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MARLBORO MOTOR RACEWAY The Marlboro oval was well banked. This made it a lot different than Vineland which also incorporated an oval. At Marlboro you were accelerating hard out of Cappy's corner and went uphill and onto the oval. You wanted to stay right to take level off the elevation difference on the banking - but sometimes you couldn't. Same for going off the oval onto the road circuit. Stay right and keep the wheels on the ground. With some of the fast cars it simply didn't work. One was never lonely on Marlboro. if there weren't cars around you everywhere you had little time to sight see, this was a tight course. Here are some random shots from the past including some BARC member shots from back in the day. Craige Pelouze - a Marlboro regular went with his Dad at the inaugural race in 1955. Here we show 5 shots of a very new and dusty Marlboro 1955 BARC home page MarlboroPg1 MarlboroPg2 MarlboroPg3 photo credits: Dave Zych, Dave Nicholas, Spankey Smith, Craige Pelouze |
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| Probably 1962 and
you can see those wood grandstands and the cars leaving the ground as they left the oval |
Fred Gambles long
tailed LeMans Birdcage lapping Tom Kerr's Corvette in 1961 |
67 Trans-Am and
Bruce Jennings shows his local knowledge edging Horst Kwech's Alfa |
65 Trans-Am and
Aussie Allan Moffat hands over to Milt Minter |
The fantastic, tight, slipping and sliding Marlboro. A real driver's course |
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| 1955 -A pair of Healey's tear it up. Note the flagmen's position, It would make the SCCA loss manager die today | 1955 -Two Jags go
sliding off the road coming out of the boot |
1955 -This TR heads off
road while chasing an Austin-Healey |
1955 Before MGB's or
MGA's the T series were racing regulars |
1955 Who can identify
what kind of MG the maroon car is? |
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| Dave Zych (#2) and
Judy Beattie (#13) talk it over in the paddock. |
Judy Beattie's
Lotus S7 escapes a spinning Mustang Refrigerator Bowl 1966 |
Alan Friedland (#14
) in front of Harry Reynolds (#80) with Steve Elfenbein (#40) in glasses on right |
A recent Google earth shot of Marlboro today. The old course is in red |
The beautiful and
fast Donna Mae Mims (#23) with Group 44's Bob Tullius behind making sure her TR3 is ready |