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Article: Path of generations: family ties fuel Bandimore Speedway. (Family Owned 2003).
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- February 1, 2003
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Bandimore Speedway is a Colorado landmark, its grandstands rising against the hillside known as the Dakota Hogback at Morrison Road and C-470.
Amid ear-splitting, high-speed machines rocketing down the quarter-mile asphalt stretch and the smells of fuel and burning rubber, the Bandimere family has been the human force behind the raceway for three generations. John Bandimere Sr. built the track in 1958 to give manufacturers a place to test their new products, to boost sales at his auto parts Business, but most of all to give young people a safe place to drag race. The track was passed clown to John Bandimere Jr. in 1970, and in 1998 John Bandimere III took over ...
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
July 18, 2002 ;
700+ words
...Top Fuel KENNY BERNSTEIN: This is the farewell tour of one of the sport's icons, and he appears to be going out in style. A five-time NHRA champion, Bernstein comes into Denver second in points. His third of three wins at Bandimere was in 1992 in Top Fuel. He was the first driver to go faster than
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