{"id":9667,"date":"2009-12-07T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:09:40","slug":"got-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/got-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Wood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9669\" title=\"Banked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked.jpg\" alt=\"Banked\" width=\"1000\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked-624x497.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked-278x221.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked-526x419.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked-556x444.jpg 556w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Banked-572x456.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Over the weekend we had the good fortune to stumble upon some amazing ancient footage from the earliest days of American motorsport, thanks to a very interesting blogsite the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jockeyjournal.com\"> Jockey Journal<\/a>.<br \/>\nImagine the noise and the reverberation of those incredible machines as they lapped a banked track at speeds of over 100 mph, and this in the first decades of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently by the 1930s wooden board track racing had almost disappeared \u2013 a victim of economics (it cost a fortune to keep the wooden tracks in race-able shape) and safety regulations (numerous racer and crowd deaths were recorded over the short history of the sport).<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jockeyjournal.com\/?p=620\">the machines that these guys were racing<\/a> were truly beautiful in a stripped-down mechanically basic sort of way. 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