Where Are They Now?

Each edition of this page will feature someone or something that impacted our flat track racing years. It could be a racer, a track owner, a promoter, a motorcycle shop owner, a race track or just a groovy person that was at the race track each week.

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April 21 2010: Received an email from our buddy Don Miller, owner of MetroRacing.com and technical advisor of the AMA Vintage National Dirt Track Championship Series. Miller worked hand-in-hand with AMA Racing to develop the class structure for the new series.

"Hey Eddie and George,

Here's a tid bit for ya. We had round 3 & 4 of the new AMA Vintage Dirt Track down at Ed Salley's Orangeburg Motoplex in Orangeburg,SC on April 17th.

Former Bultaco Super Star "Gonzo" Garth Brow was there for the pro race. It didn't take long before I conned him into taking my 250 Astro out to do battle in the '69-'76 250cc class. He was pretty impressed with how the ol gal ran.

He easily won the heat race and the final bay a long way. What's the chance of getting you guys up to Square Deal in June?? Sooner or later you're gonna have to come just to shut me up, HA!!

Later, Don"

(Garth Brow at Orangeburg Motoplex in Orangeburg, SC on April 17, 2010. Inset photo of Garth is from Greens Raceway in Disputanta, Va 1974)

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Billy Lloyd #64

Mid-Atlantic Motorcycle Racer originally from Langley Park, Md and a member of the Free State Cycle racing team. Billy now calls the state of Texas home and take a look at what he's up to these days!

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Marlboro Raceway

Located in Upper Marlboro, MD

A 1/3 mile dirt oval operated from July 21st, 1952 through August 23rd, 1953. A 4/10 mile dirt oval operated from September 13th, 1953 to the end of the year. The 1/3 mile paved oval opened on March 24th, 1954 and operated until the facility closed down in 1969.

Picture dated 2009

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Brewers Speedway 1993

Aerial shot provided by Brewers Racer Joe Yanulevich

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This edition of "Where Are They Now?" should be called "Where is it Now?" because we're going to feature a race track. For those of you who knew the thrill of racing at Greens Raceway in Disputanta, Va  you can rest easy. It hasn't become an office building, parking lot or even a housing development.

Take a look at the Google Earth image of Greens Raceway today in 2009. If you look real close you can even see the kettle that they used for the Saturday Night fish fries!

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For our First Edition we have selected an individual who was not only a racer but for many years a track owner too. If you were a flat tracker from Maryland or Northern Virginia chances are you raced at his track, and if you didn't then you probably got lost trying to get there!

His name is Clarence "Sookie" Ulmer. Sookie, as most of us who knew him, has relocated from Elkton, Md where his track was to a small town in South Dakota where he retired and has a home on top of a mountain. Geezer Racers Tim Stancill and Rusty Foard stopped in to see Sookie on a cross country motorycle trip that they took  from their homes in Maryland to Seattle and back. They caught the "relocated" Sookie at home in Montana and shot the picture of Sookie today. 

And before you ask the answer is YES that is Sookie's rusting Matchless G80 flat tracker in the picture...sad but true.

(Sookie is the #5 plate holder kneeling down in the upper right picture)