This isn’t just another Saturday night crash at Lebanon
Valley, it was one in that it forever changed the complexion of the Speedway
as we know it. Back when the track
opened, Lou Spanier and the crew had big tractor
tires lining the inside of the speedway to mark off the tracks dimensions,
like many speedway’s back then did (and some to this day still do).
The events that triggered this shot are this: The inside tractor tire
was hit and became dislodged, rolling onto the track, where the poor sap in
the #46 hit the gigantic tire and executed a series of nasty flips and barrel
rolls, forcing track officials to once and for all pick up the unsafe hazards
to make racing safer for all. Well, safer than what it was before
this night in 1959.
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