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Title: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: GOAT on June 21, 2026, 08:00:19 PM: The absolute best and worse Chicago drivers. Can only pick one in each category.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Mohawk mac on June 21, 2026, 08:02:39 PM: Joe Anderson

Dwight Banks
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Sweet on June 21, 2026, 08:04:22 PM: Quote from: GOAT on June 21, 2026, 08:00:19 PM
The absolute best and worse Chicago drivers. Can only pick one in each category.
I'd like to chop some Canadian guys up into pieces and drop hem in Chi town, does that count? ngc3

East Coast fella defers to the Outfit guys! ;D
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Bernie Madoff on June 21, 2026, 08:37:26 PM: Dave Magee
Randall Jacobs
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Mrpick5 on June 22, 2026, 12:28:18 AM: Dave Magee the best. Dale Hiteman one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen. Although in his younger years I guess he was adequate.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Meadow Ford on June 22, 2026, 08:40:39 AM: Quote from: Mrpick5 on June 22, 2026, 12:28:18 AM
Dave Magee the best. Dale Hiteman one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen. Although in his younger years I guess he was adequate.
Adequate? Dale?
8,768 wins $70,246,174
Anyone that raced with Dale at Sportsman's Park or more so Maywood would not post something so foolish!
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Bitter Truth on June 22, 2026, 09:53:44 AM: Another Lebanon Raceway Ohio product.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: GOAT on June 22, 2026, 07:41:53 PM: Daryl Buses
Eugene Wazak
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Sweet on June 22, 2026, 08:38:17 PM: Quote from: GOAT on June 22, 2026, 07:41:53 PM
Daryl Buses
Eugene Wazak

Damn bro, you must have stories and a half, those guys were born before WW II ended and started in the biz in the 60's.

The memory on you! ;D
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: GOAT on June 22, 2026, 09:23:37 PM: Daryl Busse was the son of Don Busse who raced in Chicago in the 1950's and 60's. At the time they were the first father and son to win national driving championship's. Daryl was a card. He drove many of hard to stear horses at the fairs and Chicago race tracks. Big boozer but a real nice fella.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: SRP22 on June 22, 2026, 11:58:41 PM: Dave Magee

Eugene Wazak is the winner as the worst.
Clarence Jacobs and Kelton Noble not far behind.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Mrpick5 on June 23, 2026, 03:13:29 AM: Quote from: Meadow Ford on June 22, 2026, 08:40:39 AM
Adequate? Dale?
8,768 wins $70,246,174
Anyone that raced with Dale at Sportsman's Park or more so Maywood would not post something so foolish!
I never raced with or against him. I am just a degenerate gambler who watched and wagered on Balmoral and Maywood since the late 90s till both tracks eventually closed. Obviously he was good before the 90s. But what I saw. He absolutely sucked. The way he urged a horse to go on looked like he was rowing 🚣 a boat across Lake Michigan.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Mohawk mac on June 23, 2026, 04:56:08 PM: Hard to argue with these.

Quote from: SRP22 on June 22, 2026, 11:58:41 PM
Dave Magee

Eugene Wazak is the winner as the worst.
Clarence Jacobs and Kelton Noble not far behind.
Title: Re: Best/Worse drivers
Post by: Mohawk mac on June 23, 2026, 05:09:07 PM: One night at Sportsman's Park I was railbirding between races. Daryl was scoring down a bad actor a few minutes to post. He was having a real hard time controling that beast. As he flew past me he glanced over and chuckled, "Only a few more minutes to wrestle this orangutan!" ;D

Quote from: GOAT on June 22, 2026, 09:23:37 PM
Daryl drove many hard to steer horses at the fairs and Chicago race tracks.