The first piece of flashback racing was written by Gene Romero about a 100 mile roadrace held on June 14th 1970 at Bryar Motor Sport park, Loudon, N.H. , which was part of the frantic chase for the nation Championship.
“SMOOTH AND TRICKY”
Sunday’s big bike race results
1.GARY NIXON
2.DAVE SMITH
3.DON EMDE
4.YVON du HAMEL
5.WALT FULTON
6.FRANK CAMILLIERI
7.DUSTY COPPAGE
8.DAVE ALDANA
9.GENE ROMERO
10.JIM RICE
and gene writes-
AMA entry blanks and everything call it Loudon, but the racers call it Laconia. The 250 event on Saturday was the best road race I’ve ever been to as far as competition and passing. The race between Nixon and Yvon du Hamel was like the action in an indoor short track, not a long, strung-out thing. The lead swapped each lap. Nixon’s motorcycle finally expired, but it was a fantastic race. The next day in the big bike race, they’d run some kind of sporty car race in the week previous and when the sun came out, it was real oily. It caused several accidents, wiped out the Suzuki team, Don Castro got off and so did Ron Pierce and Chuck Palmgren. It was a demanding race track. The officials did the best they could but you had to ride according to the conditions, like a braking contest, then accelerate. But it was good racing. Nixon, pushing that 3 cylinder around, had to bite off a good chunk and he did it- put in a fantastic ride. Rayborn had some bad luck and slid out in a corner. It put him out of the big race but he healed up pretty quick and was back racing in a short time. but Nixon didn’t just run away with the program- he put up a good battle for it. The local place we stayed was a motel in Concord, The Highway Inn I think, and there was some excitement there, and at a night club called the Bear Inn or Bear Cat or something like that.
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The footage is great. I used to go to the races a lot with my grandfather at bryar and louden back in the seventies, Careance Mconny (Mac). He was involved in the races a lot back then.
Mac McConney was the guy that got me into roadracing. He thought every biker should race. We took him up to the vintage races a few years before he died at 99. He remembered everything from the old days. I started racing again in 98 when I was 60 and I’m still at it. More fun than an old guy should be allowed.