RENSSELAER RACEWAY PHOTO SCRAPBOOK #2
TWO TEDS—Hobart’s Ted
Schroeder was a consistent top runner and won the 1960 track title. Track
promoter Ted Knorr had just given Schroeder an award after one of his wins.
Both Schroeder and Knorr are gone now, but they are not forgotten by the fans of
the fairgrounds track.
(Wayne Bryant Photo/Ted Knorr Collection)
Larry Danford of Monticello
was one of the original drivers at the track. The veteran racer started with
the coupes in 1956 and won the track’s 1971 late model crown. Danford, shown in
this 1960 picture, would be killed in a farming accident near Monticello in the
1990’s.
(Wayne Bryant Photo/Ted Knorr Collection)
TWO CHAMPIONS—Multiple track
champion Ralph Luse battle Hedy Honn of Brook into turn one. Honn would drive
his big Packard #82 to Rensselaer’s 1961 and 1962 titles.
(Wayne
Bryant Photo/Ted Knorr Collection)
Rensselaer’s George Wood
poses with the checkered flag in this 1959 shot. Tragically, Wood would lose
his life in a multiple rollover accident on the backstretch on the fairgrounds
clay on July 4th, 1963.
(Wayne Bryant Photo/Ted Knorr
Collection)
Dave Whitcomb took the
Rensselaer title in 1963 and went on to race in the stock car division of USAC.
The Valparaiso garage owner won a couple of USAC events before retiring. He
passed away on November 1, 2004.
(John Lutzo Photo)
Larry Cope - 1964
(Wayne Bryant Photo / Tedd Knorr Collection)