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Thread: May 1,2.1971 NATIONAL BRIDGEHAMPTON plaque

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    Long Island HAD a lot of great tracks, with much history and significance. Alas, all gone now, very sad

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    Raced my 1976 Ducati 900SS there back in 1977 / 78 in AAMRR. Scary fast and satisfying.
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    Buddy Palumbo attended his first race at Bridgehampton.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mazza View Post
    Thank Chuck, thank you Chris and thank you to all of you guys!!

    I'm going to fix the plaque somewhere in the car!

    Unfortunately I live quite far from Bridgehampton.
    I think l I've no chance to drive my car there, but...who knows?
    You don't need to bother its a golf course now : (
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    You don't need to bother its a golf course now : (
    When it was up and running.....
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    Yes, the Hamptons snobbery took the track away, also took the Westhampton dragstrip as well. There is a 2500 acre, basically abandoned, area out there where Grumman built F14 Tomcats years ago. 2 10,000 ft runways that are solid concrete, in perfect shape, surrounded by enough polluted land to build any motorsports track conceivable. They are happy to just let the deer run on it. A fine example of BS politics

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    Bridgehampton, a marvelous part of my past before the NIMBY interests took it away. It didn't make any difference that the track was there long before most of them moved into the area. A race track with its perceived noise and traffic just didn't mesh with their life style so it had to go, only to be replaced by a golf course of which we already have too many. The sports car races at Bridgehampton were always great fun, but for sheer excitement nothing could come close to the few times in the early-mid '60s when NASCAR held the Grand National Stock Car events. My home is about 5 miles away across Peconic Bay. From the front porch with a telescope we could identify individual cars by their colors and the noise, even at that distance, made it seem as if the cars were running in the back yard. I miss "The Bridge."

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    Its probably ironic that at this point, there is some much $$ and wealth out there, they would probably love a track to race high performance cars at, an alternate country club scenario I would think. As the previous poster mentioned, there are now way too many golf courses on the east end.

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