Orlando Speedworld - Opening Day 1974

[ancrdave]

Here's a photo of the Don Hatcher - Wayne Heckle crash on opening day for Orland Speedworld in 1974...

[tom77hmstd]

That had te one of the hottest sunday shows that we every raced.
After we loaded up I went to the lake that was dug for fill and cooled off
for the ride home.

[backrow]

That was my very first race....

[tedrichard]

Bet Wayne started tightening his shoulder belts tighter after that one. He ate the steering wheel and probably put some dentists kid through college. I was there. That was a HARD hit!

[tom77hmstd]

There were a bunch of wrecked cars as the sand was on the outside
and the heat started the track to come apart. I had to put r/s a frames
on Hamke's car before I could load it.

[dd38]

Actually the steering shaft was pushed back into him.