Your favorite track

[quote="SE7ENMX":1a18f]Helvetia Park, Sacramrnto, CA.
Carnegia Park
SandHill Ranch
SearsPoin


Hey TricksterTed, we raced alot of the same tracks. Who are you?[/quote:1a18f]

Whoa, right in my back yard. I raced all of them. Sandhill was home.

Carnegie's top track. The one Decoster broke his frame on. That track was so fast. The old lower track was cool, because the Trans- AM guys rode on that. Magoo on his CZ 250 with blocks on the pegs.

[quote="SE7ENMX":f5691]Carnegie's top track. The one Decoster broke his frame on. That track was so fast. The old lower track was cool, because the Trans- AM guys rode on that. Magoo on his CZ 250 with blocks on the pegs.[/quote:f5691]

I have to respectfully disagree. It was really cool the first year, virigin grass, but it was a beat, baked clay piece of crap the years after that.

[quote="project racer":42297]The old St. Pete national track was a fun one . Also, Cocoa was one the roughest tracks I can recall. Anyone ever race at the old Croom Mx track? Old school, but fun.[/quote:42297]

Cocoa was a brute.

So was Sharps.

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Cocoa was a brute.

So was Sharps.[/quote:95997]

Tim .. wasn’t diamondback the same place as sharp’s or as some people called it cocoa ?

or were there multiple tracks in that area back then ?

Sharpes, Cocoa was the same place. Brevard county ohv park ,I believe they called it. I endo'ed there in practice one day in '79 and the whole next week my left side of my face was numb.

Catalina
[img:b07e1]http://www.trueartworks.com/library/large/0000-4689.jpg[/img:b07e1] I would have loved to ride that track
If I ever had the money I would buy the Island and bring it back. Once a year.

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I have to respectfully disagree. It was really cool the first year, virigin grass, but it was a beat, baked clay piece of crap the years after that.[/quote:0a9d5]

I guess being a local has some advantages. Carnegie's upper track was awesome a lot... if it was damp. I think the problem was getting water up there. It was a long way over the hill to the hydrant. The first year was wet, so it was good. Remember the Husky truck couldn't make it up the hill? They had to get a tractor of some sort to pull it up to the pits.

The upper track definately was remote. It didn't help that NorCal suffered a drought in those years. Adobe makes great bricks.

[quote="FreshTopEnd":b8202]The upper track definately was remote. It didn't help that NorCal suffered a drought in those years. Adobe makes great bricks.[/quote:b8202]
Thats what Metzlers were for.

"New" Carnegie track first year it was used in '73 (funky pic)

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One year later -- and this is in morning practice!

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I was even worse in '75, the year DeCoster's bike broke in half.

Great pictures. I remember it so well. Some mornings when it was foggy, you couldn't see the track from the pits just screaming two-strokes flying by. Had a father, son moment there a few years back. Sitting on top of the hill with my 15 year old son, I remembered my dad and I doing the same thing, you could see some of the old parts of the track, it was a special time with my son he kind of understood my feelings.

I stand corrected....

There were 2 tracks in that area. Sharps was known as "Cocoa", but named "Brevard County Offroad Vehicular Park". That was the track you turned at the Ranger/firewatch tower.

There was another sand track that I remember as "Brevard", but not sure of the name. I always (as an 11 year old) thought of that one as Cocoa.

1- Orlando Sports Stadium
2- Gatorback
3-Chicken Farm
Not to forget the Yamaha Paper Cup at Road Atlanta, Mike LaRoque and I had some fun with the locals, they were pissed!

1. mulberry mx. before the track owner crushed himself under his tractor. RIP Lyle.
2. flyin high mx, before randy yoho had the Wood's run out of town.

Carlsbad & Saddleback

Saddleback
Wallan, Victoria, Australia
Barabool, Victoria, Australia
Clarendon, South Australia

CRC had series race at Escape Country Nat. track once that took til 11:00 to finish practice. The grass was a foot and a half tall and soaked from heavy dew. It was pure slip and slide uphill and down for 3 hours until enough grass got worked down to to soiland then it was unreal. Most kids today would never believe what it is like to ride a true natural grass track.

1.lake whitney(rip)
2.oakhill
3. i35mx
4. azle school track
5. Underground mx

lake whitney, rio bravo, arroyo mx, rpmx, wild creek mx, cyclerama.

1.plymouth
2.plymouth
3.plymouth

I remember racing the old Croom MX track in 1978 when it was only open a few races. Then again in '81 and '82 . I think YOHO was running it the second time. Also I think Kenny Keylon's family lived on top of the hill above the track's west border. But I used you HATE driving 2 hours over to Cocoa just because we had to to get the points for district 8. And then , because everyone stayed home we would have less than 15 or so riders in the 125 B class and they would only give half points. I always thought that was BULLSHIT because they would penalize US (the ones who showed up) for the others not showing.
I felt like if the turn-out was low you should pay DOUBLE points to reward the faithful who did show up. Most other tracks graded the surface before a race , Orlando, St Pete, Chicken Farm, so during practice the track started out smooth and then got rougher throughout the day. But that Cocoa track was a frame breaker when you got there first thing in the AM. Giant sandy whoops that would beat you down.

Mike Laroque was a good friend of mine and the main reason for me getting into dirt biking. Would you happen to know how to get in touch with him?

1. Mini track at Indian Dunes
2. International track Indian Dunes
3. Shadow glen Indian Dunes
4. Saddleback
5. De Anza
6. Corona both tracks

Budds Creek, White 0aks in Fredericksburg Va., Carlsbad and Heman Nebraska.

I raced at Washougal, Woodland, Mountain View, MAC, PIR, Spanaway, Thurston, and Saddleback between 75 and 81. And Fox Hollow - which I loved most of all. It was fast and baked hard and I don't know why but I always found bite in it's high gear sweepers. And I loved it's fast low-lofting jumps. I remember one moto there, reeling in Randy Junwirth over many laps only to run out of gas and push my bike back up to the top. The wet winter sand at Spanaway and Thurston were heavenly too.

Plymouth
Early grass tracks at Hollister and Sears Point
Washougal
Marysville
Mammoth

Theme here = grass, sand or "natural terrain".

Deep grassy loam or sand. Tracks that would change from lap to lap.

Hands down: High Point, Mt. Morris, PA. District 5 PA & WV. Still in operation today.

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Ascot

Saddleback

Indian Dunes

my list goes ,,,, Ascot, saddleback, corona raceway then speedworld witch is in Az