Saugus Speedway scoreboard circles back to Santa Clarita History Center

The Saugus Speedway scoreboard is making its way back home to the Santa Clarita History Center at Hart Park after the Valley Relics Museum in Van Nuys acquired it in 2017. The famed Saugus Speedway had its last race on the track in 1995. Leon Worden, a local historian and site manager of the History Center, which is operated by the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, said the History Center began collecting artifacts of the speedway over the summer. The former speedway site is being replaced by a new mixed-use development. “We recovered all of the big, heavy artifacts that were left at the Saugus Speedway, including the main entry sign and the signage around the track, including one of the 90-foot-long sign sections that said Saugus Speedway, and many other things,” Worden said. Worden said that the speedway meant a lot to people in the SCV and San Fernando Valley during its prime. “It’s a connection for a lot of people; it’s a connection to their youth. And I think that is, I think, well . it’s meaningful on a personal level to a lot of people,” Worden said. “This year, the Saugus Speedway is the No. 1 thing that our visitors talk about and ask about.” When asked what it feels like for the History Center to get the scoreboard back, Worden said it was “icing on the cake.” “The Saugus scoreboard is 24 feet long and 9 feet high. And just so you know, we’re looking at receiving it. We received donations from the community to cover Valley Relics’ own expenses. But we’re looking at doing this over the course of the next few months,” Worden said about when the nonprofit organization will have the scoreboard. Jim Insolo, a former race car driver who raced on the speedway, recalled one of his first memories of being at the track. “I kind of was working on a guy’s car before I ever raced. And I asked him if I could drive his car in one of the heat races, hoping that he would say no after I’d asked him,” Insolo said. “And he says, ‘Go ahead,’ so then I kind of had my foot in my mouth, and I had to go ahead and do it then and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.” Insolo said the experience made him want to pursue it as a career. “The thrill of the whole thing, you know what I mean? And out there with all those other cars and trying to be the best and win the race if you could. And it was just, there was just so many things about it, the highs and the lows of it all,” Insolo said. Insolo said it was very cool for the History Center to preserve the artifacts, so it keeps the speedway’s memory alive. “It’s a neat deal they’re doing that, so the younger people that didn’t really ever know it as a racetrack, you know, for being able to see what it was all about,” Insolo said. “They had those kind of whatever they’re going to build over there now, and you would never know it was a racetrack when you drive by there now. And it’s to keep that history alive of that racetrack.”.
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