THE PINES SPEEDWAY
WITH THE NEW MANAGMENT AND NEW NAME CAME A LOT OF NEW CHANGE TOO. FIARILLO AND CORSO WERE IN IT FOR THE ALMIGHTY BUCK. THE FIRST CHANGE WAS THE WAY DICIPLIN WAS HANDLED. WAYNE WEEKS WAS A VERY FAIR MAN ABOUT DICIPLINE NOT REALLY BEING THE CASE UNDER THE FIARILLO CORSO DAYS. MANY OF THE OLDER DRIVERS BEGAN DISSAPEARING BECAUSE THEY BELIVED THEIR WAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FAVORITISM BEING SHOWN TO THE DRIVERS FROM THE MEREDITH AREA. I WILL NOT OFFER AN OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT, BUT I WILL SAY IT APPEARED THAT KEEPING THE DOLLAR WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SAFETY IN A LOT OF CASES. RICHIE CORSO HAD BIG DREAMS FOR THE TRACK THAT I THINK WOULD HAVE BEEN EXACUTED HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE TIGHTNESS IN THE WALLET OF ROBERT FIARILLO.IT SEEMED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE MOST OF THE TRACK WAS BEING RUN BY VOLUNTEERS AND NOTHING WAS REALLY BEING PUT BACK IN TO IMPROVE ON THE FACILITY. THE RACING WAS VERY FAST BUT THE CAR COUNT WAS GETTING LOWER ALL THE TIME AND THE FANBASE WHICH MANY OF THEM WERE LONG TERM FANS BEGAN NOT SHOWING UP AS MUCH. AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS RICHIE CORSO AND FAMILY DECIDED TO LET FIARILLO RUN THE SHOW HIMSELF. AFTER THEY BOWED OUT FIARILLO RAN THE TRACK FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS WITH ALL THE VOLUNTEERS HE COULD GET. MANY PEOPLE VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME TO HELP BUT IT SEEMED LIKE GREED WAS BECOMING TO OVERTAKE THE SITUATION AND FIARILLO WAS FINDING IT HARDER TO FIND HELP AND SPONSORS. STILL THE PINES SPEEDWAY MADE CHAMPIONS OUT OF SOME OF THE YOUNGER DRIVERS THAT WERE AT THE END OF THE NORWAY PINES SPEEDWAY. RAY HEATH JR WAS ONE OF THESE GUYS.
THAT BLUE NUMBER 14 MODIFIED WAS ALWAYS RUNNING UP FRONT AND LIVING UP TO THE HEATH LEGACY.RAY MOSES WAS ANOTHER CAR THAT STOOD OUT FROM THIS ERA THE 4J DUSTY CRITTER WAS A FAST MACHINE, I KNOW CUZ I GOT TO TRY IT ONE NIGHT.
THE LATE MODEL CLASS AT THE PINES WAS PROBRABLY THE MOST FIERCE BUNCH OF RACE DRIVERS AROUND. THESE GUYS WERE HOT AND THEY HAD HOT CARS AND ALL OF THEM WERE HUNGRY. BRAD TAZ SHANKS WAS PROBRABLY THE HUNGRIEST AND LIVED UP TO HIS NICKNAME WHICH BROUGHT HIM A COUPLE CHAMPIONSHIPS.LEE HUGHES IS ANOTHER HARD DRIVER AND WAS ALWAYS A FRONT RUNNER. DAVE LAVOIE IN THE 2 LATE MODEL WAS ANOTHER CONSTANT WINNER.SARAH MOSES WAS THE FIRST GIRL TO WIN A FEATURE DRIVING FOR HER DAD BIG BILL MOSES. WE LOST BIG BILL BEFORE HE GOT TO SEE SARAH DRIVE HER LATE MODEL BUT I KNOW HE WOULD BE VERY PROUD. BEN ELDER WAS PROBRABLY THE WILDEST THING TO HIT THE RACETRACK AT THIS TIME BUT HE DID WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP. ALTHOUGH VERY WILD HE DID HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE A GOOD DRIVER.THE LAVANAWAY BRITHERS DON AND HAMMERIN HANK CAME DOWNFROM VERMONT TO LIVIN UP THE SHOW, THEY DID JUST THAT. THESE FELLAS COULD RACE.AND LETS NOT FORGET MIKEY HAMILTON AND MIKE KONDRAT THESE GUYS ONLY KNEW WIDE OPEN AND DROVE EVRTHING LIKE IT WAS A SPRINT CAR.WHICH THE ONE THING FIARILLO DID DO WAS BRING THE SPRINT CARS IN TO MAKE THINGS WILDER. THESE GUYS THUNDERED AROUND THIS TRACK AND YOUR HEART WOULD STOP AS THEY FLEW BY. TO APPRECIATE JUST HOW FAST THEY REALLY ARE ONE NEEDS TO GET IN THE FLAGBOX AND FLAG A RACE SO YOU LOOK HEAD ON AT THEM COMING AT YOU.I SWEAR MIKEY HAMILTON NEVER GOT STRAIGHT AND USED TO SHOWER THE PEOPLE IN THE PITS ON THE WAY BYE, AND WHEN YOU KNOW HIM AS LONG AS I HAVE IM SURE HE WAS LAUGHIN INSIDE THAT SPRINTER. MARK COLE IN THE 6X SPRINTER WAS A WILDMAN WHEN YOU GIVE HIM HORSEPOWER [ BELIVE ME I RACED AGAINST HIM IN MODS AND LATE MODELS] AND HE ISNT SCARED OF ANYTHING. I WROTE A SONG CALLED RUNNING ON THE RAGGED EDGE ABOUT THESE GUYS. MOST OF THESE GUYS WERE THE OLD MOD DRIVERS FROM NORWAY PINES MAKING A COMEBACK IN SOMETHING MORE THRILLING. TUNK BERRY AND ALAN NICOLS BOTH EXCELLANT COUPE DRIVERS RAN REAL GOOD IN THESE SPRINTERS.MIKEY HAMILTON IS ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNERS AT THE SPEEDWAY RANGING FROM THE SEVENTIES WHEN WAYNE WEEKS STARTED NORWAY PINES TO PRESENT TIME.ALTHOUGH FIARILLO DIDNT MANAGE THE SPEEDWAY THE SAME CALIPER AS WAYNE WEEKS DID ,HE DID PRODUCE SOME GREAT RACING AND KEPT THE TRACK ALIVE .SOME OF THE BEST DIRT DRIVERS IN THE AREA WERE PRODUCED AT THE PINES SPEEDWAY.IM SURE OF THE DATE BUT I BELIVE IN 2005 FIARILLO SOLD OUT TO THE RUMNEY LEGION AND THE TRACK WENT BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL NAME THE LEGION SPEEDWAY.THE LEGION WAS ON A MISSION TO MAKE THE TRACK FAMILY ORIENTATED ONCE AGAIN.BELOW IS A PICTURE GALLERY OF PICTURES I GOT OF THE TIME I RAN AT THE PINES SPEEDWAY. IF ANYONE HAD ANY PICTURES THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME ATgeetarmoses@hotmail.com, i
THAT BLUE NUMBER 14 MODIFIED WAS ALWAYS RUNNING UP FRONT AND LIVING UP TO THE HEATH LEGACY.RAY MOSES WAS ANOTHER CAR THAT STOOD OUT FROM THIS ERA THE 4J DUSTY CRITTER WAS A FAST MACHINE, I KNOW CUZ I GOT TO TRY IT ONE NIGHT.
THE LATE MODEL CLASS AT THE PINES WAS PROBRABLY THE MOST FIERCE BUNCH OF RACE DRIVERS AROUND. THESE GUYS WERE HOT AND THEY HAD HOT CARS AND ALL OF THEM WERE HUNGRY. BRAD TAZ SHANKS WAS PROBRABLY THE HUNGRIEST AND LIVED UP TO HIS NICKNAME WHICH BROUGHT HIM A COUPLE CHAMPIONSHIPS.LEE HUGHES IS ANOTHER HARD DRIVER AND WAS ALWAYS A FRONT RUNNER. DAVE LAVOIE IN THE 2 LATE MODEL WAS ANOTHER CONSTANT WINNER.SARAH MOSES WAS THE FIRST GIRL TO WIN A FEATURE DRIVING FOR HER DAD BIG BILL MOSES. WE LOST BIG BILL BEFORE HE GOT TO SEE SARAH DRIVE HER LATE MODEL BUT I KNOW HE WOULD BE VERY PROUD. BEN ELDER WAS PROBRABLY THE WILDEST THING TO HIT THE RACETRACK AT THIS TIME BUT HE DID WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP. ALTHOUGH VERY WILD HE DID HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE A GOOD DRIVER.THE LAVANAWAY BRITHERS DON AND HAMMERIN HANK CAME DOWNFROM VERMONT TO LIVIN UP THE SHOW, THEY DID JUST THAT. THESE FELLAS COULD RACE.AND LETS NOT FORGET MIKEY HAMILTON AND MIKE KONDRAT THESE GUYS ONLY KNEW WIDE OPEN AND DROVE EVRTHING LIKE IT WAS A SPRINT CAR.WHICH THE ONE THING FIARILLO DID DO WAS BRING THE SPRINT CARS IN TO MAKE THINGS WILDER. THESE GUYS THUNDERED AROUND THIS TRACK AND YOUR HEART WOULD STOP AS THEY FLEW BY. TO APPRECIATE JUST HOW FAST THEY REALLY ARE ONE NEEDS TO GET IN THE FLAGBOX AND FLAG A RACE SO YOU LOOK HEAD ON AT THEM COMING AT YOU.I SWEAR MIKEY HAMILTON NEVER GOT STRAIGHT AND USED TO SHOWER THE PEOPLE IN THE PITS ON THE WAY BYE, AND WHEN YOU KNOW HIM AS LONG AS I HAVE IM SURE HE WAS LAUGHIN INSIDE THAT SPRINTER. MARK COLE IN THE 6X SPRINTER WAS A WILDMAN WHEN YOU GIVE HIM HORSEPOWER [ BELIVE ME I RACED AGAINST HIM IN MODS AND LATE MODELS] AND HE ISNT SCARED OF ANYTHING. I WROTE A SONG CALLED RUNNING ON THE RAGGED EDGE ABOUT THESE GUYS. MOST OF THESE GUYS WERE THE OLD MOD DRIVERS FROM NORWAY PINES MAKING A COMEBACK IN SOMETHING MORE THRILLING. TUNK BERRY AND ALAN NICOLS BOTH EXCELLANT COUPE DRIVERS RAN REAL GOOD IN THESE SPRINTERS.MIKEY HAMILTON IS ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNERS AT THE SPEEDWAY RANGING FROM THE SEVENTIES WHEN WAYNE WEEKS STARTED NORWAY PINES TO PRESENT TIME.ALTHOUGH FIARILLO DIDNT MANAGE THE SPEEDWAY THE SAME CALIPER AS WAYNE WEEKS DID ,HE DID PRODUCE SOME GREAT RACING AND KEPT THE TRACK ALIVE .SOME OF THE BEST DIRT DRIVERS IN THE AREA WERE PRODUCED AT THE PINES SPEEDWAY.IM SURE OF THE DATE BUT I BELIVE IN 2005 FIARILLO SOLD OUT TO THE RUMNEY LEGION AND THE TRACK WENT BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL NAME THE LEGION SPEEDWAY.THE LEGION WAS ON A MISSION TO MAKE THE TRACK FAMILY ORIENTATED ONCE AGAIN.BELOW IS A PICTURE GALLERY OF PICTURES I GOT OF THE TIME I RAN AT THE PINES SPEEDWAY. IF ANYONE HAD ANY PICTURES THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME ATgeetarmoses@hotmail.com, i
WOODY MCLOUD
WOODY MCLOUD WAS PROBRABLY ONE OF THE FUNNIEST GUYS I EVER HAD THE PRIVLEDGE OF RACING WITH.WOODY ALONG WITH HIS SIDEKICK PHIL RICHARDSON .THESE TWO GUYS WERE LIKE PARKING NEXT TO LAUREL AND HARDY. THEY WOULD PICK ON EACH OTHER AND EVERYONE AROUND THEM.I KNEW THE BOTH OF THEM SINCE I WAS A YOUNG TEENAGER AND, YOU TALK ABOUT MOTORHEADS, THESE TWO GUYS LOVED POWER.WHEN I WAS FOURTEEN I WAS WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL AND PHIL RICHARDSON CAME ALONG WITH A FLIPNOSE 55 CHEVY WITH A 454 IN AND ASKED ME IF I WANTED A RIDE. WELL I GOTTA TELL YA I GOT A RIDE ALRIGHT BUT HE HAD IT UNDER CONTROL.ONE OTHER LITTLE NOTE I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION ABOUT PHIL. IF YOU WERE WALKING HE WOULD PULL OVER AND YOU WOULD RUN TOWARDS THE CAR AND HE WOULD TAKE OFF. THAT BASTARD. HE WOULD GIVE YOU A RIDE BUT YOU EARNED IT.WHEN PHILLIP AND WOODY TEAMED UP AND STARTED THE #70 TEAM THEY HAD IT TOGETHER.PHIL WAS A PERFECTIONIST AND GREW UP AROUND BUCK MOSES HELPING HIM WORK ON HIS RACECARS.HE HAD A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CHASSIS AND TRUST ME HE COULD BUILD A MOTOR. HE WAS ALSO GOOD FRIENDS WITH UNCLE LEE EMERY A VERY NOTED ENGINE BUILDER.I DROVE A FEW OF WOODYS RACECARS AND BELIVE ME THEY WERE HOOKED UP AND HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH POWER.
WHEN WE WERE TEENAGERS WOODY HAD A 70 CHEVELLE THAT WOULD HAUL SERIOUS BUTT. HE WASNT AFRAID TO PUSH IT IETHER. I WAS INVOLVED IN SEVERAL DRAG RACES AGAINST HIM.WHEN HE GOT BEHIND THE WHEEL OF HIS MOD HE WAS FEARLESS. I SEE HIM GO INTO HOLES WHERE I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT MORE THAN TWICE.AND IN THE END WOODY MCLOUD GOT THE TROPHY. ONCE THE PINES SPEEDWAY PUT ON A BIG RACE SPONSORED BY BIG DADDY MIKE RIVERS. A COUPLE OF CARS CAME FROM OTHER TRACKS AND LOOKED AROUND AND I HEARD ONE OF THEM SAY( THIS WILL BE LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM BABIES} WELL THEY FORGOT ONE SUCKER. WOODY GAVE THESE BOYS A GOOD OL TASTE OF DOWN HOME DIRT TRACKIN. HE WAS LIKE A ROCKET.I THINK HE THOUGHT HE WAS BACK DOWN OLD HILL VILLAGE RACIN ME TO THE PARTY DOWN THE SECOND FIELD. HE WAS TAKIN CHANCES LIKE I NEVER SEE HIM TAKE. WOODY AND ROCKETMAN RICKY MARTEL PUT ON ONE OF THE WILDEST MODIFIED RACES I EVER WITNESSED.IN THE END WOODY MCLOUD NOSED THAT #37 INTO THE LEAD AND KEPT THE GOLD FOR THE HOME BOYS. I DONT WANNA SELL MARTEL SHORT THOUGH BECAUSE HE WAS HELL BENT ON OWNING IT.WOODY PUT THE LOCAL BOYS THROUGH THE WRINGER. RAY MOSES HAD MANY HARD RACES WITH WOODY WHERE WOODY CAME OUT ON TOP A LOT. DAVE SANVILLE PUT SOME GOOD SHOWS ON WITH WOODY ALSO. HE WAS TOUGH I RACED HIM A LOT OF TIMES AND HE DIDNT KNOW WHERE THE LIMIT WAS. WE LOST WOODY TO A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT, JUST BEFORE WE LOST WOODY ,PHILLIP DIED SUUDENLY, AND SHORTLY AFTER THEIR OTHER TEAMMATE WOOFIE GEORGE BROTHER TO BILL GEORGE PASSED AWAY . THE WHOLE TEAM WAS LOST WITHIN A FEW MONTHS. IT WAS VERY SAD TIME BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL GREAT GUYS AND WOODY WASNT DONE WINNING YET. WOODY WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AROUND RUMNEY AND CAANAN RACETRACKS.
WHEN WE WERE TEENAGERS WOODY HAD A 70 CHEVELLE THAT WOULD HAUL SERIOUS BUTT. HE WASNT AFRAID TO PUSH IT IETHER. I WAS INVOLVED IN SEVERAL DRAG RACES AGAINST HIM.WHEN HE GOT BEHIND THE WHEEL OF HIS MOD HE WAS FEARLESS. I SEE HIM GO INTO HOLES WHERE I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT MORE THAN TWICE.AND IN THE END WOODY MCLOUD GOT THE TROPHY. ONCE THE PINES SPEEDWAY PUT ON A BIG RACE SPONSORED BY BIG DADDY MIKE RIVERS. A COUPLE OF CARS CAME FROM OTHER TRACKS AND LOOKED AROUND AND I HEARD ONE OF THEM SAY( THIS WILL BE LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM BABIES} WELL THEY FORGOT ONE SUCKER. WOODY GAVE THESE BOYS A GOOD OL TASTE OF DOWN HOME DIRT TRACKIN. HE WAS LIKE A ROCKET.I THINK HE THOUGHT HE WAS BACK DOWN OLD HILL VILLAGE RACIN ME TO THE PARTY DOWN THE SECOND FIELD. HE WAS TAKIN CHANCES LIKE I NEVER SEE HIM TAKE. WOODY AND ROCKETMAN RICKY MARTEL PUT ON ONE OF THE WILDEST MODIFIED RACES I EVER WITNESSED.IN THE END WOODY MCLOUD NOSED THAT #37 INTO THE LEAD AND KEPT THE GOLD FOR THE HOME BOYS. I DONT WANNA SELL MARTEL SHORT THOUGH BECAUSE HE WAS HELL BENT ON OWNING IT.WOODY PUT THE LOCAL BOYS THROUGH THE WRINGER. RAY MOSES HAD MANY HARD RACES WITH WOODY WHERE WOODY CAME OUT ON TOP A LOT. DAVE SANVILLE PUT SOME GOOD SHOWS ON WITH WOODY ALSO. HE WAS TOUGH I RACED HIM A LOT OF TIMES AND HE DIDNT KNOW WHERE THE LIMIT WAS. WE LOST WOODY TO A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT, JUST BEFORE WE LOST WOODY ,PHILLIP DIED SUUDENLY, AND SHORTLY AFTER THEIR OTHER TEAMMATE WOOFIE GEORGE BROTHER TO BILL GEORGE PASSED AWAY . THE WHOLE TEAM WAS LOST WITHIN A FEW MONTHS. IT WAS VERY SAD TIME BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL GREAT GUYS AND WOODY WASNT DONE WINNING YET. WOODY WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AROUND RUMNEY AND CAANAN RACETRACKS.
