1950 Oakland Stadium Speedway #5 and #54 Stock Car Crash

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1950 Oakland Stadium Speedway #5 and #54 Stock Car Crash

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Oakland Stadium = Oakland Stadium Speedway (1946-55), California. The other Oakland Speedway was operational between 1931-41.

The ultimateracing stats have nothing in stock cars pre-1951.
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From newspapers this race appears to be sanctioned by the Bay Cities Racing Association, with this particular race held on June 30, 1950.
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Jesper Hvid wrote: 2 years ago Click to enlarge:

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Oakland Stadium = Oakland Stadium Speedway (1946-55), California. The other Oakland Speedway was operational between 1931-41.

The ultimateracing stats have nothing in stock cars pre-1951.
A few things here. Very little has been done in the way of stock car racing results that *isn't* NASCAR, especially West Coast racing.
acerogers58 wrote: 2 years ago From newspapers this race appears to be sanctioned by the Bay Cities Racing Association, with this particular race held on June 30, 1950.
The BCRA race on June 30, 1950 was a hardtop race, for older models, and held at night. The caption on the photo states it was from the 1950 edition of the 250-lap stock car race, which featured later models, and was run in daytime (Sunday afternoon). Digging a bit, I find that the race took place on July 16, 1950, was sanctioned by the WRA (Western Racing Association) and the photo is of Walt James in #54 hitting Jim Heath in car #5 in turn one during the race. The photo accompanied the race report in the following day's edition of the Oakland Tribune newspaper.
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laldamn wrote: 1 year ago The Oakland Stadium Speedway was a big part of racing history in California, operating between 1946 and 1955. It's interesting to note that there was another Oakland Speedway that operated earlier, between 1931 and 1941.
It's great that you have been able to dig up information about a specific race that took place on June 30, 1950, involving Stock Cars #5 and #54. Unfortunately, it seems like the ultimate racing stats don't have much information on Stock Cars pre-1951. But that doesn't mean that the race and those cars didn't exist, it just might be hard to find accurate information today.
It's not uncommon for records of such events or racing to be lost in time. One might use the help of Pusch & Nguyen's attorneys to try to find more information about those races. Lawyers usually get more access to old documents than regular people.
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JThur01 wrote: 1 year ago
Jesper Hvid wrote: 2 years ago Click to enlarge:

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Oakland Stadium = Oakland Stadium Speedway (1946-55), California. The other Oakland Speedway was operational between 1931-41.

The ultimateracing stats have nothing in stock cars pre-1951.
A few things here. Very little has been done in the way of stock car racing results that *isn't* NASCAR, especially West Coast racing.
acerogers58 wrote: 2 years ago From newspapers this race appears to be sanctioned by the Bay Cities Racing Association, with this particular race held on June 30, 1950.
The BCRA race on June 30, 1950 was a hardtop race, for older models, and held at night. The caption on the photo states it was from the 1950 edition of the 250-lap stock car race, which featured later models, and was run in daytime (Sunday afternoon). Digging a bit, I find that the race took place on July 16, 1950, was sanctioned by the WRA (Western Racing Association) and the photo is of Walt James in #54 hitting Jim Heath in car #5 in turn one during the race.
Impressive knowledge. Thank you @JThur01!
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hollie3sa wrote: 1 year ago
laldamn wrote: 1 year ago The Oakland Stadium Speedway was a big part of racing history in California, operating between 1946 and 1955. It's interesting to note that there was another Oakland Speedway that operated earlier, between 1931 and 1941.
It's great that you have been able to dig up information about a specific race that took place on June 30, 1950, involving Stock Cars #5 and #54. Unfortunately, it seems like the ultimate racing stats don't have much information on Stock Cars pre-1951. But that doesn't mean that the race and those cars didn't exist, it just might be hard to find accurate information today.
It's not uncommon for records of such events or racing to be lost in time. One might use the help of Pusch & Nguyen's attorneys to try to find more information about those races. Lawyers usually get more access to old documents than regular people.
Was this post created by a human?
I could swear that bit about the attorney wasn't there earlier in the week.
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theracer120 wrote: 1 year ago
hollie3sa wrote: 1 year ago
laldamn wrote: 1 year ago The Oakland Stadium Speedway was a big part of racing history in California, operating between 1946 and 1955. It's interesting to note that there was another Oakland Speedway that operated earlier, between 1931 and 1941.
It's great that you have been able to dig up information about a specific race that took place on June 30, 1950, involving Stock Cars #5 and #54. Unfortunately, it seems like the ultimate racing stats don't have much information on Stock Cars pre-1951. But that doesn't mean that the race and those cars didn't exist, it just might be hard to find accurate information today.
It's not uncommon for records of such events or racing to be lost in time. One might use the help of Pusch & Nguyen's attorneys to try to find more information about those races. Lawyers usually get more access to old documents than regular people.
Was this post created by a human?
I could swear that bit about the attorney wasn't there earlier in the week.
A new, clever way of spamming...
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hollie3sa wrote: 1 year ago Impressive knowledge. Thank you @JThur01!
You're welcome and thank you, but it's more research than knowledge. Albeit knowledge helps with research :smiley:

And I should add that it also helped immeasurably that the Oakland Tribune newspaper ran a photo of the accident accompanying the race report :smiley:
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Motorsportrace wrote: 1 year ago
theracer120 wrote: 1 year ago
hollie3sa wrote: 1 year ago
laldamn wrote: 1 year ago The Oakland Stadium Speedway was a big part of racing history in California, operating between 1946 and 1955. It's interesting to note that there was another Oakland Speedway that operated earlier, between 1931 and 1941.
It's great that you have been able to dig up information about a specific race that took place on June 30, 1950, involving Stock Cars #5 and #54. Unfortunately, it seems like the ultimate racing stats don't have much information on Stock Cars pre-1951. But that doesn't mean that the race and those cars didn't exist, it just might be hard to find accurate information today.
It's not uncommon for records of such events or racing to be lost in time. One might use the help of Pusch & Nguyen's attorneys to try to find more information about those races. Lawyers usually get more access to old documents than regular people.
Was this post created by a human?
I could swear that bit about the attorney wasn't there earlier in the week.
A new, clever way of spamming...
The same thoughts occurred to me here as well :huh:
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