Tuesday, June 10, 2014

a terrific article from Aaron Robinson in Car and Driver where he interviews the owner of Willow Springs Raceway, Bill Huth

As you can imagine, Huth knew pretty much everybody. 

“Shelby was running a driving school. One day he said, ‘Bill, do you care if I tell people that I own this racetrack?’ I said, ‘Carroll, I don’t give a shit, you can tell them whatever you want to.’ ”

 Movie stars? “James Garner wouldn’t fit in the car when they made Grand Prix. They brought the car up, and he couldn’t get in the son of a bitch. They said, ‘You’re going to have to lose some fucking weight.’ ” 

And, “Oh, Steve McQueen, one time the transaxle in his Porsche broke, and he ordered six of them. They flew them in, six fucking axles! I says, ‘You must have a lot of trouble with them.’ ”

Huth is also developing the low-buck Formula Pacific, a sort of super kart with a motorcycle engine that he’s hoping will break Willow’s current lap record: 1 minute, 6.05 seconds, set in 1987 by Michael Andretti in a Kraco March ­Cosworth Indy car.



http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/aaron-robinson-gambling-whiskey-and-willow-springs-raceway-column for the whole article.

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