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The Highs and Lows of Riverside.(Review)(Riverside Raceway )
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
The track itself was a racer's dream: nine turns, 3.7 miles long, elevation changes, short turns, long turns, leaps, dives and the famous esses. From 1957 to 1988 Riverside Raceway hosted some of the greatest series ever-Can-Am, Trans-Am, NASCAR, IMSA, IROC, Indy Car; scores of motorcycle, drag, midget and off-road events ran the course like a parade of American motorsports history in the making. And some of the greatest drivers ever turned a wheel there, everybody from Mario Andretti to Cale Yarborough raced at Riverside.
Many of those drivers came together at the Petersen Automo-tive Museum in Los Angeles last month to celebrate the glory days of Riverside. Dan Gurney was the featured honoree for the Riverside Reunion, but others making the trek included Phil Hill, Parnelli Jones, Carroll Shelby and Bob Bondurant. There were also drivers who don't come out to things like this very often-Chuck Daigh, Jack McAfee, John Morton, Scooter Patrick, even Lothar Motschenbacher was on hand.
They all loved Riverside, and they all had stories to tell.
"Some of the best races I ever saw were at Riverside,'' said Trans-Am champ Morton, who won the Times Grand Prix of Endurance with Hurley Haywood there in 1987. Bondurant said he had a ball at Riverside, and McAfee recalled loving every minute of it.
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