a crash and fire. When hehad recovered from his injuries in 1994, he returned to racing; but soonafterward Wolfgang sued WoO, the promoter, and the rescue team fornegligence in the crash, and won his case in 1995.

  The suit turned many in the sport against Doug, but that didn't stophim from going back to racing. Soon Doug was winning races again in 360sprints at Knoxville and elsewhere. It looked like the old 'Wolfie' wasback! He took the 1996 IMCA title, and was racing 410s again in 1997.

  In September of that year, disaster struck again at an All-Stars raceat Tri-City Raceway in Illinois. Wolfgang was going for the main eventlead in a three-way battle with Dean Jacobs and Gary Wright. The threewere side-by-side-by-side when Wolfgang touched wheels with Jacobs inwhat can only be described as a racing accident. The car spun whileairborne, landed on the track facing backwards, and was hit by anothercar, shearing off the roll cage. Doug's neck was broken again, and hejust missed being paralyzed.

  While he will make a full recovery from this injury, Doug Wolfganghas decided he will never race again. In light of what racing has doneto him, it seems a wise choice.

On the mend

These drivers were injured more recently, and it is uncertain whether orhow fully they will recover. My prayers go out to them.

• Page Jones, son of '60s sprint and Indy car legend ParnelliJones and younger brother of former IMSA champ and current CART driverP.J. Jones, was a rising star in the West Coast dirt track scene, untilhis 1994 crash at Eldora in the sprint car portion of the USAC 4-CrownNationals. He is currently recovering from severe brain injuries, andthe doctors are hopeful, but Page's progress is slow.
• Wisconsin's Stan Fox was a popular driver on the USACcircuit, making frequent appearances in midgets, sprints and SilverCrown cars, and is a perennial competitor in the Indy 500.Unfortunately Stan's car snapped to the right in the first turn of the1995 Indy 500, and as a result Stan found himself in critical conditionat Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis with head injuries. Miraculously,Fox suffered no broken bones in the crash! Since early August 1995 Stanhas been home with his family, undergoing rehabilitation, and hasreturned to a normal life. At first it appeared Stan might return toracing, but who can blame him if he doesn't?

  You can send get-well messages to Bobby Smith, at rsmith@iquest.net. Smith is afriend of the Fox family and will forward all messages to Fox.

Other racing notables

Not all the Fallen Heroes are race drivers, and not all fall toracing's capricious nature. Here we pay tribute to the others who madedirt track racing great.

Patron of the sport

Though he was not a driver that I know of, the contributions ofJ. W. Hunt to the sport of sprint car racing -- and dirt trackracing in general -- cannot be overstated. A strawberry farmer fromFlorida by profession, Hunt was perhaps the biggest fan dirt trackracing ever had, and he spread his considerable wealth around topractically every driver in the sport. The familiar strawberry logoappears to this day on hundreds of race cars and drivers' helmets acrossthe US.

You never knew when or where Hunt would appear, but when he did hewould always spice up the racing by offering a little extra to sweetenthe purse. I remember one particular night at Silver Dollar Speedway,when the CRA non-winged tour was in town for a Gold Cup support race.Lealand McSpadden had set quick time, but flipped in his heat race,ringing his bell and severely damaging the car. J. W. stepped up to theinfield reporter's microphone and offered to add $1000 to the winner'spurse if McSpadden could come back through the B main and win the mainevent! The offer met with roars of approal from the crowd. Looking alittle shaky in a car that wasn't quite right, Lealand proceeded to runaway with the B. A few minutes later, with the car now set up for thealways-tacky Chico track, he won the main event to a standing ovation,and a beaming Hunt was there to greet McSpadden on the victory stand!

Hunt passed away in January of 1994 after a long and full life. ButI'm sure he smiles down on America's dirt tracks every weekend.

Help me remember the fallen heroes

I'm a relative newcomer to the sport, and don't have a lot of historyto draw on. And like most people, my memory is imperfect. Any errorsin this page are mine alone. I apologize if these errors offend anyone,and will correct them as soon as I'm made aware of them.

Please help me by sending the names and histories of the departedand injured, or information about driver aid funds, to me at this address. I will add your information to this page at my earliest opportunity.

Credits

Page layout and text copyright © 1994-1998 Chuck Fry. Unless otherwise stated, all photos this page are by Steve Lafond, and are copyright © 1993-1998 Tear-Off Heaven Fotos.

See the full copyright notice for details.

In addition to the contributed biographies credited above, my thanksto the many people who have informed and corrected me. Space does notpermit me to name them all, but I appreciate their kind words.

This page is devoted to Tributes to our fallen Supermodified heros and includes the Jim Shampine section at the bottom of this page.

Drivers Killed At Oswego Speedway Accident

Drivers Killed At Oswego Speedway Today

• In May of '62 Jim began his racing career.
• In 1962, Oswego's new 'open rules' supermodifieds replaced the coupes. Jim simply removed the body from his ex-nolan Swift car.
• Jim Shampine's first Oswego Checkers for a semi win in September of 1963. Here is a much nicer version of that photo.
• And another beautiful color photo of that car.
• Jim gave the same car the 'woodshed' look for the 1964 season.
• 'The Pine' what a driver, designer, and gentleman. photo courtesy of: Rich Edwards racing photos... Jim built this car new for the 1965 season, and went with a Ford big block. In his fourth year of competition at Oswego he was able to garner two top 3's and 5th in points, but had still not won a feature event. That had to wait until the following season.
• Best car and crew in 1965.
• A win with his coach at Shangri-La in 1966.
• July 23, 1966, Jim records his first Oswego feature win. He would collect 86 more Oswego wins over his career. Bentley warren stands second on that list with 66 checkers.
• Restored Green Machine photos courtesy of Rich Edwards from the 2010 Oldtimers event at Oswego. photo 2, photo 3, photo 4
• Jim didn't have much success with this mustang bodied mod, shown here at fulton in April of 1967.
• He also debuted a new supermodified in '67.
• After about five weeks and no success with the new car, Jim came back with the older machine and reeled off six wins on his way to his first track title.
• Jim preferred Ford power during the earlier years.
• Pine coupe, Rolling Wheels image from around 1970. Jim had good success with this car.
• Unfinished painting, then I really got lazy and used Paint Shop Pro to paste in the wheels from my original photo (above)!
• In mid 1969, Shampine brought out his new wedge creation. Irish Jack Murphy ran a few shows in the car in this configuration but Jim did not put this car into competition until 1970.
• Another look at the '69 wedge.
• New Pine coupe, Dominated the 1971 All-STAR event at Oswego.
• The revamped wedge, as it appeared in 1971.
• Same day as above, ready to be pushed off.
• See and read much more about Jim Shampine's legendary wedge supermodified.
• The 8ball unloads to start the 1972 Classic day. that's Kempton Dates 28 in the background.
• Jim is on the pole for the '72 Classic
• Jimmy Shampine talking to Danny Syrell, Gary's brother. In those days when the kids raced their gig cars they were awarded their trophies at the speedway by their favorite drivers. Gary Syrell built this car and believe it or not the car still exists along with many others of the Syrell Family racing stables. (info provided by Jim Liccardi posted on Pinner's message board).
• The dominant 8 Ball ready to roll, I think this is early 1973.
• A break in the action, possibly early '73. that's Eddie Thompson in the Solvay Automotive jacket.
• Jim was a winner in the Ed Cloce Hemi-Cuda modified in 1974.
• Standing for the anthems... 1975.
• Love this photo
• A good weekend for the Pine!
• sketch I did of the revolutionary radical offset that Jim introduced in 1976.
• A rare sight, the 8-ball on the hook. Jimmy was very good at staying out of trouble.
• 76 offset, another image with additional info.
• The Green Machine speeds into the afternoon sun...
• The offset yet again!
• The Pine powers the 8ball off turn two late in the 1977 season.
• comin' at 'ya, Jim barrels into turn 1.
• 1979 rear engine machine as it appeared in Oswego debut.
• Another early incarnation of the re car.
• two green machines and the 'young one' Doug Heveron's former Pine wedge. (yellow car on trailor)
• the Pine's 1979 'invention', a mean machine!
• Newspaper story about Jim from July, 1979.
• the last Green Machine and that darned afternoon sun again!
• tweaking the rear engined car before the big race. (Coniam #6)
• Warren Coniam ready for warmups for the '79 Classic. Warren had an incredible run on this day, coming from a lap down to regain the lead. He clearly demonstrated the superiority of this car before dropping out late in the race.
• Jim and Coniam enjoy a laugh after the '79 Classic. Jim had led the race for many laps with Coniam riding politely in second until a scuffle with a lapped car sidelined Shampine.
• Read more about that legendary rear-engine creation here and here.
• A letter from Jim prior to the 1980 season.
• Pine sprinter at the wheels for a WoO show (1980).
• the Lloyd sprinter restored and on display at Weedsport
• Jim prepares for the 1981 Classic in his offset.
• This Clyde Booth/Shampine creation would have been the 1982 International Classic winner...
• Another shot of Jim's last super ride
• The hunched forward and lean to the left driving position in the Booth/Pine creation is evident in this shot.
• Restored offset at the 2016 Classic.
• Shampine's passing leaves a void - newspaper article written by Dick O’Brien.
• Two Northeast racing greats lost their lives on the same weekend in September of 1982.

Drivers Killed At Oswego Speedway