Join Lou Martin behind the camera trackside, on board, and at night for 1978 races at Islip Speedway, a .2 mile (320 meter) oval track on Long Island. Islip hosted a regular calendar of all sorts of short-track race events featuring stock cars, late models, modifieds, midgets and bombers. It was the smallest track to host the NASCAR Grand National Series (1964-1971) and the venue for the first demolition derby in 1958. Built in 1947 on the site of Long Island’s first municipal airport, it was one of more than 40 tracks on the island during its racing heyday. Like many, it succumbed to pressures of development and closed its gates in 1984.
This Islip Speedway clip was donated to the Center by Barbara and Carmello Crisafulli of Brooklyn, New York. They gifted 84 reels of 8mm amateur films shot by their late friend Lou Martin, a regular spectator and enthusiastic fan of short-track racing, of events at Islip and nearby Freeport Speedway during the 1978 season. Funding provided by Tom Schmeh, former curator of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, enabled us to digitize a sampling of footage from this donation. Grainy with age and “home movie” in style, the films provide a lively and intimate glimpse of an era past
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