1983 ASA Silver Creek Racing Series Miller High Life 200 At The Milwaukee Mile

[@randydubin7118]

Man, what a starting grid! So many Cup Champions in this field, it's unbelievable!

[@jamesgentry13]

And no one complained

[@Brooks22n]

I was there ( I grew up 2 Miles from the Track ) , one of the strongest SLM Fields I’ve ever seen

[@irishamerican4558]

What a good race that was. Glad to see Alan get his first big win.

[@robhymers9149]

I miss the ASA series

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Gotta be my favorite field of any stock car race ever. I’m from Milwaukee area and it was damn exciting to me to see local short track jockeys that I watched come up from sportsman ranks like Ed Evans get to race with the best of the best of the best. WHAT A FIELD

[@racermac1988]

This race in particular may be the GREATEST gathering of all-time in terms of talent and later turned legends. Making this field was FRICKEN TOUGH. Like... Cup fields weren't this deep back then.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Michael McIntyre basically it IS a Cup field, they just didn’t know it yet, only in far more visually appealing and competitive rides.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Pearson, Trickle, Wallace as TEAMMATES = SUPERTEAM, the best trio i can remember watchin at the mile since Unser/Leonard/Andretti

[@suprchickn7745]

Great footage of Trickle and these other legends! RIP Dick!

[@xavierandres9875]

I realize I am kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good site to watch newly released tv shows online ?

[@ledgererik2637]

@Xavier Andres i use FlixZone. You can find it by googling =)

[@zanejohn2757]

@Xavier Andres i use flixzone. You can find it on google :)

[@cairomarcellus977]

@Xavier Andres lately I have been using flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

[@BigDale]

Amazing how much power and speed these guys had to work with. short track racing is not the same without all these guys racing anymore!

[@simpleman283]

So many of these drivers have raced at my home track. Pensacola, home of the Snowball Derby.

[@bigd-1-channel514]

This was real racing. Real cars, Real drivers working hard to win. Not the goofy crap NASCAR has turned into of running in packs, segments, or that last lap crash or win mentallity. I used to watch Joe Ruttman race the 1/2 mile banks of Toledo Speedway in the early 70's every week.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

All star announcers to give best possible evaluation of the field

[@christopherlucas4620]

That was CLEAN at the end

[@greggarnette2699]

what a championship lineup

[@jacknapier8774]

They have Mark Martin listed as Mike. Lol. Mark is my driver. Love that dude.

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

Lol, oops. At least the announcer got it right!

[@suprchickn7745]

​@@BlackSmokeDMaxBob Jenkins knew what he was talking about!

[@patrickreynolds3697]

This was my first summer with cable TV. ESPN taped the race over the weekend and then aired on a weeknight prime time telecast, if I remember correctly.

[@michaelleighton3582]

I was at this race Bobby Allison was fast memories.

[@justcheckinoututube]

A great win for Kulwicki. R.I.P.

[@kevinmckenzie7043]

I remember watching this race live on TV. First time I ever heard of Alan Kulwicki.

[@007scallywag]

An incredible field.

[@RebelRocket]

Before my time, but it is crazy seeing the job the flag man had to do before the start of the race.

[@suprchickn7745]

It's a shame that legends Allison, Pearson, Eddy, Wallace and others weren't able to compete at the end but what a field!

[@terrybrown9206]

My favorite driver.

[@taa8431]

Yes, I agree with the last guy. An incredible field.

[@ronwalters8286]

OMG I never knew this race existed on tape!! I have so many stories from this race. Whie visiting a relative in Milwaukee I got to meet Dick Trickle on Fri. at the speedway doing a GoodYear tire test. He said his crew were still asleep at the hotel do me mind helping out. So we changed tires on his car all afternoon while he ran laps, we pulled the tires and Good Year reps. did there thing. When the car pulled in it was under cover on the open truck hauler. He asked the guy I was at the track with who, knew Dick personally and called him Richard, guess what # is on the car....99 he says. Dick lifts the cover over the door and shows the #66 and the Rusty Wallace car. Then he tell's of having to give Junior Hanley's cars back! 😆 I got to meet Big Vic! He was the only crew there, driving the hauler and Dick rode shotgun. Dick bummed smokes from me all afternoon and gave us cold beer out the cooler when they quit for the day. Amazing frekin day for a young race fan like myself then. And Milwaukee and the ASA do the coolest thing before the race. All the drivers come to the fence at the grandstands and sign autographs. I had a bought an 8x10 picture of Dicks car, he signed it " Thanks for the help Ron, Dick Trickle #99".♥ I also got an Alan Kulwicki autograph that same day on the yellow #97 postcard. Alan who??🤣 Did you see thevery biginning of the race where the TV crew interviewd Waltrip starting 2nd, then skipped right over Kulwicki starting 3rd!! 😯 Wow Wow Wow!!! So many important things happened that day. That was over 40 years ago, I am 63 now. I promise you, that day is one of the greatest days of being around race cars in my life! And those two pictures with Trickle's and Kulwicki's autographs are my prize possesions! I was actually searching for a pic that might show Dick Trickle in the #99 Childs Tire car with a big PBR sticker on it. Slim chance I thought, it was a one race deal...as far as I know, did he ever race that paint scheme again? Probably not cause he said they had to scramble to find a car. Wow....I'm so happy I found this...I've got goose bumps and tears.😁🤩

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

Hey, I was probably there that day at 11 or 12 years old!

[@plisskenationbackfromthede3657]

These were the days. I saw asa there in 98 and got to see adam and jimmie. Noone knew who tf jimmie was, i grabbed his autograph only because i spent probably 45 mins of the hour autograph session to get adams, then scrambled to get any others, and jimmie had NOBODY in line lol

[@michaelleighton3582]

Remember kulwicki ran for 97 wlpx radio station.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

I want that Pepsi Challenger hat on Waltrip.

[@irishamerican4558]

2:10:02 Alan may have gotten more than just the trophy.

[@deweygill1973]

I was there. A mile from my house

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Born and raised 2 miles away. 93 rd and Beecher

[@TheMNrailfan227]

Man, imagine living in those houses on the backstretch. You basically have free tickets to watch the race!

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Junior Hanley built Trickle's cars eh? Canadian legend there

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Where were the Illinois boys? Musgrave, Schuler, Musgrave brothers, Kemperman, SHEAR, etc. etc.

[@simpleman283]

1:50:28 here it is, the famous caution flag. Bob had over 4 seconds on these clowns. negated to zero w/stoke of a yellow.

[@tonygeinzer6034]

I feel my biggest Rick Carelli Regret was never seeing him win in Winston Cup as a Driver before he got hurt in 1999. Them V6 Motors are Great, but, they have had a bad habit of being unreliable, namely in IndyCar and they made for great economic motors, and they still do.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

His 96’ Bristol win is on you tube. What a race THAT was

[@reeceslater5472]

shoutout to Dick Trickle 1:40

[@simpleman283]

I can not contain my joy at 1:37:00 Bob was the Sneaker yes i do not like DW

[@julymiller9296]

Before my time but what a line up... And Kulwicki wins!

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I wonder if this was Dave’s only Milwaukee start

[@casey5885]

My moneys on Mike Martin

[@bryonkidder6199]

Flag man has got a pair...lol

[@suprchickn7745]

Good ole Johnny Potts

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I remember thinking that ASA was going to overtake NASCAR and become America’s top stock car series. NASCAR was 5 contenders and a bunch of hanger oners racing in ugly, boxy vehicles. Look at THESE

[@PaperBanjo64]

Wasn't ASA actually bigger than NASCAR up until the 80's? Which is part of why Dick Trickle raced there instead.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@PaperBanjo64 where i come from yes.

[@PaperBanjo64]

@@MrChristopherHaas those drivers weren't unknowns either, everybody knows Dick Trickle, plus a lot of these guys ended up switching to NASCAR, Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Alan Kulwiki, Jay Sauter, I recognized a lot of those names, and yeah those cars are so sleek.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

mark martin, trickle, wallace bros, Senneker brothers, Eddy, Reffners, Shear, Phillips, Butch Miller, Musgrave brothers, Hanley, Marzipfka, Dave Watson,Detjens, Mike Miller, Ruttman, Ray Young, on and on and on. if they had come together then merged with USAC teams then put a schedule out that included Michigan, Milwaukee Mile, Nazereth, Pocono, etc. they would have made soooo much money and put on races where the top 30 entries were potential winners racing sweet looking Camaros, Trans Ams, Mustangs instead of boxy ugly cars in a series where 4-6 teams had any chance to succeed….yeah. still fantasize about it

[@dfuller968]

What trouble was Balough in? Couldn't find anything Googling his name.

[@51jmood]

Drugs

[@jacopman]

Balough was claimed to be involved with drug trafficking or conspiring to do that...….……..stories circulated about his buying a turn key race car with a suit case full of money on the spot (if that was true and I can't confirm that) it of course would attract attention over time...……….shame because Balough was one of the very best and driven to go to the top...…….I believe he did his time and is out now and still involved with racing but not driving that I've seen but of course he's well beyond the age of most drivers nowadays...…….back in the 70's I watched him race weekly for a season at the old Heidelberg raceway in Pgh………...a great shoe in any car.

[@ShortTrackNews]

He came out with a book last year, good reading if you get a chance to pick it up

[@Eibarwoman]

He had ties to Randy Lanier, John Paul Sr and Jr, and other smugglers

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

Way late, but you can also hear hot shoe talk about it on a recent Dale Jr download podcast.

[@SwineBrothers]

a little before my time, are they running v6s here?

[@racermac1988]

Swine Brothers I think by this point, some were experimenting with them... But it wasn't mandatory like it was in the 90s. Back then the rules were very subject and built to where your weekly racers could take the same car and run national events.

[@jacopman]

There were a few but the majority where v-8 with the 180 degree headers giving that higher revving sound and of course really loud because of the bouncing the sound off the old covered roof on the front straight...……….what a great time to have been a race fan in the Midwest to see this kind of field on a mile track.

[@danbelliveau2550]

Sounds like it

[@josephbevacqua9217]

what Silver Creek Racing

[@terrybrown9206]

DW

[@youknoweverything7643]

Crazzy thing is rusty Wallace would write bad checks and this old man would crash them and not deposit them until they came back home with theoney from these races toake the check good. The guys that had to really grind hard and use re ground crankshafts and used parts and do what ever they could to win and worked out of a very very small tiny single car garage they rented and was beating all these guys with bare minimum. This is back when drivers and latemodel drivers was real men and not spoiled 12 year old kids who wreck half the field with 100k dollar plus haulers in hopes to make it to nascar these guys used bare minimum alot of them was. This was back when tracks would pack out like nascar cup races to watch lateodel races unlike today when latemodels run here stands empty and it's 20 cars racing Infront of no crowd or fans. Crazzy part is I'm 30 and I have raced latemodels with Garry balough, and Dave Madar the third was part of the NASCAR Alabama gang, Mike Garvey I know very well, red farmer still races dirt latemodel and asphalt latemodels. Now a days if flag man stood on track Infront of latemodels like he did to tell cars to split and go two wide they would get hit by some dumb kid that is 12 playing with his belts or texting and tweeting and snapchating under caution. And the reason why dirt modifieds and asphalt non wheeler modifieds look like the way they do is due to Garry balough and his innovative batmobile car that he showed up with and qualified on the pole and everyone went back to their cars to try and copy what he did on the fly and he ended up lapping the whole field and winning cuse of his new aerodynamic design that made car stable and forced more air into the air intake and filter to make more horsepower

[@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113]

"All the Same Association", is more accurate.

[@007scallywag]

An all star field for sure. Too bad the jerk that killed Larry Detjens won.

[@earnhardt3613]

WHO is larry detjens ?????

[@the_road__warrior6185]

Jeff Young He was another up & comer from Wisconsin too I think, in the lower ranked series. I forget what year but Detjens & A.K. We’re battling hard for the lead & they made contact. Some say Detjens came down, Others obviously feel A.K. Turned Detjens. It was an unfortunate accident none the less.

[@the_road__warrior6185]

Jeff Young Larry was a good driver too, who knows how far he’d gone.

[@pumpkinking5174]

You are probably one of the morons that blame Marlin for Dale's death.

[@RC.41]

Alan must have dedicated his whole life to that guy, all the way to winning the Winston Cup Championship