Abandoned Race Track Driven! Lake Garnett Grand Prix Revival 2021!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- A ghost track resurrected!, we got to visit and drive historic Lake Garnett Raceway, in Garnett, Kansas! We were able to drive this otherwise abandoned race track thanks to the efforts of a small team who put together the Lake Garnett Grand Prix Revival, an annual event celebrating the racers, race cars, and history surrounding this former professional road racing event. We feel privileged to have driven in the tire tracks of some real legends and to have at least gotten a taste of what it might have been like to race here back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
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Born and Raised in Garnett, my Grandpa Kenny helped organize the first Grand Prix to be held at Lake Garnett.
That's awesome. Definitely takes a lot of work to organize any professional sport, nevermind one that's going to bring in 10x the population of the town in spectators on a given weekend.
My Grandma Romig used to drive me around this lake. Such great nostalgia to see my long away from home.
I raced at the 1st kart race event in '65 and subsequent events till '73.... I also raced at Wentzville ... Greenwood ... Castle Rock ... Green Valley ... Lake Afton ... Maysville ... Shreveport nat'l in '65 ... IRP nat'l in '66. my 1st race was in the old american royal bldg in KC. 1959 on a missle kart and a Mc-10. Long ago and far away. can't remember the name of that other track in Texas....
Does the name Randy Romig mean anything to you?
❤ am saving this video. I got to see a piece /place of my childhood intou video. Richard, thank you❤
This is nuts! Just watched the one on ponca city where I mostly grew up, then in that video I found out that garnett the town I was born in and spent the first 5 years of my life in had a grand price as well! How crazy!
They just opened registration for this year's revival in Garnett. It's a good time if you're still in the region!
@@LapoftheWorld thanks for the info. I don't live there anymore but I have plenty of family around the area. May have to make a trip up there even just to watch.
Born and raised in Garnett, I lived there throughout the run of the Lake Garnett Grand Prix. I clearly remember the "race riot" that contributed to the demise of the event. I have been around the lake countless times but never "at speed". Many thanks for a great video. Rhoads E. Stevens, MD Honolulu, Hawaii
Glad you enjoyed the video! My wife and I passed the time on the drive to and from the event reading up on every newspaper article we could find about the events (both on and off track). Very interesting times.
Very nice video! thanks for showing us the beauty of this place
Amazing to see the real thing only a couple of weeks of doing a race on the virtual version of that very track myself.
Love the video and love the stories!
I attended the 69 and 72 races, it was awesome
Never heard it pronounced like the gemstone. I was born there, my mother was from that area and everyone around there pronounced it "gar-net"
This is a beautiful town. I’ve had the opportunity to visit the track and race on the small kart track in 2019 & 2020. Really is a stunning place in a small but lovely Kansas community. It feels weird to visit a place ran by legends like Ken Miles and Dave MacDonald, names from the past that should be remembered for the years in the future.
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This video is absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for making the trip out here. It was my first track event and what a perfect weekend it was. It was so awesome getting to meet you and your wife, you guys are absolute rock stars!
Great meeting you as well! Definitely a good time in good company!
@@LapoftheWorld Now about that questionable barbecue, maybe we can fix that next year lol
Everything look amazing this have to be so interesting for sure! Great video Great story Respect for those who race in this track back then..
A really great video. Thanks for coming all this way and spreading the work about the Lake Garnett Grand Prix. Though we did not meet as I was working the autocross on Saturday, I hope to see you there again. Next time you can run the autocross on Saturday and the track on Sunday when there are a lot more track cars.
We'll keep that in mind! I was an autocross regular for years with our local SCCA region. Never did any national events given my cars have always been class orphans. Still love dodging a few cones when I can make it out.
I wish I knew about this. Would have definitely been worth it.
Fantastic video and very accurate on the Lake Garnett Grand Prix back then the the Revival today.
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. This was a fun one to learn about and make.
Such a great job on this video! It was a pleasure meeting the two of you on Saturday, and hope to see you out there again (plan for a couple Sunday runs :) next time). Best of luck to you guys in your travels to all the future track you get to run!
Thanks Matt! It was great to meet you as well and we hope the video did some justice to the hard work all of you put into the event!
Great video, very nice editing in the vintage footage! Hope you can make it back in the future!
We hope to be back at some point as well, it was a fun way to spend a weekend, experience some history, and learn something new!
Thank you so much for making this video! It is exactly like how you described it, and I fell in love with the place and the people. I am excited to hopefully go back again next year!
I have an in-progress version of the historic track in Assetto Corsa that I've been working on on-and-off for about a year, in between other projects. In a fairly-accurate 427 S/C Shelby Cobra, Welda Corner is a slight lift to keep the car from running wide on exit (and subsequently going airborne over the railroad tracks), and then you are nearly at redline in 4th by the time you hit the braking point for the haybale chicane. If you do go off, the drainage swales on either side of the road ensure that recovering is not going to be straightforward affair. I'm not at all surprised that a few competitors ended up in the lake during the event's original run.
I believe I found some video of your work in progress. Looks good so far! I always try to find a sim mod to practice/memorize the layout in advance. Definitely post back once it's finished!
Great video as usual. I especially love the ghost track revival part of the story. Hopefully you can find more places like this!
I'm always looking!
This was such a cool event! Was the barbecue in a food truck or somewhere else? 🤔
Definitely a fun experience! There was a"food truck" style setup with a couple of bbq options near the paddock area. There was I think a taco truck over near the spectator area.
I really love these ghost tracks you find as you travel around. I'm wondering if there will be a cascade effect as this event will lead you to another, and another after that somewhere else in the country. We can only hope!
Definitely a few places you could at least physically do something like that!
Awesome video! What a unique track, would have been terrifying at speed. They would have been doing 150ish for sure on that straight, I hit 148mph on the 4700 foot straight on the 3.1 mile course at BIR. I would like to attend this event sometime.
It's definitely a nice way to spend a weekend if you get down that way! ...and yeah, I'm not sure I'd have wanted the pressure of competition or money on the line when trying to push a car around a de-restricted version of this course. As cool as it is to imagine having a race or open track day at some of the old road/street courses you definitely can see where modern safety standards are necessary to keep the hobby/sport/everyone-involved alive.
thank you for sharing such great content ! I mean, LotW is probably my favourite NSX youtube channel, and not only for the NSX things I learn, but for nice stories like these. Very interesting ! We also have some ghost tracks like these in France, and some revival events. I hope to attend one someday with my black nsx too.
Btw, I just noticed you have a Nordschleife racetrack sticker, did you really make it to this track with your NSX ??
Thanks for the kind words. 'Always great to hear from others in the NSX community! It's our goal/dream to ship the NSX to Europe for a track tour, but it hasn't happened yet. We have been to the 'ring a few times, but always in rental cars so far.
Loved your video. Accurately portrays most of the event activities in conjunction with fascinating history tidbits. Looking forward to seeing you again next year! (*wink)
I love these 'lost' racetrack videos so much. Keep up the great work. In the drone shots, there looked to be a smaller track on the property as well. Is that for karting?
Yes, the small track is a go-kart track. I have also since learned that they still occasionally run actual races with 125cc karts on the full circuit. So it's 'lost' to cars, but not necessarily to all racing. I'd still be super sketched about yeeting myself across that dam in a kart though, lol
Not really an "Abandoned" race track, it's just that the car guys weren't able to figure out a way to run on it for a long time. The Road Race kart guys have been racing there many years. Not on just the small Sprint track, but a couple of times a year on the big one. th-cam.com/video/vb5DvqDpZw8/w-d-xo.html
I moved to Eugene Oregon a few years after Oregon Raceway was closed, thanks to a crappy asphalt job that fell apart, and that corrupt courts let the rotten pavement stand as a 'good job'. Quite a number of times, sports car drivers were able to break in and carefully take a lap or two. Sadly, I was not among them. Shortly after then the site began to be buried in garbage, and is today known as Short Mountain Landfill.
I wasn't aware of the story behind it's closure but we considered driving by the site when we were recently out in Oregon. Unfortunately we took a different route back home so that one will have to wait a bit longer to see if anything recognizable is left there.
if you dont mind me asking, what app were you using on your phone, Was it Harry's Lap timer?????
The android version of RaceChrono Pro. Not sponsored but I've tried a few and it's the best phone app I've found. Track addict is a close second.
@@LapoftheWorld thank you so very much for responding to my message really do appreciate it if you don't mind me asking does rice krono is it good enough to be able to use for Auto Crossing or is it just good enough to be used for track events I have been trying to use track addict for a number of seasons but unless I just do something wrong in the setup I never can get it to work right and that's over two seasons worth
@@pizzasubs Race Chrono Pro can be set up for point-to-point. For autocross you'd probably want to tie it to an external GPS of 10hz or more though since time margins are much thinner vs. on a road course. One reason I don't use Track Addict is that it would have inexplicable GPS signal loss, or rather it didn't handle signal loss very gracefully where Race Chrono (and Harry's) seemed unaffected.
Lake Garnett Circuit = Bremgarten Circuit. The Devil's racetrack
Had to look up Bremgarten but have now pencilled that in to hypothetical future European trip.
Tim Colvin