Dick Mahoney
Dick first got involved in oval track racing as a cornerman at Sutton Speedway. Dick would work in exchange for free admission. At 15 in 1961 he bought a forty seven coupe for $75.00. Money his grandmother left him. Because he was only 15, he had to get friends to tow his car and let them drive once in a while.
As a young man, Dick would often hitch a ride to Pinecrest Speedway. Dick would ride to Pinecrest in the race car on the back of a ramp truck as there was no room in the cab.
One of the pictures he shows is with a guest driver when it was dirt. Ed Bell and Ivan Moore were also in the pictures.
Dick moved up to the B modifidies in 1963 and totalled the first one in Sutton, it was replaced with a Carconi chassis.
It was in 1965 that Dick raced Red Trimble’s car at Sutton the throddle stuck and it was destroyed, so he replaced it with his own car renumbered.
Dick drove for various owners back in 1966.
Bob Van had the bad boy car. Bob asked Dick to drive for him the following year but a truck accident put Dick out of commission for quite sometime.
The urge to race again came back in 1981,that’s when Dick started with the Can-Am Midget Racing Club. Dick raced in the Can Am Midget Club for approximately 15 years.
In 1996 he drove a partial schedule at Mosport oval track in an asphalt Modified.
Dick started with the Southern Ontario Sprints and won the rookie of the year back in 1998.
Around 2015 he got into non wing Ontario Topless Sprints in ontario and MTS,BOSS, and USAC in the USA.
In the past few years he has had to put a driver behind the wheel because of back problems.
He has acquired a 1989 OZCAR Silver Crown and restored it, and hoping to show it off at the track somewhere next year.He still has his USAC 410 and hope to be in competition next year.that will be his 7th decade.
He was Vice President of SOS and before that, he was on the SOS board. He raced midget and sprint cars with his son, also raced at Lancaster New York
His time in the US racing sprint cars, he competed against the best of the best and it was a humbling experience.
He was also written up in The Toronto Star by Norris McDonald, full page articles on both occasions .
75 Year Old Racer Has Bought Himself Another Car…
