Free hot dogs and soft drinks will be available in the lot next door at Shymske's Auto Center. Tom Shaver, the owner of Good Olde Daze, is hosting the reunion. It's the annual Cloverleaf Speedway Reunion and it will be held from 5-11 p.m.Īt Good Olde Daze, 6001 State Road. PARMA - The thrill of speeding stock cars on warm summer evenings at Cloverleaf Speedway will be revived on Friday night. It cost Osiecki $35,000 to win the $10,000 of which Malone got $2500! Several blown engines and many shredded tires later Malone ran an estimated 226 mph on the straights and 170 mph in the turns to circle the track in 49.59 seconds. Six other drivers including NASCAR great's Curtis Turner and Buck Baker tried their hands before Malone got behind the wheel. Builder Bob Osiecki took an Indy car and a supercharged fuel injected 413 Chrysler bored to 450 cu in producing 800 hp on alcohol to do it. Bill France had posted a $10,000 reward to the first person to crack 180 mph after a death caused USAC to remove Daytona from their schedule. › Cloverleaf Speedway Drivers ▆Īrt Malone drove the 'Mad Dog IV' shown here at Bristol Speedway, to a new closed-course world record of 181.561 mph at the Daytona Speedway in 1961.
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