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Chapter 9 Daytona International Speedway CHAPTER 9 Daytona International Speedway n 1967 John Wyer invited me to drive his to keep my foot hard on the throttle in the OPPOSITE I drove both I formidable GT40-based Mirage with Jacky Ickx steeply angled turn known as NASCAR 3, the Gulf Porsches in the 1970 in the Daily Mail Nine Hours at Kyalami, South critical corner for a fast lap time. My hesitation 24 Hours of Daytona, Africa’s leading circuit. That solid win together had a lot to do with approaching a steep wall this second-placed 917 paved the way for our partnership in the 1968 at about 195mph. Even more daunting was the with Jo Siffert and the season, beginning with the 24 Hours of Daytona. incredible compression on the chassis, and my winning Rodriguez/ I had raced on a banked track twice before, body, as centrifugal forces pushed the car up Kinnunen car, replacing in Nick Cussons’ Ford GT40 at the 1966 Monza the embankment towards the looming concrete Leo for a stint. 1,000Kms – my first race abroad – and at barrier. Suitably embarrassed, I asked my younger Getty Images/ Montlhéry with David Piper’s Ferrari 250 LM in co-driver if he were flat out all the way through The Enthusiast Network the 1967 Paris 1,000Kms. In fact the latter event, NASCAR 3. ‘Yes, of course, Bree-an,’ Jacky replied, in which Richard Attwood and I finished sixth in ‘but each time I sink zat I fly to ze moon.’ pouring rain, was the prompt for Wyer to contact If you can imagine what it might be like to drive me for the Kyalami drive. Whereas the huge around the inside of a cereal bowl, you have a banked bowl at Montlhéry dates back to 1924 pretty good idea of the bizarre attitudes a racing and remains active as a proving ground today, car takes on Daytona’s high banks. Still, with all Monza’s high-speed oval was fairly short-lived. due respect, until you have ticked off a couple of First used in 1955, it was abandoned by Formula hundred day-and-night laps tilted at this unnatural 1 after the 1961 Italian Grand Prix, the race angle over the course of 24 hours, your imagination blighted by the death of Wolfgang von Trips and still has room to stretch. There’s more to Daytona 15 spectators, but continued as a sports-car venue than its high banking, of course, but the slingshots until 1969. It also featured stirringly in Grand Prix, they provide onto two long straights are what John Frankenheimer’s fine 1966 racing film. Now make this track fast, difficult and dangerous. just one section of Monza’s banking remains, Think of the Daytona International Speedway as truncated by grandstands perched above the a broad, upright, elongated oval with the vertical modern track’s Turn One. stretch on the right-hand side pulled out in a All the same, learning Daytona’s steeply graceful arc to form a shape that is, whimsically banked curves was a new challenge, and enough, like a giant capital ‘D’. This arc is banked I found the process unnerving. Despite at 18 degrees, enhancing a car’s grip and, therefore, considerable determination, I couldn’t seem its speed, but actually angled to give grandstand 178 BRIAN REDMAN DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY 179 ABOVE Prior to my spectators a close-up view of the cars in profile. NASCAR involved and committed. Consider what it took to and in its heyday the Daytona International ABOVE We heroes of racing on Daytona’s high Daytona’s start/finish line crosses the centre of Daytona is the beating heart of the National produce your breakfast. The chicken may have been Speedway could accommodate 150,000 fanatically the 1968 Gulf GT40 team banks, I had experienced this arc and has prime seating above for tens of Association for Stock Car Auto Racing and the involved, but the pig was committed.’ partisan supporters of larger-than-life superstar survey our world, me at Monza’s rain-soaked thousands of fans. Jutting out over the hallowed premier venue for this massively popular racing From 1936 until 1959, races were held on a thin drivers, fans parking their cars in reserved left (on my first visit to inclines in the 1966 stripe is a platform that has hosted a spectrum of series for faux street sedans that resonates among 4.2-mile loop alongside the Atlantic Ocean. The single-marque corrals. NASCAR events have the USA) with Jacky 1,000Kms driving Nick flag-waving celebrities, including several serving millions of white-collar, blue-collar and no-collar main straight was two miles of Highway A1A always featured ‘stock’ cars, their facsimile bodies Ickx, David Hobbs Cussons’ Ford GT40 with American presidents, enlisted to drop the green American fans. NASCAR was launched in 1948 connected by a quick U-turn onto Daytona’s hard- shaped to resemble family sedans, but with little and Paul Hawkins. Richard Bond, finishing flag on the starting marshal’s command. by ‘Big’ Bill France as a way to gather together packed sandy beach, where competitors duelled or nothing about them off-the-shelf stock. Courtesy of John Horsman in ninth place. The only flat surface of the tri-oval, directly a scattering of individual events for ‘stock’ cars for two more miles along the water’s edge before Daytona is home to two race tracks. From the LAT opposite the start/finish line, is the long back into a championship series. It turned out to be a swinging back onto the highway for another lap. speedway’s inception, all sports racers, including straight that connects the two sets of nearly billion-dollar idea. Even today, you may still drive your street car our exotic prototypes, have raced on a layout that identical banking. On this 1,000-yard stretch, a There’s an old story about this beginning that along these very stretches of road and beach, interrupts the tri-oval to incorporate an infield driver has time to check his gauges and relax a undoubtedly is apocryphal, but too amusing although more carefully: the current speed limit section, extending the track’s length from 2.5 little, albeit while accelerating towards 200mph. not to repeat. France, frustrated that former is a sedate 10mph. miles to over 3.5 and includes three of the four The aforementioned two sets of banking are in bootlegger and top driver Junior Johnson was By 1959 stock car racing was becoming a high-banked curves. Unlike most of the circuits fact the four celebrated 31-degree corners that give reluctant to sign up for the complete series, significant spectator sport. Forward-looking Bill I’ve raced on, Daytona runs anti-clockwise. the circuit its special character: NASCAR 1 and 2 invited him to a Southern breakfast of bacon, France invested $3 million (about $25 million For the stock cars, the arcing front straight at the top, NASCAR 3 and 4 at the bottom. Each eggs and grits. in today’s money) to create a huge uptown rises to enter NASCAR 1. Sports cars, however, is angled about as steeply as San Francisco’s most ‘Junior, you need to be committed to the entire speedway that could seat thousands of fans. skip NASCAR 1 and join the road racing circuit vertical hills, with one crucial difference – traffic series.’ By the time I arrived some nine years after the just beyond the pit exit and follow a boomerang- on Daytona’s inclines runs sideways. From within ‘Well, Bill, I plan to enter all the major races so bulldozers had departed, little about Daytona shaped track through six corners before re- a racing car, the road ahead seems to soar away in I really will be involved.’ had changed. Over the years attendance grew in entering the tri-oval between NASCAR 1 and a continuous uphill curve. ‘Junior, there’s an important difference between parallel with NASCAR’s increasing popularity NASCAR 2. 180 BRIAN REDMAN DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY 181 OPPOSITE Jacky Ickx, Daytona’s driving demands pointed the car directly at the outside wall just my young Belgian Visitors to Daytona may amuse themselves by 60 feet away, requiring a demonic commitment teammate, on the high trying to walk up the 31-degree banking without to open the throttle while changing direction by banks at 195mph in our help from their hands, but in doing so they are 90 degrees. The arc from the chicane exit into the John Wyer Ford GT40. one small slip away from scuffed palms. While apex had to be as aggressive as it was graceful, LAT ordinary road cars touring the high banking at and the bigger and smoother the radius, the speeds below 90mph are likely to slide to the more speed a car could carry; but the harder the lower apron, a racing car circulating at the limits acceleration, the more the car pushed towards of adhesion is shoved the opposite way, towards the wall at the top of the banking. NASCAR the outside concrete wall, experiencing the 3 was where races were won because even a same centrifugal forces as astronauts launched small speed advantage gained in this curve was from nearby Cape Canaveral. This unforgiving sustained for a full mile, all the way to NASCAR barrier, added in 1964 to prevent cars from 1. There was a pressing incentive to be fast. occasionally departing the circuit, brings the unfortunate consequence that contact with it The Daytona traffic jam usually causes a crashed car to rebound across The 24 Hours of Daytona (now known as the the track, much to the fright of its helpless driver ‘Rolex 24 at Daytona’) has always been a race and the distress of any racers bearing down on stuffed with competitors.
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