“REMEMBERING SADDLEBACK PARK” VIDEO: THE HEART BEAT OF AMERICAN MOTOCROSS

If you were hot shot racer in the 1970s and 1980s, you lived to race at Saddleback Park. It was the place to be and to be seen. Unknown riders became “known overnight” by just racing Saddleback on Saturday and Sunday. All the stars raced at Saddleback, because back in the “good old days,” the stars raced locally on their weekends off. Saddleback was open every day of the week, the rock-hard blue-groove dirt presented all the challenges in the world. If you could win at Saddlebck, everything else (mud, loam, rocks) seemed easy. Sit back and enjoy this Gary Bailey and Vic Wilson film. And, yes the track really was that dry, dusty and hard-packed on race day.