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Last Race Ever

Published May 30th, 2004

Carlsbad: Home of the USGP, SuperBikers, thousands of local races, and lots of memories

Typical of the baked adobe hills and the chaparral brush of southern California, historic Carlsbad Raceway has run it’s last race – over 40 years of racing. Population growth and commercial building have done it in.

Certain words and phrases come to mind if you grew up around motocross during it’s heyday: United States Grand Prix. Annual. Father’s Day. 500cc. Bel Ray. Hang Ten. The Freeway. The Ledge. Rattlesnake Gulch. ABC Wide World of Sports. De Coster. Lackey. Mikkola. Wolsink. Moates. Johnson. Glover. Bailey. Ward. Blue groove. CMC. Commotion by the Ocean. Superbikers. And thousands of local races.

It’s over now.

Click on the thumbails to see the larger images. Special thanks to Scott Cox/Resource Marketing, and Hap Spoons II.

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Helmet cam, Rolf Tibblin, Mark Blackwell (1974)

Roger De Coster

Gerrit Wolsink

SuperBikers – Rick Johnson leads Kent Howerton and Broc Glover in the final corner

45,000 people packed the hillsides in the 70′s

These are the last folks to be at Carlsbad, August 8, 2004

Dirt Trackers heat in the SuperBikers

The last riders meeting, ever

Sam Posey gets ready to interview Broc Glover

Broc Glover – SuperBikers pavement action

Broc Glover

The Rhinestone Cowboy and RJ get after it in SuperBikers

Pierra Karsmakers leads Gerrit Wolsink into Rattlesnake Gulch

Brad Lackey

Marty Moates, Pat Cox & Gavin Trippe. Marty won the USGP in 1980. Pat knows Hap Spoons II, and Gavin was responsible for the USGP and SuperBikers and other things