| Vaca Valley
Raceway Today
Website visitor Dann Shively
flew over Vaca Valley Raceway near Vacaville, California recently.
He took the aerial photos below. Dann also sent the track diagram
scanned from a 1964 program
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| It never occurred to
your webmaster that this track still existed. He'd long assumed that
it was bulldozed and subdivided, like
Riverside, into tract houses or a mall. Dann said that
the track was "pretty much deteriorated". I wonder how bad it it
could be? Asphalt is relatively cheap. Consider the cost of
creating an entirely new race venue somewhere else compared to acquiring
and repaving this historic course.
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| Your webmaster took photos
at the August 19-20, 1961 Vaca Valley Raceway event. Surprisingly,
considering the area and season, it rained on Saturday. He remembers
Sunday was a more typical summer day -- HOT! Here are links
to pages on the website with photos taken that weekend.
Jerry Grant: Top photo shows Grant on the main straight near Start/Finish. The spectator area along the straight was on a raised bank that provided a view of 100% of the course. There were grandstands here, too. The second photo shows Grant sliding off the course at Turn 2 during Saturday's wet event. Ed Leslie: These photos show Leslie on the starting grid at Start/Finish. Dave MacDonald: This photo was taken farther along the main straight near Turn 1. Lew Florence: Florence in Rod Carveth's Ferrari Testa Rossa near Start/Finish.
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