Video: Forty Years Ago The Most Spectacular Fire In The History Of Dirt Track Racing Took Place In Kansas At The Hutchinson Nationals

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Thanks to BangShifter Don McGinnis we have this incredible video to show you today about a catastrophe that happened 40 years ago and has largely been lost to the unrelenting march of time. This is video of the horrifying fire that took place at the 1974 Hutchinson Nationals Supermodified race. This incident is an amazing […]

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MAN.... I remember that like yesterday. Lotta local racers like Grady Wade, Harold Leep, Jay Woodside, and Jack Petty still carry scars from that race - some on their souls, and Jack STILL looks bad all these years later. His whole family is still involved in racing, and many racers either remember this fire or know someone who was there. You just say "the Hutch fire", and people turn gray all these years later. Some of these racers ran the national circuit - a few like Harold Leep and Jay Woodside got to run at Indy. It was a tight community, and still is. People remember this race with dread, and it made the national news.